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2009/02/27

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

2008/12/08

Charlie Rose - An hour with Michael Crichton

2008/04/22

Altitudes

Doca seca de Belém 20080422

Altitudes na doca seca de Belém - 20080422

2008/01/17

Altitude uCI Demo

http://www.synchrolab.com/easyphone/demotv/altitude_uci/richmedia/

2008/01/15

Passeio no Altitudes no Tejo 20080112

Passeámos no Tejo no Altitudes. Fomos até Belém, onde decorria uma regata.
Dia óptimo, embora um pouco frio. Beatriz e Bernardo tomaram o leme, como fica aqui documentado.

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Bea ao leme do Altitudes

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Bernardo ao leme do Altitudes

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2007/12/02

Tagaytay (60 km a Sul de Manila) 20071202

Tagaytay - Lago e vulcão Taal

Manila - Jeepneys e Tricycles

Jeepneys (Jeeps que os americanos deixaram após a 2ª guerra) são o transporte colectivo mais popular.

The ubiquitous Jeepney is the so-called King of the Road in the Philippines. They are everywhere: in the cities, towns, hamlets, even in mountains; anywhere the simplest suggestion of a path exists. Adapted from army jeeps at the end of the Second World War, they sit higher and are longer to accommodate more passengers. Jeepneys.
They are garishly decorated, with pewter stallions on the hood, streamers and flags on the antennae, covered in imaginative if unskilled art, every unpainted surface festooned by gleaming chrome. The interior and windshield are covered with so many stickers, ornaments, and God Bless Our Kids artwork that visibility is reduced to that of a tank driver's. They don't stop at visual decorations. Special horn sounds range from gay manic laughter to wolf whistles, even classical music for the cultural wannabe.
Jeeps can accommodate 18-20 people, with two up front with the driver and the rest seated in upholstered benches, each facing the other. Fully loaded this way, up to four more people can still ride by clinging to the bars at the rear exit, with their back ends at the mercy of trailing vehicles.

Também muito utilizados são os Trycicles ou motorizadas com sidecar. Chegam a levar 5 passageiros (para além do condutor).

Tricycles are motorcycles with distinctive sidecars. They can seat two in the sidecar and one other riding shotgun with the driver. Amazingly manoeuvrable in rutted and congested back roads, tricycles go for a contract price of eight pesos per trip but the amount may be split among several passengers going the same way.

Manila - Grand Marian Procession 20071202

A procissão tem lugar todos os anos, no Intramuros (antiga cidade murada, construida pelos espanhois nos séculos 16-17).
Cada paróquia apresenta um carro alegórico e os membros preparam uma encenação. Muitos com música, coreagrafia e dança. Clima muito festivo.
Algumas paróquias vinham de longe de Manila. Eram dezenas, talvez mais de cem paróquias, parecia não ter fim.