[USA] Happy Halloween!

Live from Redmond, Washington, Jack wishes everyone a great Halloween!

[USA] Mount Rainier

If back in Portugal someone told me that a mountain located far away in Beja could be clearly seen standing out in the horizon view from Lisbon, I would have a very hard time believing it. Mount Rainier is just that fantasy monolith, standing grandly in Seattle's horizon, about 150km away.

[USA] Northwest fall

Usually I would not post pictures of "pretty trees"...but hey, my new lens turned me upside down. Even got me shooting the fall, is it redefining my photography path?

(mental note: I just realized that I'm being dominated by a piece of glass...)

[USA] taking the "baby" to the woods

My new baby loves the woods, and the woods love her back. (thanks Paulo for the awkward shot)

what do you think?

[USA] Did I mention that I miss home?

Saturday night, home with Jesus, missing home with a newly arrived babylens and drunk :)

Oh...forgot to mention, also with a few too many cotton swabs.

[USA] Start wearing purple for me now...

Chicago...had a fierce pioneer gaiety that enlivened the senses, yet underlying it throbbed masculine loneliness. Counteracting this somatic ailment was a national distraction known as the burlesque show, consisting of a coterie of rough-and-tumble comedians supported by twenty or more chorus girls. Some were pretty, others shopworn. Some of the comedians were funny, most of the shows were smutty harem comedies—coarse and cynical affairs.

—Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography: 125–6

I didn't know anything about Burlesque before coming to the US...what a surprise I was in for!

Under the sheets of surgically clean main-stream pop, boring Indie and other pseudo-alternative trends lurks this ancient-feeling cabaresque art form, looking both démodé and utterly defying main-stream tendencies.

After reading Burlesque's history, I found that the current form little has to do with the plays of the 1800's . Now they even included klezmeresque music from the balkans...enjoy.

Sinner Saint Burlesque ... at the sound of "Start Wearing Purple":

[USA] Extreme home sickness

I miss all of this so much...