irony?

nature shines, even reflected on it´s own destrution...

photo & text: Otaviano Fontanini

dictatorship of hapiness

In the capitalist world we are living today, the search for hapiness is becoming more and more atractive, but when the sorrows and frustrations are being locked on a drugs cage, we have to admit there´s something wrong going on.

When we think about it, taking pills that promises to take your bad feelings away, that seem to be an excellent choice. But is it really necessary to feel so happy all the time? Certainly there seems to be a very simple choice, but when we swallow all the available drug cocktails, we are leaving behind feelings that usually constructs a man.

Thinkin about never being sad seems great, but what´s the price we have to pay for it? We are constantly bombarded by the consumerist media messages, and that´s where we find the problem. People are being taken to think that the financial sucess walks besides hapiness, with that in mind, they are doing everything possible to get rich, as quick as possible.

That´s not happening on individual scale, whole countries explore others to get their wealth. With those minds and actions, the social differences are getting huge.

A world reformation is sadly a utopian solution, but we surely have to think over: what kind of hapiness concept we are being subjected?

Otaviano Fontanini

confusion

back to a place

used to be so cozy

now i don't recognize anymore

slices of passion

walk across a long gallery

pictures of myself

who are those people

they used to ken me

who am I?

don't recognize myself

another sentence

same hang

some things changed

others didn't

other responsibilities

same skills

charging the unknown

evrything seem so dissimilar

but still the same

I think I'll have to make new answers

to the old questions

sickness

if you had a son

and he were beaten till death with a baseball bat

would you want to put the bat on a wall as a finery?

that's what they do with jesus' cross

MOTHER FUCKER

difference?

Nothing defines better my view than what jackie just told me

"to me, what's different is intresting, and what's intresting, is handsome"

thanks for sharing my point of view

that means a lot

Uzbekistan

"I don't understand French, but if I could,
I would write beautiful songs about horrible things...
because it is said to be the language of love and romance...
and if love didn't exist, there wouldn't be any horrible things.
You must care to cry, love something in order to hate something...
You must have a heart in order for it to be broken.
Many people walk in a dream.
They feel entitled to happiness and feel anger when it is not waiting for them.
I know that the world owes me nothing, yet has given me a great deal.
It is our own perception we get to bend and mold to our liking-
once that is accomplished, the reality we once knew begins to change.
My neighbor may be dark and gloomy, but I find it a perfect day to go outside.
I can knock on his door, but that doesn't mean he will answer.
And I will have to walk away, sad, from his little house
where he sleeps and smokes and drinks all day,
just to escape what he does not yet know.
We find ourselves in little boxes watching little boxes.
We see an edited version of human life, targeted on alienating us as individuals,
to distract us from the seedy underbelly of politics and business.
We are products of a Machiavellian society.
Look at the pretty girl dancing- her hair is so shiny.
I want my hair to be shiny. Look at the man with chizzled features-
use the razor he is using. It will give you the kind of charm that woman crave.
Women will want you. Men will adore you. You will be happy. You will be empty.
Because it is not about the product, but the feeling they try to convey.
And it is not for your benefit, it is for the benefit of the holders of the company.
We must burn our little boxes. We must create dialogue.
We must realize the importance of every moment.
We must turn our boredom to gratitude.
Use your hands, your thoughts, your hunger.
These things are yours and yours alone "

manifesto pela escrita

Dizer algo sem ser ouvido é algo terrível, porém isso é algo recorrente, por mais que as pessoas finjam interesse, ou de fato ouçam o que digo, muitas vezes penso em o quão indiferentes elas podem ser quanto a isso.

Sei que verbalizar pensamentos e ideais pode ser um grande modo de expressão, causar um impacto visual muitas vezes é um excelente modo de persuasão, mas cada vez mais o mundo fica surdo e cego para visões alternativas. Apesar de todos os pensamentos diferirem entre si, a tendência global é de acomodação em idéias simples ou parecidas com as suas.

Hoje ouvi um pensamento que mudou meu modo de ver as pessoas: "O conhecimento é dividido em 4 pontos: O senso comum; A informação; O conhecimento e; A sabedoria. A transição do senso comum para a informação é quase que passivo, contanto que a informação esteja disponível, para sair da informação e ir para o conhecimento, é preciso algum esforço e pensamento, já para chegar a sabedoria, você precisa se esforçar e ler muito.". Essa conclusão me fez enxergar que apesar de algum esforço, estou no nível do conhecimento em poucos assuntos e, em nenhum alcancei a sabedoria.

Pensei sobre isso algum tempo e percebi que isso se dá devido a facilidade de acesso a informação superficial que nos está disponível hoje, a maioria dos assunto, ao chegarmos ao patamar da informação, nos damos por satisfeitos. Poucas são as pessoas que se preocupam, de propósito ou sem querer, a obter conhecimento sobre algo. Talvez por falta de fontes, muitas vezes por desinteresse, mas acho que uma sociedade com informação, mas sem conhecimento, não é o suficiente.

As fontes de informação não se preocupam mais em aprofundar-se em assuntos importantes, só passam superficialmente, por tópicos com maior impacto para o público que pretendem alienar, devido a falta de espaço e tempo para as mídias faladas e/ou visuais.

A escrita, além de ser um meio tão eficaz quanto os outros, se perpetua.

Por isso faço um apelo: Pensem, questionem, obtenham conhecimento a partir de informações, conversem sobre isso, mas mais do que isso, escrevam suas conclusões, seus pensamentos, suas emoções. Esse é o modo mais eficaz de se comunicar com outras pessoas.

Otaviano Fontanini - 25 de novembro de 2010