March 2011
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±’s EGO SUM PANIS VIVUS, shot March 23rd 2011, the day the Portuguese PM resigned.
A little context: amidst the uproar about further austerity measures, someone at the Finance Ministry thought a consumer tax cut (from 23% to 6%) on golf equipment would be just what our economy needed. It’d turn out to be one of the last Moments of Zen from our government.
However, given that for...
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Put simply, we’d rather stay home, and movies are made for people...
– The Day the Movies Died - a gripping read about the sad state of film production in the US everywhere. It’s easy to blame greedy philistine producers, but the truth is most grown-up audiences rather stay home watching Mad Men - quality audio-visual time indeed, but part of a vicious circle...