25 Jan

Aupair #366Project Day 25

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A couple of months ago I did some portfolio photos for an Austrian model called Anna Salminen. I’ve been dying to know what she thinks of the final product for a little while and now I finally get to show the photos.

The theme of he photos is a littler darker and more adult than what I usually do, but it was INCREDIBLE fun to make them and we had loads of laughs setting up the shoot and maling sure she was serious for most of them… Yeah… Not easy to do when we are both laughing hard of one thing or another.

I’ve uploaded some of the photos to Flickr and you can see them here . The one on top is one of my favourite ones… It also has a meaning… sometimes we choose not to see what is right in front of us… Choice… is such an interesting little thing, huh?!?!

Carpe Diem!

24 Jan

The Off Button #366Project Day 24

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I know I’m not the first and will not be the last one to wish that we had one of those for our brains. There isn’t much to it… even when we tell our brains to stop thinking about things it will still requiere that we think about making it stop thinking.

And is not even as if I could solve the problem by pressing the off button on the computer… because then I would be thinking about the stuff that I haven’t finished that is inside the computer that is turned off…

Have you ever heard of The Singularity? Long story short, te Singularity is a point in history where computers and AI will be thinking so much faster than the human brain and creating much faster AI (or SAI *Super Artificial Intelligence*) that it becomes impossible to predict what comes next in the future of technology. When that happens, a human without cybernetic implants to the brain that won’t be able to cope with the speeds at which computers will be thinking… At that point there should be posible even to download our consciousness into a machine and achieve immortality (A dream the one and only Sheldon Cooper awaits to happen with arms wide open)…

Or something like that…

They say we should be able to achieve this point int time around 2046…

hummmm….

Now… I wonder if we are going to be smart enough to remember to add an on/off switch to designs of of our mechanic brain!?!?!?! Wouldn’t THAT be just awesome?!?!?!

24 Jan

Dream in Code #366Project Day 23

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Yawn!!!!!

This is what I had in my screen when I fell asleep last night… yeah… seems I am back… there is no denying it now…

24 Jan

Identity #366Project Day 22

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Do you know, WHO you are? Do you know it REALLY? I used to have those parameters VERY well defined… And they were different in different “lives”.

I was once Mr. Professional with a career oriented mind… a bit of a workaholic if you ask me… That was all I always had in my mind… and in every situation there was an opportunity… It had to be considering the clients I looked after… Then one day (after 3 years neglecting my own life) I was in a hospital bed and a doctor told me either I change my life stile dramatically or I would most definitely not be around for too long…

So I changed it… Took a sabbatical, bought tickets and came to the UK… I was planning to study, and party lots… I did no studying at all… but I did party… and met the person that would become my wife one day… We got married and moved back to Brazil…

The Party Lifestyle was still there… I had plans… We were even going to open a beach bar in a GORGEOUS sandy beach clear water etc… But it wasn’t to be… The Daddy Era was to begin…

We moved back to the UK and being a daddy defined me… And for a while that was enough for me… But I needed more…

I became a photographer, a designer, a writer (I even had a magazine column for a while… and a wrote for a couple of newspapers and websites) and a Blogger… I a going through a divorce and have been in and out of relationships. I have explored dorment sides of me in the meantime… Blogging was the one constant I had for a little over 8 years and for a while I thought it defined me… Took me a while to realise that who I am defines what I blog about and not the contrary.

I guess it will still be a while until I end this identity crisis… But again… this is life right? Change is the only thing we can actually count with… And with all the change constantly happening in my life I think I have learned a lot more about myself then when I “KNEW who I was”.

And for now, I am happy to say “Hi there! I am Yuri (AKA Urbanvox)”

Who are you?????

22 Jan

A Letter and a Gift #366Project Day 21

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He usually writes me emails to say he misses me (or whenever he wants me to know he wants something)… I think that is why when the Big Monkey handed me this letter on Friday night I had to hold tight not to cry.

Yeah… he might be growing up… but he is still that same little boy that used to fall asleep on top of my belly… Guess this is the way I’ll always see them all. And as you can see, Little Monkey contributed to the letter too… hehehe

I now keep it in my wallet…

Carpe Diem!