The Vendor Client Relationship - Yes, this might be YOU.

www.youtube.com/watch

Negotiation is one thing, but as a vendor (or otherwise), there's an old standby: "A LACK OF PLANNING ON YOUR PART DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART."

If you jump at requests like these, you're ENABLING bad behavior and encouraging lack of planning!

2nd Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival - Bahia Edition - LABRFF 2009 - March 12-15th

March 12 - 15
at The Landmark, Westside Pavilion
10850 West Pico at Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA (90064)
Enter on Westwood Blvd. or Pico Blvd.
Tickets: (310) 961-4986
Wed. Mar. 11 8:00pm

Tons of good screenings, come check it out!!!

PRE-EVENT with Singer MONTSERRAT
LATIN SENSATION, MONTSERRAT, BRINGS
“BOLEROS WITH BOSSA”
To open the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival Pre-event
Brentwood Theatre, West Los Angeles
Free admission, RSVP to rsvp@labrff.com


Thu. Mar. 12
OPENING NIGHT GALA
“A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT TO FLY”
(Bela Noite Para Voar)
Directed by: Zelito Viana

Red Carpet Event 6:00pm
Opening Ceremony 7:30pm
Opening Film 8:30pm
After party entertainment provided at Stella Artois' lounge with DJ Elias Cabuzz from New York
Brazilian Celebrities attending the red carpet: Erika Mader, Murilo Rosa, Jair Oliveira, Jose de Abreu, Selton Mello, Malu Mader, Caua Reymond, Paloma Rocha, Mini Kerti
Hollywood celebrities attending red carpet will be announced on March 12th.
$60 includes After Party.Click here to purchase your ticket!!!
Venue: The Landmark, Westside Pavilion
Fri. Mar. 13
Screenings from 10:00am - 11:00pm
Special tribute to Glauber Rocha
Painel Discussion 1 - "Locations: how to shoot in Brazil"
Workshop about the State of Bahia:

Workshop about the State of Bahia: The Ministry of Tourism Embratur, and the Secretariat of Tourism of the State of Bahia are very pleased to invite the Los Angeles Touristic Trade to attend a special documentary: “ Bahia is it and too much more” and “ Embratur Brasil –Sensacional” with Q & A opportunity.
We will be distributing promotional materials and offering a cocktail with great taste of Bahian Food. FREE EVENT! rsvp@labrff.com

Cocktail Party at LABRFF's lounge
Venue: The Landmark, Westside Pavilion
Sat. Mar. 14
Screenings from 10:00am - 11:00pm
Special tribute to Glauber Rocha
Painel Discussion 2 - "New Media"
Painel Discussion 3 - "The film and legacy of Glauber Rocha"
Cocktail Party at LABRFF's lounge
Venue: The Landmark, Westside Pavilion


Sun. Mar. 15

Screenings from 10:00am - 11:00pm
Special tribute to Glauber Rocha
Painel Discussion 3 - " The tricks and traps of financing in Brazil and abroad for new filmmakers"

CLOSING NIGHT & AWARDS CEREMONY
“Golden Oldies”
(Casa da Mae Joana)
Directed by: Hugo Carvana

Red Carpet Event 6:00pm
Awards Ceremony 7:00pm
Closing Film 8:00pm
After party entertainment provided at Stella Artois' lounge
$40 includes After Party. Click here to purchase your ticket!!!Venue: The Landmark, Westside Pavilion

Credo in $

[pretty amusing - found on the net]

I believe in worldwide Ponzi schemes and universal gullibility. I believe that reckless lending can be cured by reckless borrowing and that fraudulent borrowing can be healed by fraudulent lending. I believe that a housing bubble fueled by loose credit can be corrected by easing credit. I believe that each trillion of hallucinated dollars that disappears in a puff of Wall Street smoke then always reappears magically from behind a Treasury Department mirror.

I believe in America's almighty financial geniuses and monetary officials, who destroy wealth indiscriminately and indefinitely, and whose kingdom shall have no end. It is divine justice that those who cause financial catastrophes are rewarded with public money, while innocent bystanders are punished in their stead. I believe that central banks can print all the money anyone will ever need. I believe that if one stimulus package does not work, the next one surely will.

I believe in the redeeming power of financial complexity. I believe that hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds are righteous to enter into incomprehensible contracts having convoluted ownership and no inherent value. And I believe that opaque, secretive companies which pretend to insure those investments are offering a valuable service, even if this requires the use of public money.

I believe that economic stability and confidence will return when every failing business is bailed out, with no failure too small to be left behind. I believe that all dying institutions shall be consolidated, merging the smaller basket cases with the larger ones. The lion and the lamb shall lie down together in a new spirit of national competitiveness.

I believe that the end of days shall come when there is only one institution left, comprehensively unified, far too big to fail, owning everything and controlling nothing. All shall come and supplicate before its holy ATM machines, for they are subtle and quick to anger. It is in this one true financial institution that I put my faith, truly gigantic, truly bankrupt, amen.

Word Social Forum 2009, Belem Brazil

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Some 100,000 activists of all stripes converged on this steamy Amazon city Tuesday, opening the World Social Forum with a rambunctious march to the beat of samba drums.

An afternoon jungle downpour could not drown the spirits of those who came from all corners of the globe to participate: Socialists, environmentalists, anarchists, Indians, communists and even a fellow dressed as a pirate.

The massive meeting — coming amid the worst global economic crisis in decades — was held for the first time in the Amazon region, an especially poignant fact for attendees.

"During a financial crisis, the environment is the first thing to be pushed off the agenda of most governments," said Andrew Riplinger, 22, of Chicago. "I think having the social forum here in Belem, surrounded by the rain forest — it's keeping environmentalism on the table."


www.google.com/hostednews...SQD95VPGFG1

www.wsftv.net/Members/bfo...s_1.mp4/view

Seeking models for jewelry line

FYI, seeking models of Dominican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban descent for February photo shoot. Small shoot, low-pay, outdoors. Please use contact form at tainogallery.com.

Obama photos from Salvador!

Latest round in from Salvador...
flickr.com/photos/boxeswithknobs

also, wonderful video on the Obama effect outside the U.S. - www.pbs.org/frontlinewor...ma-samba.html

I'm planning to be gone for a chunk of this year, looks like March-Sept. journeying. Hoping to find a way to Siwa, Egypt..

Zap-Masters - Robert Crumb

R. Crumb, R WMS, S. Clay Wilson & Rick Griffin




Zap-Masters - The Juxtapoz Factor

Hey Everyone - We are having an incredible event this Saturday at CoproNason Gallery. Zap-Masters art show, Live grunge, surf music from the V-Guns, and a book release & signing of the Laguna Art Museum catalog "Land of Retinal Delights : The Juxtapoz Factor "

The "Zap-Masters" show features historical artwork from the original underground artists that started it all. R. Crumb, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson and Rick Griffin all worked together in the forefront of the Underground art movement that metamorphosed into what it is today. We have artwork from R. Crumb that dates back as far as 1959 and actual original pages from Zap 0 dated 1967 and other work that changed history!!! All of the most valuable pieces will be on display ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! After Saturday night we will be adding other pieces and re-hanging the show so if the history of underground art interests you don't miss out!!! The show will run 2 more weeks after that and will still include many great pieces. Hope to see you there!!!

ZAP-Masters web-preview R. Crumb ( app.expressemailmarketing.com/get.link )

Zap-Masters web-preview Rwms, S. Clay, Rick Griffin ( app.expressemailmarketing.com/get.link )

Zap-Masters press release ( app.expressemailmarketing.com/get.link )

In the Land of Retinal Delights - The Juxtapoz Factor ( app.expressemailmarketing.com/get.link )

Ascent of Money

Great detail in this program. Worth checking out. Being from Detroit, I'm familiar with a big chunk of the history!

www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/

www.youtube.com/watch

Van Jones on Green...

Van Jones, founder of the Green for All jobs campaign, asserts that "the idea that it's jobs versus environment is an utter falsehood." Jones, speaking at the Take Back America Conference of the Campaign for America's Future on March 17, 2008, called on the government to get on the side of those trying to simultaneously help our economy and stop global warming. There are more jobs in the clean economy, he said, than in the current polluting one.

uk.youtube.com/watch

Bose-Einstein condensate - BIG BANG on a needlepoint!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose...cteristics

When the scientists raised the magnetic field strength still further, the condensate suddenly reverted back to attraction, imploded and shrank beyond detection, and then exploded, blowing off about two-thirds of its 10,000 or so atoms. About half of the atoms in the condensate seemed to have disappeared from the experiment altogether, not being seen either in the cold remnant or the expanding gas cloud.[10] Carl Wieman explained that under current atomic theory this characteristic of Bose–Einstein condensate could not be explained because the energy state of an atom near absolute zero should not be enough to cause an implosion; however, subsequent mean-field theories have been proposed to explain it.

Because supernova explosions are also preceded by an implosion, the explosion of a collapsing Bose–Einstein condensate was named "bosenova", a pun on the musical style bossa nova.

The atoms that seem to have disappeared almost certainly still exist in some form, just not in a form that could be detected in that experiment. Most likely they formed molecules consisting of two bonded rubidium atoms. The energy gained by making this transition imparts a velocity sufficient for them to leave the trap without being detected.