MARIA BONITA/ MARIA BONITA EXTRA

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MARIA BONITA EXTRA SUMMER 2012- FASHION RIO

São Paulo Fashion Week Summer/Verão 2012
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antonio Bernardo

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A-BRAND

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GRAÇA OTTONI

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FOGO DE CHAO RESTAURANT IN BEVERLY HILLS - MEAT LOVER'S PARADISE - BRAZILIAN BBQ

Fogo the Chão Restaurant
133 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 289.7755
http://www.fogodechao.com/index.php?id=61

I absolute love Fogo de Chão!

A must if you are in LA - Bervely Hills.
If you like meat this is the place for you, but if you are vegetarian, you can also eat from the salad bar that is amazing and the Brazilian side dishes that they bring to the table.
Fogo the Chão is an all you can eat Brazilian Steak House. You'll eat untill you can move any longer!

Here is how it works:

Dining Experience
Step 1: Sit down, relax, and enjoy a drink while they'll explain the Fogo dining experience.
Step 2: Visit the gourmet salad and sides bar. Enjoy over 30 items including fresh cut vegetables, imported cheeses, cured meats and Brazilian side dishes.
Step 3: Turn your card green side up, signaling that you are ready for their gaucho chefs to begin tableside service.
Step 4: Choose from the 15 cuts of delectable fire roasted meats that are brought to your table, sliced, and served by our gaucho chefs.
Step 5: When you are satisfied, flip the disc to the red side until you are ready for more offerings.
Step 6: If you wish, end the meal with one of their delicious desserts.

KOI RESTAURANT/ LOUNGE

Koi restaurant/ Lounge

730 n. La Cienega blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90069

http://www.koirestaurant.com

I LOVE KOI! AMAZING FOOD AND NICE PLACE TO HANG OUT.

HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE KOI DISHES.

TUNA CRISPY RICE

PEPPERCORN FILET MIGNON

MISO BRONZED BLACK COD

BAKED CRAB HAND-ROLL

DESSERT PLATTER

ROCKIN' CUCUMBER- ROCK SAKE, VODKA, CUCUMBER, LIME JUICE

KATANA RESTAURANT IN LA - ROBATA AND SUSHI BAR

KATANA RESTAURANT

8439 W.Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

(323)650-8585

http://www.katanarobata.com/katana/

Filet mignon wrapped around Foie Gras and asparagus

I love Katana, It's one of my favorite restaurants in LA, the food is amazing and the drinks are so good.

You must go to Katana if you are in LA. Yummy!

My favorites dishes there are:

- The Kani Maki - Baked Crab wrapped in soy paper (hand roll)

- The lobster roll

- The amazing Foie Gras - Filet mignon wrapped around Foie Gras and asparagus, OMG!

- Can't forget the drink, Pear Martini is my favorite

http://katanarobata.com/katana/index.htm

HOW TO MAKE PICANHA BRAZILIAN BARBEQUE

NANOOK OF THE NORTH - FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY -1922 BY ROBERT J. FLAHERTY

Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and his family in the Canadian arctic. The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects' lives.

In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film was shot near Inukjuak, on Hudson Bay in northern Quebec, Canada. Having worked as a prospector and explorer in Arctic Canada among the Inuit, Flaherty was familiar with his subjects and set out to document their lifestyle. Flaherty had shot film in the region prior to this period, but that footage was destroyed in a fire started when Flaherty dropped a cigarette onto the original camera negative (which was highly flammablenitrate stock). Flaherty therefore made Nanook of the North in its place. Funded by French fur company Revillon Frères, the film was shot from August 1920 to August 1921.

As the first nonfiction work of its scale, Nanook of the North was ground-breaking cinema. It captured an exotic culture (that is, Indigenous and considered exotic to non-Inuit peoples) in a remote location, rather than a facsimile of reality using actors and props on a studio set. Traditional Inuit methods of hunting, fishing, igloo-building, and other customs were shown with accuracy, and the compelling story of a man and his family struggling against nature met with great success in North America and abroad.

Flaherty has been criticized for deceptively portraying staged events as reality, although staging events for the camera was the norm of documentary filmmakers of the time. "Nanook" was in fact named Allakariallak, while the "wife" shown in the film was not really his wife. According to Charles Nayoumealuk, who was interviewed in Nanook Revisited (1988), "the two women in Nanook - Nyla (Alice [?] Nuvalinga) and Cunayou (whose real name we do not know) were not Allakariallak's wives, but were in fact common-law wives of Flaherty." And although Allakariallak normally used a gun when hunting, Flaherty encouraged him to hunt after the fashion of his recent ancestors in order to capture the way the Inuit lived before European influence. On the other hand, while Flaherty made his Inuit actors use spears instead of guns during the walrus and seal hunts, the hunting actually involved wild animals. Flaherty also exaggerated the peril to Inuit hunters with his claim, often repeated, that Allakariallak had died of starvation two years after the film was completed, whereas in fact he died at home, likely of tuberculosis.

Flaherty defended his work by stating that a filmmaker must often distort a thing to catch its true spirit. Later filmmakers have pointed out that the only cameras available to Flaherty at the time were both large and immobile, making it impossible to effectively capture most interior shots or unstructured exterior scenes without significantly modifying the environment and subject action. For example, the Inuit crew had to build a special three-walled igloo for Flaherty's bulky camera so that there would be enough light for it to capture interior shots.

At the time, few documentaries had been filmed and there was little precedent to guide Flaherty's work. Since Flaherty's time both staging action and attempting to steer documentary action have come to be considered unethical amongst cinéma vérité purists, because they believe such reenactments deceive the audience.

THE HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE

The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera.
The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention.

The Cinematographer made motion pictures very popular, and it could be better be said that Lumiere's invention began the motion picture era. In 1895, Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.
The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. Later in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S..

"The cinema is an invention without a future" - Louis Lumière



Lumière Brothers

A TRIP TO THE MOON 1902 - THE FIRST SCIENCE FICTION FILM

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black-and-white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.

The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced. It was extremely popular at the time of its release and is the best-known of the hundreds of fantasy films made by Méliès. A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction film, and uses innovative animation and special effects, including the well-known image of the spaceship landing in the moon's eye.
Melies most famous film is pretty much as classic as classics go when it comes to the history of film. According to legend, Melies saw some of the earliest films as projected by the Lumiere brothers and immediately wanted to make them himself. While using his first camera he managed to get the film stuck. After developing the footage, Melies marveled as images jumped and created strange and magical effects. Melies realized that he could manipulate film in order to create fantastic effects. And classics were born.
At the beginning of every medium it’s pretty easy to create classics. A classic requires some combination of virtuosity, novelty, and entertainment value. If a movie is overwhelmingly and perfectly entertaining it doesn’t necessarily need to be all that novel, and if it’s genuinely and completely novel it doesn’t actually need to be all that entertaining. True virtuosity trumps everything, of course.

A Trip to the Moon takes Melies early experiments in special effects and uses them in a feature about a bunch of scientists who shoot themselves from the Earth all the way to the moon. Like, in a big bullet. Then there are big lizards and stars that look like hot 19th Century chicks and scientists engaging in mortal combat with umbrellas.

Instant classics are few and far between. They require skilled innovation, entertainment value, or sheer wild talent, and none of that comes along very often. When it does, it creates the kind of impact crater on history made by the films of Georges Melies.

A Trip to the Moon is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
It was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th century by The Village Voice, ranking in at #84.

THE FIRST MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE - THE HORSE IN MOTION (1878) AND THE FIRST SONG EVER RECORDED -1860

The first recorded sound (1860) playing to the first moving picture (1878)

In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a motion picture. Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford (California governor/ Stanford University) to scientifically answer a popularly debated question during this era - are all four of a horse's hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? Muybridge's time-motion photography proved they indeed were, and the idea of motion photography was born. Eadweard Muybridge photographed a horse named "Ocident" in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic cameras. The first experience successfully took place on June 11 at the Palo Alto farm in California. the cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse's, and each of the camera shutters was controlled by a trip wire which was triggered by the horse's hooves.

Eadward J.Muybridge

CITY OF GOD/ CIDADE DE DEUS - 2002 BY FERNANDO MEIRELLES

This film is based on a true story. Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, know as City of God slum, take differents paths: one becomes a freelancer photographer, the other a drug dealer. This film shows how difficult is living in brazilian slums and the criminality that really exists.

OUR HOME - THE ASTRAL CITY / NOSSO LAR - 2010 BY WAGNER DE ASSIS

The movie The Astral City is a perfect adaptation of the book "Nosso Lar" ("Our Home" in English) which is one of the most important books written by Chico Xavier,

Brazil's most beloved medium and possibly the most famous psychic of the world. The book was psychographed, that is, authored by a spiritual entity named André Luiz who used Chico Xavier's body to write the book.

The Astral City was read by over 16 million people since it was first published in 1944 and remains one of the precious gems of the spiritist literature. In the movie The Astral City, André Luiz is also the main character. He tells the story of a place where people go after death and teaches lessons about love, peace and forgiveness.

PIXOTE - THE LAW OF THE WEAKEST - A LEI DO MAIS FRACO

1981 BY HECTOR BABENCO

Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

THE PROMISE KEEPER - O PAGADOR DE PROMESSAS

1962 BY ANSELMO DUARTE

Zé do Burro (Leonardo Villar) is a landowner from Nordeste. His best friend is a donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé promises to a Candomblé priestess that if his donkey recovers, he will give away his land to the poor and carry a cross all the way from his farm to the Saint Bárbara Church in Salvador, Bahia, where he will offer the cross to the local priest. Upon the recovery of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. The movie begins as Zé, followed by his wife Rosa (Glória Menezes), arrives outside the church. The local priest (Dionísio Azevedo) refuses to accept the cross once he hears about Zé's "pagan" pledge and the reasons behind it. Everyone attempts to manipulate the innocent and naïve Zé. The local Candomblé worshippers, for example, want to use him as a leader against the discrimination they suffer from the Roman Catholic Church. The sensationalist newspapers transform his promise to give away his land into a "communist" call for land reform (which still is a very controversial issue in Brazil). When Zé is shot by the police to prevent his way into the church, the Candomblé worshippers put his dead body on the cross and force their way into the church.

MICHAEL JACKSON'S "THRILLER" TO BE AUCTIONED

The signature red and black jacket with the "winged" shoulder pads that the "King of Pop" himself used to dance with zombies in his famous "Thriller" Music video will be up for sale later this month as part of a large auction of music memorabilia.

The auction will feature over 600 artifacts belonging to some of pop music's biggest stars including The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain and Madonna, as well as new stars such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

Along with Jackson's jacket, other famous items up for sale include sneakers signed by Britney Spears and a set of handwritten lyrics for songs by Johnny Cash. There was also a luxury car owned by Frank Sinatra and a piece of a guitar that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain once smashed.

The centerpiece item is the "Thriller Jacket" which is expected to sell for $300,000 to $400,000, according to CNN. Part of the proceeds will go towards an animal sanctuary where Jackson's pet Bengal tigers, Thriller and Shabu, are currently living.

Before he died in 2009, Jackson gave the jacket to his two fashion designers Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush. The sleeve lining is signed with the inscription "To Denis and Bush, All my Love, Michael Jackson," according to the Latimesblogs. "Thriller" was the title track of Jackson's 1982 album, which went on to sell a record 100 billion copies worldwide, making it the best selling album of all time.

The song was made into a 14-minute music video that features Jackson, transformed into a werewolf-zombie, leading an army of zombies in a dance number.

The music video and album remain popular to this day as being the subject of many homage and amateur videos and parodies. Along with the jacket, other Jackson items up for sale include a fedora, a black wig, and the sequined glove he wore at the American Music Awards.

By Rachel Higgins

Photo: Reproduction