© Angela M. Lobefaro
Lisbon - Portugal
Amália da Piedade Rodrigues, GCSE, GCIH, (July 23, 1920 – October 6, 1999), also known as Amália Rodrigues (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈmaliɐ ʁuˈdɾiɡɨʃ]) was a Portuguese singer and also actress. Despite official documents which give her date of birth as July 23, Rodrigues always said her birthday was July 1, 1920 [1]. She was born in Lisbon, in the rua Martim Vaz (Martim Vaz Street), neighborhood of Pena. Her father was a trumpet player and cobbler from Fundão who returned there when Amália was just over a year old, leaving her to live in Lisbon with her maternal grandmother in a deeply Catholic environment until she was 14, when her parents returned to the capital and she moved back in with them.
She was known as the "Rainha do Fado" ("Queen of Fado") and was most influential in popularizing the fado worldwide. In fact, she was one of the most important figures in the genre’s development, and enjoyed a 40-year recording and stage career. Rodrigues' performances and choice of repertoire pushed fado’s boundaries and helped redefine it and reconfigure it for her and subsequent generations. In effect, Rodrigues wrote the rulebook on what fado could be and on how a female fadista — or fado singer — should perform it, to the extent that she remains an unsurpassable model and an unending source of repertoire for all those who came afterwards. Rodrigues enjoyed an extensive international career between the 1950s and the 1970s, although in an era where such efforts were not as easily quantified as today. Other well-known international fado artists such as Madredeus, Dulce Pontes and Mariza have come close, however.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A1lia_Rodrigues
26 March, 2010
Rainha Do Fado
25 March, 2010
Ruins of the Carmo Convent
© Angela M. Lobefaro
Ruins of the Carmo Convent
( Convento da Ordem do Carmo ) - Lisbon - Portugal
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24 March, 2010
Beauty and The Beast
© Angela M. Lobefaro
a snapshot from a professional shooting in Bairro Alto
Lisbon - Portugal
On The Lisbon Waterfront
© Angela M. Lobefaro
Il porto di Lisbona con il ponte Alcantara visti dal Castel San George
Lisbon - Portugal
23 March, 2010
Six Degrees Of Separation
© Angela M. Lobefaro
Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth. It was popularized by a play written by John Guare.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
Oriente Station - Lisbon
www.golisbon.com/sight-seeing/oriente-station.html
High Culture or Culture from Above ?
© Angela M. Lobefaro
Oriente Station - Lisbon
www.golisbon.com/sight-seeing/oriente-station.html
22 March, 2010
16 March, 2010
14 March, 2010
Looking at old Things in New Ways
© Angela M. Lobefaro
RIcetto di Candelo
Ricetto (RECEPTUM)
Between the most meaningful and beautiful European Fortified Receptum.
Fortified construction built as village, building plan dated 1160 a.d.
built from the people of Candelo from 1300 till beginning of 1400 a.d.
Used as "Receptum" fortified village to hide, in was times, and as a food storage location in peace times.
These walls were constructed with stones from the local streams.
In this mediaeval village many movies have been filmed.
Candelo, Biella, Piedmont, Italy
5 km from where I live
www.piemonte-emozioni.it/comuni/eng/candelo.shtml
Nel cuore della Biella medievale
Qui sono state girate per esempio le puntatate della "Freccia Nera" 1 e 2, e molti altri films.
I Ricetti, originali, in Italia sono molto rari, piu' info le forniro' in seguito con le altre foto...
comunque qui c'e' un link: www.atl.biella.it/arte/ricetto/ricetto.html
11 March, 2010
Flickr Stats & Couchdb
Flickrstats monthly search terms count
Flickrstats montly search terms distribution
Flickrstats monthly fields
Recently Flickr published the historical referrer data, and I fell in love with Couchdb, so making a long story short I've downloaded all the csv files from 2007 to 2010 and I put them into a database.
Now I'm wondering about which queries code first . Can you help me ?
I've made great findings digging into what people search when stumble on my stream.
Thanks
Angela & Max
03 March, 2010
Wave Couch
©Angela M. Lobefaro
Playing on the beach in Ko Chang - Thailand
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