In the end: pressure

This is the story about my all perspective of life...

In school I've been always like this: at the beginning I'm in relax mode, chilling out with my friends careless about the studies; But then the 3rd term appears and I'm already screwed up. I'm in the final countdown and I need to study...a lot. I mean I'm not dumb I'm just lazy (to lazy).

I'm dumb being lazy but with pressure I can do just fine. But this behavior can't last forever because it's very effective and I can't screwed up real bad.

By now I am in exams period and I need maths' mark to go to college and graduate in my real area: sport (basically football coaching).

But like in football it us in the end how the championship is decided (like FC Porto :D) and is how it end no how we start (even though a good start is a good way to end well).

So as a champion wins the cup or the championship in the end so I must be able to enter in the college that I want and be able to accomplish my dream and be a professional football coach.

To conclude I must study real bad so I can't get what I much desire and leave this pressure out of my system (though is the only way I know how).

So long bloggers!!

Pop Art: analysing it

If search on Google 'Pop Art' you will see thousand of coloured pictures filled with chocking and vivid colours and most of the paintings will be faces of famous people, specially of Marlyn Manroe, which was one of the most famous paintings of Andy Warhol and also of Pop Art.

Many of the paintings and scultures related to Pop Art were inspired by any daily object/stuff, because everything could/can be considered art and even turned in to icons, or even pick pop and/or cultural icons and made a painting with extravagant colours, or maybe take some smithereens of magazines and glue it all making some sense together creating something that speciallist and art criticals call collage.

Basically something or someone that keeps your attention or is meaningful to you (like 'The American Flag' of Jasper John) that you can use to decorate or to beautify a room, is or can be considered art and is a way of expression used regularly in the 50s (as a post-war affluence).

Just for you to have a notion of how awesome but also strange that Pop Art is, my friend Pedro Nunes has a shelf full of empty cans of Coca-Cola, Monster, Sumol and other recognized brands and all of them organized, making a nice and interesting effect of decoration that it can be considered art, included on this art: Pop Art.

Popular, expendable, low-cost, mass-producted, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous...many ways to define Pop Art and makes to the audience well-informed about what Pop Art is.

 

'Rebel Without a Cause' new ending!

(...) Plato is seriously wounded and injury laid down on the Hospital bed, after a gun shoot. He's in a coma. Jim and Judy visited him some times, but the outcome was always the same: Plato didn't react.

After four months in coma Plato reaveals some signals that he might be getting better and finally woked up while Jim was visiting him. Of course Plato wasn't one hundred percent recovered. He woke up with no memory not knowing who he was nor Jim or Judy.

Later, Jim and Judy brought him home feeling lost and empty. Four months after the incident everything was changed: Judy left her parents' house to start a new life with Jim. They are trying to start a family together in a new apartment bought by Jim's father.

Plato with the help and the effort of both friends was recovering slowly his memory however was still feeling lost: with no parents, no love, no reason to fight...but he found out an example. His friends. Jim and Judy didn't give up despite the difficulties.

So that, Plato was very grateful forr all the support given by his friends but he decided to leave them with the purpose to find him self in another place to try to be a normal person and to live is own life. So he moved right here to Lisbon. Chocking right!?!? 

With so many countries he chose Portugal but as had been all his life, he was unfortunate in Lisbon because he was not able to achieve his dream job becoming an architect and now he is a bartender. Nevertheless working in the bar he found that he is doing something that he likes that makes him to feel accomplished, he is the best in the job. Better than this guy:

As you can imagine this attracts many girls and he finally found the one who was able to guide him through his life and his awesome carreer.
Afterall , Portugal was the country where he was able to pursuit his 'American dream'.

Slogan

"It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much"

Solidarity in Football

As we already discuss here, we conclude that sport events are one of the major atractions and entertainment in the world, watched, felt and lived by millions of people in the cases of Super Bowl, NBA and FIFA World Cup. This fact helps to get the audience easier spreading almost a global message which is used in publicity but also (and that's the theme of this weak) in solidarity.
Solidary movements, foundations, associations and donatives are connected with these sports events. For example, in football: many clubs all over the world have they're own foundation like Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Sporting and FC Porto, or stars of the sport's king like Luís Figo, Vitor Baía (portuguese ex-football players who were and still are icons on this football world) that after their carreer on football create foundations to raise donations to help children in need, or (recently) like David Beckham who is donating his all salary on PSG to foundations in need, Mario Balotelli and Cristiano Ronaldo who are constantly help and supporting foundations in Africa and Asia.
This movements and supports helps to transmit an global message and send the example for the millions of fans all over the world and getting them to help the most in need. FIFA and UEFA also contribute to spread an important message relative to Human Rights coordinating a sense of respect: "Say no to racism" to promote a fair and peaceful game, punishing seriously those who has racism behaviors (fans or football players), but also the leagues like Premier League in England that has an institution to help in need children with poor conditions to practice sport more often football.As a result of all this global attention, the message is reached to the fans and sent as an example, persuading them to follow their idols and be sensitized to the situations of this children and people in need making the difference in solidarity, charity and the anti-racism movements.

Importance of Sport

I believe that sport moves the world. What I mean is that you can captivate or call someone's attencion with sport. I can give you a close example of that: for example the campaign of this weak had sport events to call the attencion of the students. Another example of the importance of sport: publicity. Football, American football, basketball, tennis...all the big competions (UEFA Champions League, The Superball, NBA, Wimbledon Tournment) are replete of commercials and advertisements because those events are seen by a considerable number of people.

Of course the competions like the FIFA Football World Cup or the Olympic Games are seen and lived with another dimension and moves the fans to react with some acts like the 'drummer' 'Manolo' of Spain or that portuguese who was considered the best fan in the world in 2010 with the famous name 'Dino Supremo'.

Unfortunately not everything is 'fiesta'. Any sport can bring the fans to overreaction (like crying and when your time loses) and the reactions exceed the limits yielding to agressions, murders, riots (like in Egypt).

But in the other hand, the joy and the happiness that leads the fans to still follow their team besides anything. This supporting and this fanaticism are used to help the neediest, like foundations or games against the hunger in the world.

In brief, no matter what sport that you follow, see or practice, somehow is used to entertain you and works like an escapism from your life, that's why the sport moves the world.

Effort

Since this blog is about sports I think the word 'effort' is the main key on any professional sport, but it can be applied in our lives. 'Effort' means 'serious and honest attempt to do something that is desired, supported by courage, strenght and energy'. To be succeed you need more than effort, but it is a good start :)

In the world of sports, effort, humility, honesty but, and it is not a cliche, you need to believe in you and in your dream and if it is what you most desire, you have to follow throught. There are many examples where effort was a clear example of success like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in football, or Lebron James in basketball who were very poor on their childhood and now are they are talked, loved (and sometimes hated) and known from all over the world. Models of life, success and effort and the prove that the 'cliches' that I told you about are true and these qualities may really win in your professional and/or personal life.

Here's an advice ;)