Si estan de vuelta, Nuno, Gary y Pat con un nuevo baterista, este nuevo disco es arrechisimo, no lo quiero comparar con los discos anteriores, solo les digo que es el mismo sonido y estilo de siempre, bien funky y con mucha guitarra de cabo a rabo. Que alegria verlos de nuevo de vuelta, definitivamente nuno no defrauda. Bajen esta verga aqui y mas nada.

NUNO RULES!!!

Confortably Dumb

Redacção O JORNAL: O arqueiro português Nuno Pombo ficou apurado nas provas olímpicas de sábado.

Segundo as tabelas de tiro com arco dos Jogos Olímpicos de Pequim, o nosso arqueiro Nuno Pombo ficou apurado, sendo o primeiro de todos os atiradores da selecção olímpica portuguesa a conseguir apuramento, neste caso na classe de Tiro com Arco, modalidade em que se encontra a competir sózinho.

O apuramento permite-lhe competir na fase seguinte, Ronda de 64.

Nuno Pombo conseguiu ficar apurado, completando a fase de apuramento com 650 pontos, ficando assim na 42ª posição da tabela classificativa.

A próxima ronda é dura de roer, pois Nuno Pombo terá que enfrentar Yusuf Ergin, arqueiro da Turquia.

Não é das listas das zebras nem pouco mais ou menos. Mas não há ninguém que não goste de ler ou ouvir um artigo que seleccione "os melhores 10" ou "os piores 10". Neste sentido, ouvi hoje a caminho do trabalho, na antena 3, a lista que o sítio "Spinner.com" divulgou com as piores 10 músicas. Como não consegui ouvir o número 1, fui ao blog do Nuno Markl "roubar" o artigo que diz assim:

"Eis a lista das 10 piores de sempre, cuidadosamente compilada pelos editores da Spinner e da AOL Radio. A mim parece-me uma fina selecção! E sim, custa-me ver o Paul McCartney e o Stevie Wonder ali no meio, mas quem lhes mandou fazer o Ebony and Ivory? Agora aguentem-se à bronca.

1. Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men
2. Ice, Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
3. She Bangs - Ricky Martin
4. Barbie Girl - Aqua
5. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
6. I Am Woman - Helen Redey
7. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
8. Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
9. Macarena - Los Del Rio
10. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion".

Empolgado com o tema "listas" fiz uma busca e encontrei o sítio "Toxel" que tb parece gostar de apresentar as coisas através de números e publico aqui as melhores listas que estão lá publicadas. Enjoy.

It is very interesting keeping tabs on the different searches people do to get to this blog and something that comes up time and time again is nuno felting.  Obviously there is great interest in this technique so I am just going to post a picture of a piece I made recently for everyone to see.  The silk fabric that I used was from the sari loom ends I had ordered from Essential Textile Art in Australia a little while ago and I must say that it was a pleasure to work with.  I have been debating whether to add a few beads or embellishments as highlights but have not actually made my mind up yet as the  end piece is beautiful just as it is!  Sewing is one of my all time pet hates (even adding a few beads!) and I am really trying to get over myself on this issiue.  Recently I joined several groups on Flickr and have just signed up to make a bag on 'bag ladies swap' , check out the discussions on this group and maybe some of you will want to join, if seems GREAT FUN!!  sorry that this post is really short, I will be back in full swing next week as soon as the Irish Green Gathering is wrapped up.

Thanks Fleur & Sam for letting me do this and I hope you enjoy the results!

more pictures can be found here

I decided to make a vessel and incorporate some of the scrim that I waxed and dyed last week at the batik course in Grennan Craft Mill.  The fabric had taken the dye really well and was a pleasure to work with yesterday.  Later in the week I am going to try nuno felting a larger piece of this scrim and use less wool, I expect to get a highly textured fabric for my end result.

This coming weekend I have been luck enough to be picked by lottery to attend a sculptural weekend course in Dublin with Australian feltmaker Anita Larkin.  This weekend is organised by the Feltmakers Federation and should be a really fun time, as well as a great opportunity to pick up some new skills.

More than fifteen years ago when we arrived here to the harbour in Vila Real de Santo António,
we fell in love.
Have you ever heard us telling our boat-stories?!
Well, when we tell stories about boats we have met, I tend to mention my first and biggest boat-love.
And then Nuno describe all the technical details, while I just have a dreamy look.
I don't even remember or know her name, but I have never forgot her, and she has been mine the-ultimate-boat. A beauty! Steel-hull and a lot of carved wood-details. Like a pirate-ship.
Like a minature of the ships in my childhood favourite film The Crimson Pirate with my childhood love Burt Lancaster (..another end of a love-story in my life...)!

She was caught with her crew for smuggling, and stuck in decay because of bureaucracy when we met her. Love at first sight. And we didn't have the means.. Not in anyway. She was supposed to be sold in auction. But when?

So many times I wondered about her. Thinking about what it would be like if we had bought her. Wondering what happened with her..

We have passed some great great time here around Guadiana now since midsummer, and a week together with our very large Portuguese family. All of us finding new and old dear friends (extra love to Sonia, Nelson, Alana and Lucas). Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of photos later we have arrived here to Vila Real de Santo António again, after more than fifteen years.

When we passed by the old harbour out in the river,
Nuno thought he saw the mast of our old love.
IN RUINS

We went to look for her together yesterday, me and Nuno.
The whole area on the way to there is falling apart.

The big old tin-fabric is in ruins.
The sun was already touching the horizon.
Stray dogs everywhere barking at us.
I like ruins. I find beauty in them.

My hope to see her again was growing together with the fear of finding her in pieces.
We passed by some ship-wrecks, and I was all elated to find HER waiting,
soon behind those wrecks, (we could see a mast, but we couldn't be sure yet).

Soon. Just some more meters and we would know.
She wasn't in the same place anymore. But;
It was her! And it was sad and upsetting! She was dead or dying!
If I was at home in my studio now, I could scan my old photos of her and show you how she looked fifteen years ago. So much beautiful wood-details she had. She was my dream-boat!..........
Now; a poor wreck...!
The low-tide had left her naked with water dripping out of her, waiting to be filled again with the next high-tide, and I stepped out in the water to come close to her again - all full of emotions.
My love and the end of her life:

..And we never got to know her name..

The end of her.
The end of this journey so soon.
Today Tassa, Tiago and Spirit left us to pass a week with their family here;
while Nuno and I'll sail Siska to Faro where we'll take down the mast, lift her up on land, and prepare her for a truck-journey home through Europe to Sweden.
Honeymoon.
Today was the first time in seventeen years together that we went alone - J+N / N+J - to a restaurant and accompanied with the food ordered a bottle of wine for us. We realized how incredible it was that we had never made this before..!

Not the end we had dreamt about,
yet; full of desires for letting the end be
only a continuation,
a passage towards new beginnings.

Best wishes, and huge greatfullness,
from Jenny and Nuno feeling honey and moon in Siska,
- maybe eight years away from a future world around cruising
with a bigger sailboat, and grown up children..?

(Iknow it sounds like goodbye when I´m writing. I'm just processing the end, but we

This week I am on an excellent batik course at the Grennan Craft Mill in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny.  Facilitated by Alexandra Meldrew, our diverse group are basically having a crash course in different techniques and applications of this facinating craft.  My idea was that after the week, skill peremitting, I would be able to incorporate some of my pieces into some nuno felt work.  Here is a selection of my work in progress.

The fabric that we are working with is quite tightly woven so I have waxed and dipped on a piece of scrim today to see what that will turn out like, just realised that I left it in the bucket of dye when I finished this evening!!  I find that scrim is great to nuno felt with so hopefully this experiment will work out and I can have fun next week incorporating it into some bags or vessels.

Tomorrow I am going to bring along a couple of white silk scarves which I got from Wollknoll, I am intending on waxing them with simple designs and dipping in just one colour of dye.  I probably will keep one as is and then use the others in pieces of felt as well, will just wait and see how I feel next week.

Needless to say I just had to get stuck in immediately to some felting.  I decided to use one of the sari loom ends and a sari ribbon to create a beautiful long wall hanging in nuno felt.  This is really a piece that needs to be lit from behind to fully appreciate the textures and I think that I need to experiment with a simple light box and see how this works for me.  I promise to post a picture on this blog as soon as I have mastered the concept! 

Masih tertinggal bayanganmu
yang telah membekas di relung hatiku
hujan tanpa henti seolah pertanda
cinta tak di sini lagi
kau tlah berpaling

Biarkan aku menjaga perasaan ini, ohh
menjaga segenap cinta yang telah kau beri
engkau pergi, aku takkan pergi
kau menjauh, aku takkan jauh
sebenarnya diriku masih mengharapkanmu

Masih adakah cahaya rindumu
yang dulu selalu cerminkan hatimu
aku takkan bisa menghapus dirimu
meski ku lihat kini
kau di seberang sana

Andai akhirnya
kau tak juga kembali
aku tetap sendiri
menjaga hati

Sejujurnya diriku masih mengharapkanmu

Carmen lent me her sander (yes a Black and Decker sander) and I have been playing around with it at the early stages of the felt making process.  You need to be careful to have a light sheet of plastic between you and the fibres, otherwise the holes in the plate of the sander will suck up the wool or silk.  Last night I made a Nuno felt scarf and also tried to use some prefelt cutouts on top of Bheda wool, a course wool that felts really well.  The prefelts were not make from 100% wool and the sander definitely helped to secure them into the feltmaking process.  Will keep you updated.

O Sporting derrotou hoje o Porto na final da Taça de Portugal e sagrou-se campeão com dois golos marcados já durante o período de prolongamento. O avançado brasileiro Tiuí bisou, com um primeiro golo aos 110 minutos e um segundo sete minutos mais tarde, com um pontapé de bicicleta.

Os leões conquistaram, assim, o prémio pela segunda vez consecutiva, ao vencer o FC Porto por 2-0, depois de um empate sem golos no tempo regulamentar. Os "leões" garantiram assim o segundo troféu da época, depois de terem conquistado a Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, também frente ao FC Porto, e perdido a Taça da Liga, para o Vitória do Setúbal.

O encontro foi decidido na segunda parte do prolongamento com dois golos do avançado brasileiro Rodrigo Tiuí, aos 110 e 117 minutos, numa altura em que o FC Porto jogava em inferioridade numérica, após expulsão de João Paulo (71).

Depois de no ano passado ter derrotado na final do Jamor o Belenenses, por 1-0, o Sporting garantiu hoje a 15ª Taça de Portugal do seu historial, a segunda conquistada sob o comando técnico de Paulo Bento.

O FC Porto, tricampeão nacional, falhou assim a conquista da sexta "dobradinha" do seu historial, feito que conseguiu pela última vez em 2005/2006 sob o comando técnico do holandês Co Adriaanse.

Os 90 minutos de jogo não foram suficientes para nenhuma das duas equipas finalistas da Taça de Portugal marcasse golo. O encontro chegou ao intervalo empatado a zero. Os leões criaram mais perigo, tendo Romagnoli, depois de uma jogada com Izmailov, chegado mesmo a marcar, mas o lance foi anulado por alegado fora de jogo do camisola 30.

Aos 70 minutos o árbitro Olegário Benquerença mostrou cartão vermelho a João Paulo, do FC Porto, por uma entrada a pés juntos sobre João Moutinho, tendo a equipa passado a jogar apenas com dez membros.

O encontro contou com a presença do Presidente da República, Cavaco Silva, assim como dos ministros da Presidência, Pedro Silva Pereira, da Economia, Manuel Pinho, dos Assuntos Parlamentares, Augusto Santos Silva, e do secretário de Estado da Juventude e Desporto, Laurentino Dias.

Equipas

Sporting: Rui Patrício, Abel (Tiuí, 91) Tonel, Polga, Grimi, Miguel Veloso, João Moutinho, Izmailov (Pereirinha, 76), Romagnoli, Derlei (Gladstone, 116) e Yannick Djaló. (Suplentes: Tiago, Ronny, Gladstone, Farnerud, Pereirinha, Vukcevic e Tiuí).

FC Porto: Nuno, Fucile, Pedro Emanuel, Bruno Alves, João Paulo, Paulo Assunção (Tarik Sekitoui, 112), Raul Meireles (Kazmierczak, 104), Lucho Gonzalez, Mariano (Lino, 79), Ricardo Quaresma e Lisandro Lopez. (Suplentes: Ventura, Lino, Stepanov, Bolatti, Kazmierczak, Tarik Sekitoui e Farias).

Árbitro: Olegário Benquerença (Leiria).

Acção disciplinar: Cartão amarelo para Paulo Assunção (36), Abel (54), Raul Meireles (96), Derlei (101), Lucho Gonzalez (112). Vermelho directo para João Paulo (71).

Assistência: 37.600 espectadores.

masih tertinggal bayanganmu
yang telah membekas di relung hatiku
hujan tanpa henti seolah bertanda
cinta tak disini lagi kau telah berpaling

REFF:
biarkan aku menjaga perasaan ini
menjaga segenap cinta yang telah kau beri
engkau pergi aku takkan pergi
kau menjauh aku takkan jauh
sebenarnya diriku masih mengharapkanmu
ooh oooh

masih adakah cahaya rindumu
yang dulu selalu cerminkan hatimu
aku takkan bisa menghapus dirimu
meski kulihat kini kau diseberang sana

REFF

andai akhirnya kau tak juga kembali
aku tetap sendiri menjaga hati

REFF 2x

sejujurnya ak masih mengharapkanmu
oooh ooohh

lagu neh layan siot... nak² yang ngah sengal cam aku neh.. muahahaha...

It Vivid and Brilliant voice, such kind of mellow but ( even though some times it felt somewhat not really my type ) make me compell. Especially with the next titles : Menjaga Hati, Dia Miliku and of coz Janji Suci

[ Once again I said that I'm not in Love ]

Any way my special thanks to Yovie 'n Nuno. You just made my day ( and perhaps ... )

... jangan kau tolak dan buatku hancur

... ku tak akan mengulang tuk meminta

... satu keyakinan hatiku ini

... akulah yang tak baik untukmu

[ Don't squash me out and make me fall down ...I 'd never ask you one more ...dats one my heart as sure ...I'm definitely worse for you ]

Semula ku tak tahu
Engkau juga tlah ingin memilikinya
Bukankah ‘ku lebih dulu
Bila engkau temanku
Sebaiknya tak mengganggu

Dia untukku bukan untukmu
Dia milikku bukan milikmu
Pergilah kamu jangan kau ganggu
Biarkan aku mendekatinya

Kamu tak akan mungkin
Mendapatkannya
Karena dia berikan aku
pertanda cinta
Janganlah kamu banyak bermimpi

Dia untuk aku bukankah belum pasti
Kamu juga kan jadi dengan dirinya
Dia yang menentukan
Apa yang kan terjadi
Tak usah mengaturku

Dia untukku bukan untukmu
Dia milikku bukan milikmu
Lihatlah nanti lihatlah saja
Biarkan aku mendekatinya

Kamu tak akan mungkin
Mendapatkannya
Karena dia berikan aku
pertanda cinta
Janganlah kamu banyak bermimpi

Kusarankan engkau mundur saja

Dia untukku bukan untukmu
Dia milikku bukan milikmu
Pergilah kamu jangan kau ganggu
Biarkan aku mendekatinya

Kamu tak akan mungkin
Mendapatkannya
Karena dia berikan aku
pertanda cinta
Janganlah kamu banyak bermimpi

Dia untukku bukan untukmu
Dia milikku Bukan milikmu
Lihatlah nanti Lihatlah saja
Biarkan aku Mendekatinya

Kamu tak akan mungkin
Mendapatkannya
Karena dia berikan aku
pertanda cinta
Janganlah kamu banyak bermimpi

Dia untuk aku
Bukan
Dia untuk aku

We are in Almeria. A very nice town here in the south of Spain. Nice and cheap harbour with free internet.
We have been here now 5 days, as the winds have been incredibly strong and from where we want to go. Hopefully on Monday we will move on, but according to the weather sites we consult we won't go very much further the following days... too much wind again.
During this trip we have been having a lot of bad weather but also beautiful moments.

Here is one of that beautiful moments.

Love to u all,

The Kaptain

A equipa dos Africans não é apontada como favorita para o encontro de amanhã, mas sabemos de fonte segura que o adversário tem vindo a perder força nos últimos anos, de maneira que o nosso conjunto passará rapidamente de não favoritos a primeira equipa apurada para a final-four da competição.

Texto por: Miguel Machado

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