Curso de Jornalismo Televisivo em 2 minutos

Digam-me uma coisa (sem mentiras): vocês VÊEM o telejornal? Não estou a perguntar se têm a televisão ligada à hora do noticiário. Quero saber se VÊEM E OUVEM as notícias? Pois… bem me parecia. Vocês que estudam jornalismo como eu, dou-vos a boa nova de que tudo o que precisam de saber para servir uma dieta diária desequilibrada e sem sabor no horário nobre está neste clip. É fácil e funciona! Bom proveito!

Tell me something (no lies): do you WATCH the news? I’m not asking if you turn on your TV set at prime time, I’m asking if you SEE AND LISTEN the news? Yeah… I thought so. For those of you who study journalism like me I have a great announcement to make: all you need to know to serve an unbalanced and flavourless daily diet in prime time, is here, in this clip. It’s easy and it works! Enjoy!

Joana Tadeu

Happy-go-Lucky

Her name is Poppy, she’s 30.

«”The road to reality”… don’t want to be going there!” – this is how the movie starts.

Her biciclet is stolen: “I didn’t even had the chance to say goodbye…”

She’s cutting holes for eyes in paper bags that are going to be masks: «You should ask an adult to help you», her friend says. «I don’t know any.», she answers.

She’s seeing someone off: “Stay happy!”

«I should give up smoking», her friend says. «What should I give up», she asks. «You should give up being so nice…»

« – It’s hard work being a grown up, isn’t it?

- Yeah, it is. It’s a long trip.

- Yeah. Tell me when we get there.

- Don’t worry, I’ll let you know. You keep rowing and I’ll keep on smilling.

- Are we there yet?

- We’ve got a hell of a way to go.»

The end.

Joana Tadeu

Rock climbing from Woody Allen’s point of view

Watching ‘Annie Hall’, from 1977:

She asks him about the fascination one might have for basketball. He answers with a rather gashing response, and probably – no – definitely, philosophical.

Thinking about this, I can only agree that such activities as sports - meaning basketball, dance, boxing or rock climbing – are real and true. Sports are bewitching for those who practice them and for men who watch them (and they say that women are the sensitive gender). 

Anyway, being an assumed intellectual and very keen on rock climbing these days, this quote is exactly what I make out of this self-contradiction of mine:

“What’s fascinating is that it’s physical. You know, it’s one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what’s going on. But on the other hand… (Clears his throat) the body doesn’t lie, as-as we now know.”

 Joana Tadeu

Nice to meet you JC!

I would love to meet Jesus. Seriously… does a man like that exist? A believer, a true person, a committed man, kind, philanthropic, loving and giving, fair, caring and the son of the most powerful man in the world. Plus: he can do magic! What more can you ask from a man? Oh! He has to be good-looking, sexy, with a peculiar style that no one else has, have a lot of other men wanting to be like him and gorgeous women chasing him too. You’ve got it!

Does your life lack emotion? Well, Jesus has someone trying to kill him, which made him the most famous renegade in history. He is the leading figure on thousands of films and books; he is the only man that ever resuscitated from death; he is not afraid of wearing skirts; you can hit him all you want and he’ll just turn the other cheek so that you can hit him some more; he made it possible to people all over the world not to work on his birthday and his “deathday”, to celebrate holy conception, birth, the art of giving gifts (which he started…), judgment, passion, crucifixion, death, burials. So, the man does know how to throw a party.

He can predict the future (he guessed Judas would betray him, didn’t he?). With bread and water he can make a great dinner party, so great in fact that people still talk about it, write about it, make films about it and paint the scene all over and over again, so that everyone can have a reproduction on their wall. He made other people famous, like Virgin Mary, the Three Wise Men, Judas and the Twelve Apostles, Mary Magdalene, Leonardo Da Vinci, Robert Graves, Mikhail Bulgakov, Fernando Sánchez Dragó, Dan Brown, more than two hundred and sixty popes, some priests, and most recently, José Saramago. Who knows what he could do for you?

The most read and printed book in history only sells because of him. The man is so important that someone tried to register his name as a brand! And what is it about his name that every men and women scream it out loud in bed!? “Jesus Christ!” may mean pain, surprise, happiness, fear or anger and it has suffered some alterations, like, for example, “Jesus F****** Christ!”. If he was not chaste, as some orthodox churches insist, I would travel back in time and most definitely try to marry him.

Joana Tadeu

Social Media is The New Punk!

Uma visão simplificada do fenómeno Web 2.0 mas que desperta os adormecidos.

Sobre o universo descrito por Andrew Keen: “Out of this anarchy, it suddenly became clear that what war governing the infinite monkey now inputting away on the Internet was the law of digital Darwinism, the survival of the loudest and most opinionated. Under these rules, the only way to intellectually prevail is by infinite filibustering”.