Full of memories

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:42:16 +0000

“I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.”

This is what my friend used to say. He would understand me when I say now that this glass is not empty, it is full of memories. Because you see, this glass turns a chapter and a new story from what happened last night.

I was in Paris, at the Louvre. And the Mona Lisa is now neatly stored in my backpack.

You see, I suffer from boredom. It’s a chronic condition that doctors have tried to fix, with medication, meditation, therapies of all sort, long and short. It was not for lack of trying, and I did get tired of it all. So much I began to look for alternatives.

Fortunately, having stolen a precious necklace and made interesting investments and further enterprises, careful and delicate heists, money is not a problem.

But my life story is not important. What is important is what brought me here, to this nice café and restaurant in old Lisbon in the first day of the year.

You see, the holiday season is odd in many ways, one of which is the way we schedule work and time off. And more, it is as if people start thinking differently for those two months. I wanted to take advantage of that. I spent a great part of the year studying the Louvre and its people. Their schedule, their habits and even their names. A nice gentleman worked there, Leclerc, who had some amazing stories to tell. We shared beers after work a few times and I could have spent days listening to what he had to teach.

Being a janitor allowed me to access most areas of the museum and even to meet Cosette. She works in the gift shop and once in a while I would see her stroll along the art, with a smile on her face and a glow in her eyes. This morning, Cosette woke up to find a copy of her favourite painting, the sunflowers by Van Gogh. It’s not really a copy, I stole the original last year and replaced it with a decent forgery, purchased in a summer in Italy from my favourite counterfeiter. It will be vastly more appreciated in Cosette’s little apartment than in any museum of the world.

They will eventually find my trail, if they look behind the fake Mona Lisa and see my calling card in the back. They will however not find anything past the street, as I left in a private plane and bribed the air traffic controller that was on call.

And now, here I am, enjoying the winter sun in Lisbon and a meal with a nice glass of red wine. I wanted Rosé, however this will do.

You see now why I think this glass is full of memories? It culminates a plan that I was weaving for the last year, a year when I didn’t feel bored. A year when I met and enjoyed the company of Mademoiselle Cosette and Monsieur Leclerc. Wonderful people, with whom sharing the glass of wine would have been heaven. And now, I don’t know what is next. Maybe I will go back to Paris, as It would be thrilling meeting them again once the questioning of the disappearance of break in to the Louvre is sorted out and they stop questioning why, apparently, nothing was stolen.

Joana Rita Sousa

Era uma vez um copo. Parece que o optimista e o pessimista foram derrotados pelo realista, que simplesmente bebeu o que lá havia. E agora? Duas vezes meio cheio, de nada, ou duas vezes meio vazio, de tudo?

:: @brunoamaral :: https://t.co/5MCfcP65s4
— 🟣 joana rita sousa 🦄 💩💎 (@JoanaRSSousa) January 3, 2018

Luis Correia

breakfast, morning commute, meetings, work, lunch, gym, snacks and a long walk home.

there’s a glimpse of daylight in the sky, dusk is taking control now. cat purrs while I take my high heels off and opened a Chianti bottle. as always, there’s new arrivals at Netflix today and I choose one. bottle is now empty, glass will be soon. as I doze off, I wonder: “why?”

António Lopes

“Alcohol free 2018” #3wordsstories

Upload Lisbon

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:15:58 +0000

This page exists with two purposes. The first, to help you follow the event and not miss what is truly important. The second, to show how blogs are greatly underestimated.

The first section is curated content, by me and Pedro Rebelo. Below you will find the instagram and twitter streams for #uplx2014.

Top picks

Afternoon

First panel

Estratégia de conexões no ecossistema #POE para potenciar as marcas na visão Mindshare. #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/cHflIz9faP

— Mindshare Portugal (@MindsharePT) October 4, 2014

@NunoFRodrigues @brunoamaral é má onda… faz parte mas é má onda. a BBH tb mostrou KLM mas muiiiiito refundido

— Diogo Reffóios Cunha (@reffoioscunha) October 4, 2014

Apresentação simples e concisa do @RicardoNunes. Grande case study o da @MazdaPortugal. #uplx2014

— Bruno Nunes (@tweetsdobruno) October 4, 2014

Reforçados do almoço voltamos ao @UploadLisboa Lisboa com a apresentação de Filipe Almeida. #uplx2014 https://t.co/uZ1Xnkdt6E

— nAV (@nAV_escs) October 4, 2014

#uplx2014 o peso do canal online passou de 7% para mais de 30% #seguros

— Michela Viaggi (@micviag) October 4, 2014

"A agência tem de participar na criação da estratégia, processos, negócios e produtos e não apenas na comunicação." #uplx2014

— Upload Lisboa (@UploadLisboa) October 4, 2014

Parry Malm #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/Hv7Ztqe7dM

— Diana Teixeira (@Didi_bt) October 4, 2014

Facto: As pessoas que deviam estar em eventos como o #uplx2014, jamais marcarão presença. São as mesmas pessoas que tomam decisões.

— iPhil (@iPhil) October 4, 2014

@ParryMalm "CRM Re-targeting: usar os e-mails do nosso target para lhes mostrarmos anúncios altamente relevantes." #uplx2014

— Upload Lisboa (@UploadLisboa) October 4, 2014

#uplx2014 momento alto de interacção com audiência #fb pic.twitter.com/WQfB7wAGOg

— Francisco Taira (@franciscotaira) October 4, 2014

Coffee break

O coffee break fez se p isto : interacção social (media) #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/PAe3apGRhz

— Joana Rita Sousa (@JoanaRSSousa) October 4, 2014

Second panel

o homem do laço (@browserd) e a #polaroid no #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/EF9SBrBlxZ

— Bruno Amaral (@brunoamaral) October 4, 2014

#uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/SEo6WMaL51

— Eva (@eva_erg) October 4, 2014

"The power of social media is relationship", @mollyflatt. #uplx2014

— Marcos Melo (@marcos_melo) October 4, 2014

Content addicts @mollyflatt #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/DlgwjCslK2

— Marcos Melo (@marcos_melo) October 4, 2014

"Their content matters more than yours", @mollyflatt. #uplx2014

— ESCS MAGAZINE (@ESCS_MAGAZINE) October 4, 2014

as Woody Allen said — 'Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.' #uplx2014 @mollyflatt pic.twitter.com/VlnA5kCpvj

— Roberto Estreitinho (@restreitinho) October 4, 2014

Im loving Molly Flatt and her videos #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/atHHRZzsFr

— Rita Sofia Meneses (@ritasofimeneses) October 4, 2014

.@mollyflatt you NAILED IT! #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/YzYhHTSuWQ

— Roberto Estreitinho (@restreitinho) October 4, 2014

Im listening 😉 #uplx2014 pic.twitter.com/4jS2XBqF6G

— Rita Sofia Meneses (@ritasofimeneses) October 4, 2014

Fora de brincadeiras, preocupa-me que uma plateia de profissionais de SM fique tão fascinada com marcas a falar como pessoas. #uplx2014

— F. Vieira Fernandes (@orapazdafabrica) October 4, 2014

About where social media stands: "We're teenagers, we're still learning. " @wadds #uplx2014

— Tats (@TatianaAlbino) October 4, 2014

Morning

Second Panel

Great start to #uplx2014 with the awesome @juliancole presenting his free digital toolbox pic.twitter.com/pZjBNU64dl

— Molly Flatt (@mollyflatt) October 4, 2014

Watching @juliancole and thinking that probably this is going to be one of the best presentations today. #uplx2014

— Pedro Garcia (@PMiguelGarcia) October 4, 2014

#uplx2014 #websites #similarweb – https://t.co/GlX5oVNlbV an excellent example how to follow our statistics of our website (its estimated)

— move:forward (@moveforwardpr) October 4, 2014

Que o #juliancole está a agarrar a audiência de uma forma espectacular RT @portugaltc: Estamos no #uplx2014 O que estão a achar?

— Pedro Rebelo (@browserd) October 4, 2014

@juliancole a primeira apresentação com conteúdo! #uplx2014

— Ana Albergaria (@Ananixi) October 4, 2014

Someone said #blogs on #uplx2014? Call those guys that say blogs are dead. Like Zed. ‘cause Zed is dead baby, Zed is dead…

— Pedro Rebelo (@browserd) October 4, 2014

Monitorização, estatística, content refreshing, monitorização, estatística, content refreshing 🙂 @marcos_melo #uplx2014

— Rúben Neves (@rubeneves) October 4, 2014

Real time mkt doesn’t mean real real time RT @PedroMGama: #uplx2014 how do you get the client to agree with everything you do, on real time

— Pedro Rebelo (@browserd) October 4, 2014

First panel

Daniel Caeiro’s reaction to a mention to the Web of Things:

Tenho medo que o meu casaco fale. Infelizmente não sei mandarim #uplx2014

— Daniel Caeiro (@danielcaeiro) October 4, 2014

it’s pitchable RT @brunoamaral: Eu que tenho mau feitio, alguém me distingue performance marketing de … sei lá … Todo o marketing? #uplx2014

— Roberto Estreitinho (@restreitinho) October 4, 2014

Dois amigos à conversa em cima do palco… Muito bom! #uplx2014

— Cláudia Costa (@claudiaccosta) October 4, 2014

"Como é que os wearables podem trazer valor à nossa vida?" Kwame Ferreira #uplx2014

— Upload Lisboa (@UploadLisboa) October 4, 2014

#uplx2014 discussão sobre novas formas de pub e performance é relevante; mas não esquecer que sem reputação e brand love, não funciona

— João Duarte (@duartej) October 4, 2014

Startup startup startup startup, etc #uplx2014

— Micaela Lizardo (@mikasLizardo) October 4, 2014

Incentivo à natalidade do @pedrojanela a fonalizar com "mais vale duro do que mole" #uplx2014

— Tats (@TatianaAlbino) October 4, 2014

Digital Insanity Magazine by Bruno Amaral

Full of memories

Joana Rita Sousa

Luis Correia

António Lopes

Upload Lisbon

Top picks

Afternoon

First panel

Coffee break

Second panel

Morning

Second Panel

First panel