Vânia | 
09 29th, 2009| 
No próximo Domingo dia 4 de Outubro (dia do Animal) o Grupo de Voluntários de Cascais vais estar em Cascais e na Parede a divulgar o seu trabalho. Aparece! =)
Mais info em grupovoluntarios.org
Sep
10
9 estreou ontem lá fora. Estou ansiosa para que chegue cá, mas se é para fazer como com o Coraline e Up! e só haver a versão portuguesa, mais vale esperar que saia em DVD e comprar. Sim, porque andei à procura de salas que tivessem a versão original e não encontrei nem uma para ambos. É triste. Mas pronto, se alguém souber duma que me tenha escapado, por favor digam-me (ainda vou a tempo de ver o Up! no grande ecrã).
Sep
6
Chamam-no de “o suicídio mais bonito”. Não acho que algum o seja, mas a serenidade da expressão dela é surpreendente.
(O resto está em inglês. Estou demasiado preguiçosa para traduzir ^^ )
« On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death
The serenity of McHale’s body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles’ photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body)
The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure.
From McHale’s NY Times obituary, Empire State Ends Life of Girl, 20:
At 10:40 A. M., Patrolman John Morrissey of Traffic C, directing traffic at Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, noticed a swirling white scarf floating down from the upper floors of the Empire State. A moment later he heard a crash that sounded like an explosion. He saw a crowd converge in Thirty-third Street.
Two hundred feet west of Fifth Avenue, Miss McHale’s body landed atop the car. The impact stove in the metal roof and shattered the car’s windows. The driver was in a near-by drug store, thereby escaping death or serious injury.
On the observation deck, Detective Frank Murray of the West Thirtieth Street station, found Miss McHale’s gray cloth coat, her pocketbook with several dollars and the note, and a make-up kit filled with family pictures.
(…)Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles’ photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body)»
Tirado daqui: kottke.org
