It turns out I totally forgot to post the photo of all of us with Mike! \../ 

MOONSPELL AND CRADLE OF FILTH SHOW

COLISEU DO PORTO – 2005.03.26


Me and my sister waiting for Moonspell to come! 


And so Moonspell did show up, a bit earlier than I thought it would be! \../ This one lightened up in the photo is Ricardo Amorim, a great guy! 


It was a great show! 


From left to right, Fernando Ribeiro, Aires and Ricardo Amorim. On the drums Mike Gaspar (but sadly can't be seen here...) and on the keys, samplers and guitars Pedro Paixão (who can't also be seen on this photo...). 


 


Fernando Ribeiro 


He sings... 


 


 


Fernando goes and drums a bit with Mike, who can be seen with many (really, MANY) imagination behind that drum kit! 


And for the encore they prepared us a little surprise! Our flag came down and we started listening to... ALMA MATER! It was great! 


At the end they all came to the front of the backstage to thank the audience and so I finally managed to photograph Pedro Paixão (the one on the left) and Mike Gaspar (the one on the right). That hand you see on the right is from a friend of mine named Cátia! I thought her hand would spoil my photo, but thank god it didn't (at least much...)! \../ 


After a lotta waiting Cradle of Filth finally showed up! Here you can see Dani Filth, the singer. 


My sister and I snapped a photo of ourselves during the COF show. It turned out ok, altough the flash made us look white as snow! Lol! In fact in the background you can see the stage and COF performing! \../ 


This is James McIlroy, the guitarist. He's a great performer and interacted a lot with the audience. I tried damn hard to snap a photo while he was poking his tongue out for the photos... but as I was kinda far away from the stage he couldn't see my camera and wouldn't stay with his tongue out for long enough for me to take the bloody photo... :( 


This was one of the gigantic appearences on stage... For a start they had gargoyles on stage, but I couldn't photograph them as it was damn dark... then another gigantic monster showed up, but the problem was the same... and then finally this gigantic monster showed up and thank god the light was a bit better and I managed to snap this multi-shot photo! \../ 


At the last music they had a couple of dancers (a girl and a guy) with a thing on their tummies that made this effect! Damn cool. Sadly they didn't come back for an encore and they didn't say goodbye to the audience... 


After the show ended we (me, my sister and a friend) decided to go and try to meet the bands. So we went by car to the "vip" door way on the back of Coliseu. After half an hour or something and a lotta shouting asking for them to come and meet us finally this great guy showed up. He's James McIlroy from Cradle of Filth! I managed to get an autograph from him on my ticket to the show and he allowed me to snap a photo of him! :) 


Here's his autograph on my ticket! \../ 


After another quite long wait the COF's leader, Dani Filth showed up and while he autographed our stuff he allowed me to snap this photo! 


Here's his signature on the back of my ticket! \../ 


And then I had this ideia of photographing me with him. So I asked my sister to photograph us and here's the result! \../ 


After another long wait we finally met Moonspell, got some autographs and snapped a photo. Here we are (me, Cátia, Andreia and my sister Bebli with José Luís Peixoto - on my side, he's actually not part of the band, he's a writer and wrote a book based on the newest Moonspell's album - and next to Peixoto, Ricardo Amorim. They were both great but were in a bit of a hurry, because, as Ricardo Amorim said "he had been long on tour and wanted to get back to Lisbon soon to enjoy the night with his girlfriend"! lol! He's right... so we "let" them go... and.... 


... Fernando Ribeiro showed up... so we did the same... some autographs, a bit of a talk and some photos. There we are looking happy as hell with him. From left to right, Andreia, me, Fernando, Cátia, Bebli and a ucranian fan! 


And then came Aires, the argentinian... He was so cute and his accent was damn funny. He signed us some autographs and did some shots with us. From left to right, me, Bebli, Aires, Cátia and Andreia. On the back you can see an Andreia's friend who was damn kind and funny! 


Cátia wanted another photo with Mike! The photo came out so great I couldn't resist to show you all, altough I'm not on the photo! Just look at Mike! How cool is he, uh?! \../ 


At the end we decided to take a photo of us all! Our "photographer" is the guy on the right with the Cradle of Filth's shirt! Thank you a lot!!! If it hadn't been you we might not have such great photos! :) Oh... we asked some Moonspell's roadie to snap us this photo and he was quite amazed as we asked him a photo of ourselves without any famous people! But hey, what's the problem! It was a photo to remind us all of the long wait! \../ 


And here's all the autographs I managed to get on my "The Antidote" cd! :) Sadly we never met Pedro Paixão, as he had already went to Lisbon... :( But afterall the long 2 hours on the back of Coliseu was worthy! It was one of my greatest nights ever! :) Moonspell are sooooo great! \../ 

I interrupt posting Palácio do Freixo just to post some photos from the great concert I went to Saturday! 

 

PALÁCIO DO FREIXO

PART VIII – STUCCO ROOM

The grand stucco on the wall... It is too big to catch in a unique detailed photo... This is the best my sister could do (she went there with my grandparents one day I could't go too, so I lent her the camera and asked her to do some shots I had done not that good or hadn't done at all due to lighting...). 


Just a detail from that wall... sadly it got a bit blurred... but even so I think you can see how detailed the leaves are... :) Can't you?! 


A fishing stucco scene! This photo was also done by my sister. I had done a shot like this one, but it came out a bit dark due to lack of lighting, so I rather show you all this one! 


A painting on the wall. 


Another painting on the wall! 


And the stucco ceiling! As you can see it's not everything totally repaired so far... You see that there's an orange cable to a chandelier that is still not there... 

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PART VII – GAMING ROOM

This is the cool ceiling from the Gaming Room! 


This a detail from the ceiling. 


Just another detail from the ceiling. Here you can see the snooker equipment. 


And here's some mega details. Here the dices. 


Here the cards! 


Here chess pieces. 


The domino's pieces. 


A cool parrot on the ceiling! Just look at the colours! :) 


And the window case. It's lovely, uh? :) 


This is the only thing painted on a really tiny room adjacent to the Gaming Room. Actually this is the only thing worth looking there… 

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PART VI – HUNTING ROOM

The first photo I did when I got to this room. 


Another shot of the ceiling! 


The wonderful ceiling. Sadly it was already dark when I shot this photo, so the image is darker as the other ones... but even so I like this one a lot! 


A detail from the ceiling. 

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PART V – KITCHEN


This is the kitchen, actually that thing you can see over there is the kitchen chemney! :) 


The kitchen tiles were all like these, but sadly I guess someone stole them while Palácio do Freixo was totally forgotten and so, now there's only some left... 


And these are some other kitchen tiles, they are kinda like an ending to the other ones. 


This is the oven. Guess no one reminded of cleaning that up... just look at the cigarrettes left overs and the hidden green bottle on the left... 

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PART IV – PAINTINGS ON THE CEILING


This room as some great paintins on the ceiling. Sadly a lot of the ceiling couldn't be repaired and so there's only a few paintings... 


A detail of the painting. 


The centre part of the ceiling. As you can see it's not everything repaired... 


The main piece in the centre. 


This painting on the ceiling seems like my town in the old times... That building you see up in the hill on the right side is Serra do Pilar, already in Gaia (the city next to us). 


This painting here seems like Sintra, a lovely city near Lisbon. This seems to me like Palácio da Pena... but I'm not sure if it really is... 


And this is the door case, which I absolutely love! Just imagine those door cases in our homes! :) 

PALÁCIO DO FREIXO

PART III – STUCCO CEILINGS


There are three rooms with stucco ceilings. They all are very grand but it's hard to photograph them cause in the room there's some placards with photos from the exhibition about cars... So, don't find it strange that the photos are in such weird angles. 


This is a detail. 


This is a detail from the detail! :) 


The centre of that stucco ceiling. 


Another detail (it's not centered cause I didn't want to get in my photo that damn placards...)! 


This is another room. Very beautiful as well. As you can see it is lacking something in the middle of that heraldic bearing... 


Another view from that room. Here you can see that damn placards.... :( 


Another missing stuff in another heraldic bearing. 


This is another room. This one's really cool. It has asian figures. 


Just look at this bird cage! Amazing, uh? 


The door case from one of that rooms! Once it was grand... Sadly not anymore... :( 


The wall was once grand also... I hope they will repair it! 


Once again... a once grand wall.... 

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PART II - CHAPELL


A detail from the dome... an angel on the column....


This is a close up to the dome! :) So beautiful! I loved it! :)


We can actually get to the dome... which is really cool! :) And the best part of it is that those doors can be opened (well, they probably shouldn't be opened, but I wanted to photograph and no one was there, so I did it anyway!). Those fellows you see there are my grandparents! :)


This was just a trial to get a great shot I saw on a pro photo of this chapell... sadly it didn't came out that good... :(


The other great thing on this tiny chapell is this dome.


The first thing you notice when entering the chapell is the altar (actually it has nothing more...). It's a beautiful altar, too bad the saint has no head...


This is the ceiling of the room before getting to the chapell. It's just a grand ceiling, too bad the room ain't restaured yet, so it has nothing on it. 

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From now on (I mean, till I've showed you the entire building) I'll post everyday (at least I hope I get to post everyday) photos from a different part of Palácio do Freixo (Freixo's Palace). It's situated between Porto and Valbom and it is mainly closed, it only opens when there's any exhibition on. It is damn worth the visit (I was there 2 times to get to photograph and film everything!). Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I do! :)

PART I - HALL


Here you can see the great cealing! :)



The moorish door.


Another view from the door...

Hell yeah! :) Think Spring! :) The nice weather has arrived! :) Altough we've had a non-rainy Winter, the temperature was damn cold and since yesterday I'm using my Summer tank tops due to the warm weather! :) Awee!! I'm happy! I love warm weather! :) 

Another sign of urban art around here... This lamp is actually a recurrent desing over here... it is spread all over town and I like it! :) 

Just ruins' marks on a wall... I love it cause it is really colourful! :) 

This is another store... And the window's always so damn great that this time I couldn't help myself and actually photographed it! Don't you just love those three beautiful fans? :) 

This is Goethe Institut, where I study german. The building is very beautiful, and on the inside the ceilings are all very interesting... 

I know this is just a store... But it's a really fancy and trendy shop. I've never been inside it... the door is always locked and you have to ring to get in there... the stuff sold there are all very casual-"chique". 

I had never saw this house's beauty... I always pass it by without looking up to this beautiful balcony... In this same house is located that "Salão Nova Vaga" hairdresser. 

I had never saw this house's beauty... I always pass it by without looking up to this beautiful balcony... In this same house is located that "Salão Nova Vaga" hairdresser. 

The house next to the other one is also beautiful! :) 

The same house, but this time the 1st floor. Sadly it clashes with the building next to it (as you can see... that modern building looking like a box with many windows...). 

There are a few houses in Avenida da Boavista that are very beautiful. I enjoyed this detail above the door... 

This is and ad to a hairdresser... it looks to me like a old-fashioned hairdresser... but I always loved this ad and last time I went by I photographed it... that's too bad it's already so worn out... but I enjoy it even though... 

Aweee!!! :) :) So I can finally post again!! Thank God!! I couldn't stand anymore not being able to open any window blog-related!!
That's why for this last week I haven't visited any of your blogs and haven't answered your comments on mine... But now I've answered all the comments left unanswered and I hope I can still today visit all of your blogs...
But sadly I can't post anything right now cause (as always) I'm late to Uni... :S
Hopefully I'll be able to post when I come home, but if not, at least tomorrow (as it is my day off) I'll post! ;) And I do have a lot to post...

 

This was an afternoon I went to meet some friends at the bar in Praia dos Ingleses (Englishmen Beach)... and the beach was like this. 

Such a relaxing view... 

The water after hitting the rocks... 

 

The sea hits the rocks with its power and the sound is sooooooo calming! 

The sun was setting and so the day was getting darker... and I enjoyed it! It was fabulous to see the light going away.... 

The sea was uneased... it was beatiful to see... 

This was chilly day... but yet I felt good strolling around Avenida Brasil (Brasil Avenue) with my grandparents... 

Last Sunday I went for a walk with my grandad and I did some shots I was dying to, but couldn't since it was impossible to do them while driving... The ones portraited here are just about Casa da Música (Music House), a building causing a lot of trouble and talking here, since it is so very modern comparing to the place where it's built... Anyway, I think it should be in another place, but I like the architecture of the building... but sadly I've no ideia who was the architecht...


So I went to Rotunda da Boavista, whose real name is Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque, who (as you can - or not - read in this shot) a Mozambique's governor. This is where "the box" (as we sometimes call to that building) is.

And this is a self-portait to prove that I was actually there! :) 

This is just a closer shot to show you all a very cool detail... As you can see here, the windows are in a wave shhape... I had no ideia that glass could be used like this in windows... But it's great! Ain't it? 

This is the other side of it. It's a very strange building... 

That's just another shot of it... Sadly those ladies decided to stay there.... 

And this was made last Sunday, while I went for a walk with mygrandad (we both need to exercise). As you can see it's much more ready than a month ago. 

This was another shot I made while driving... well I was stopped in the Red Light, as you can see, so I'm not that suicidal! 

This one was shot maybe a month ago, and as you can see it was still under heavy construction. 

Just a quick post before I got to bed... This was the sky today... this effect just lasted a few moments, glad I was able to grab my cam and photographed it, cause it was a very beautiful sky! :) So enjoy!


Sadly I couldn't get this shot without having that stuff on the corner...

The sky was damn beautiful!