Some excellent posts have already been written on today's events by Rebecca Nesbit and Sillypunk, but I thought I'd add my own impressions now that my brain has cooled down enough to string a semi-coherent sentence together.
It was rather surreal to walk into Rothamsted Park around eleven thirty on a brilliantly sunny day to see chestnut trees in bloom, families walking dogs and a massive police presence. Members of both the anti-gm protest and the pro-research counterprotest had already arrived and assembled in their separate camps at the back of the park, and after a slightly confused few minutes during which I attempted to join the wrong group I found the counterprotest and started putting a few faces to Twitter handles.
Police horses looking cool in sunglasses
Both groups quickly did their best to live up to their stereotypes, with the anti-gm protestors singing folksongs and members of the pro-research group huddling in the shade to be better able to see their lcd screens and swapping tips on extending phone battery life. It quickly became apparent though that we were so far apart that any dialogue between groups would have to be conducted by semaphore so in dribs and drabs we wandered over to the anti-gm protest to hear what the speakers had to say.
Although after the media briefing Rothamsted scientists had originally planned to talk to Take the flour back in the park, with their refusal to rule out destructive measures it was considered best for them to stay behind the police line and for protestors to be escorted to them in small groups. Sadly there didn't seem to be much interest in discussions with them, an attitude I encountered myself when I asked for a right of reply to the speeches which contained some misinterpretations (the trial was asserted to be useless because it was carried out in spring wheat wheareas winter wheat which is more widely grown in the UK, and I would have likeld the opportunity to explain that it was only a proof of concept trial, rather than a trial of the final variety) and some outright misunderstandings (the incorrect statement that the wheat contains a gene from cows, the claim that gm crops were directly responsible for the suicides of thousands of farmers in India). I was told in no uncertain terms by the chap directing the speakers that they didn't want to listen because they'd already heard everything I would have to say in the media. I found this a rather depressing attitude - so many of the speakers were repeating completely unverifiable or downright untrue claims and I thought it was sad that they weren't willing to consider the evidence for and against these claims. I know I keep linking to this blog post but it's an excellent discussion of the perceptual filters that colour our view of the world - surely the only way to become aware of and evaluate the distorting effect of these filters is to be willing to consider the evidence for and against your poistion?
I have to admit that by this point I was feeling rather dispirited, and as nothing much seemed to be happening at this point I went off in search of lunch (the biggest winner of the day was probably the Harpenden Farmers' Market, which was doing a roaring trade to members of both groups) with a couple of other protestors. This proved to be a slight tactical miscalculation as just as we got back to the park the anti-gm group flocked towards the Rothamsted fence, forcing us geeks, already weakened by exposure to sunlight, to break into a run.
Anti-gm protestors assemble by the fence.
Things did look tense for a few moments, and several protestors split off from the main group and raced towards what they thought were gaps in the police line. However there were easily more police present than protestors in both camps together and they were quickly apprehended and turned away. There was a moment's confusion when I mistook the person organising a sitdown protest on Twitter for a member of the pro-research camp and tried to encourage our group to join in, and further confusion when Take the flour back mistook me for a supporter, but after that excitement things calmed down and the remainder of the protest was peaceful with no further attempts to enter the site.
Protestors attempting to enter the site are turned away by police
We then initiated our own sit down, chow down protest and ate our lunch and it was at that point that things started to get interesting. Until that point all our attempts at initiating dialogue had been rebuffed, but at this point people started coming up to us to talk. One woman was extremely angry and delivered a lecture on how transgenes could contaminate the soil and the rain before storming away, followed by her tweenage son who clearly wished he was somewhere else, but we did speak to a fair number of people interested in genuine conversations about their concerns and in finding common ground. Discussions with a group of Permaculture students from Bristol were particularly fascinating, and certainly helped me to get a better understanding of peoples' concerns.
What I think I took away from this was that there are three main strands of concerns about genetic modification:
The idea that genomes are sacrosanct and any movement of genes between organisms is unacceptable meddling with nature. As a scientist familiar with natural examples of gene transfer between organisms this isn't a position I can agree with, indeed I consider it to be amazing evidence of how connected all organisms are, but I can understand that it is an article of faith for some people and, like religious faith, not really amenable to change by debate.
Concerns over the safety of gm crops, both to the environment and to human health. This is an area where I really feel we can challenge misinformation, as these claims are verifiable by empirical evidence rather than personal belief. The challenge is to ensure the evidence isn't disbelieved because of concerns about the biases or hidden agenda of the person presenting it, but by being open and honest throughout the process I hope we can combat these impressions.
Concerns about the application and commercialisation of gm crops. Although my opinion of the necessity of the fundamental research hasn't changed, one positive consequence of these discussions is that I've learned a lot about the issues involved in this. To my mind this is an argument for campaigning to ensure that legislation catches up with the technology that has run ahead, rather than for slowing the technology down, but it certainly has made me think harder about how scientific advances are likely to be implemented, rather than simply how they occur.
One thing I am certain of though is that the openness with which Rothamsted has conducted this discussion has helped, by making those people who were curious enough to question feel they could approach us for a dialogue. Long may the conversation continue. Only not tonight please, I'm knackered.
THIS POST IS MY PERSONAL OPINION AND NOT ENDORSED BY ROTHAMSTED. ROTHAMSTED WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE A PROTEST OR COUNTER PROTEST AT ALL, BUT THIS HAS GATHERED SO MUCH MOMENTUM ON TWITTER NOW I THINK IT'S INEVITABLE AND WE SHOULD START THINKING ABOUT HOW TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING STAYS CIVIL.
A team of Rothamsted scientists will be at Rothamsted Park, Harpenden AL5 2EF to answer questions from 11.30 on Sunday the 27th of May - do go and talk to them, they're nice people.
If you're coming from London, when you get off the train go out the station exit to the left of the direction you were travelling, then follow the hill down. There's a pub on the corner called the Harpenden Arms - turn left after that, cross at the crossing, cross the green then follow the road to the left. The entrance to the park is just after the town hall/
It looks as though there will now be three protests happening in Rothamsted Park on Sunday the 27th of May - the anti-gm protest which aims to destroy the field trial, an alternative peaceful protest which wants to express oposition to genetic modification without vandalising the trial and a #geekmob counterprotest in support of the trial. To the first group I would obviously say please don't, but I hope something positive can come out of this by offering an opportunity for dialogue between the second two groups if everyone follows these guidelines:
There aren't many trains into Harpenden, so you'll probably end up travelling with members of the other camp. This is a great opportunity for dialogue but please remember there'll be other passengers on the trains who just want to nurse their Saturday night hangovers in peace so please keep it calm.
By all means bring placards, banners, pixel poi and Arduino LED displays but keep the messages attacking points not people. "Down with this sort of thing" is good, "your muzzer was an amstere, and your fazzer smelled of elderbereees" is not helpful.
The same goes for engaging people in discussion - remember that the person you're talking to may not have the same grounding in the subject you do or access to the same information, but they're an intelligent person doing what they sincerely believe to be best for planet and people. As an entomologist I'm not so keen on the phrase "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" - vinegar will work perfectly well if you're after vinegar flies, and you catch most Musca sorbens with shit which doesn't make a very good cliche, but it is true that if someone is wrong you're more likely to change their mind through rational argument than by insulting their intelligence.
Listen. Let the other person explain their concerns.
If someone isn't extending you the same courtesy, walk away. You will not be able to have a productive discussion.
If things are getting heated, and you feel safe doing so, you can deescalate the situation by sitting down.
Do not attempt to physically prevent anyone from destroying crops. Not only might this lead to ugly confrontations, the more people there are on the site the harder it will be for the police to stop people intent on destroying the trial and the more likely it is that something important will be trampled accidentally.
Finally, and most importantly, PLEASE DON'T DESTROY THE TRIAL..
3D printing is a pretty fascinating form of manufacturing technology in my opinion; there are many branches of 3D printing such as Stereolithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Multi-Jet Modeling (MJM), or Ink Jet 3D printing. Each form of additive manufacturing is significant in its own way through its own niches. I'd like to cover some applications of each.
Stereolithography or SLA methods involve ultraviolet beams of light hitting curable resins to result in final parts. These parts play an active role in creating many medical applications. For example, SLA methods are dominant in the 3D printing world for dental applications, hearing aids, and similar implants. SLA 3D printing has been great for creating extremely precise parts.
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) stands out in the 3D printing world as "metal 3D printing" for a reason: it is metal 3D printing! Through a layer by layer process of using laser technology to melt powdered metal together, it isn't difficult to manufacture intricate organic metal pieces. DMLS is known for "one-upping" the machining industry. When parts can be manufactured in a matter of hours at detail levels far superior than traditional machining, 3D printing caught the attention of product developers and engineers. Not to mention, DMLS is almost entirely geometrically independent when it comes down to designing parts; good bye machinists and CNC cutting, hello DMLS 3D printing!
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is very similar to DMLS, but typically it just revolves around different materials. Layers of material powder will be stacked up on a build table and melted together in accordance to the design, just like DMLS. The part will be able to "float" within a bed of powder, so supports aren't necessary! This technology is great for product developers and designers around the globe, as a wide variety of materials can be made at great detail without the use of supports!
Fused Deposition modeling (FDM) is an interesting form of 3D printing, and one of the most popular. Essentially, a nozzle aided by a computer will draw from a spool of material in wire form. This nozzle is very hot, and will melt the material and stack the melted material layer by layer to create a final product. Think about a hot glue gun as an analogy; material (or the glue) will be pushed through the hot nozzle, and the glue (or material) will be stacked up to make a final product. Stratasys, a 3D printing company, truly outdid themselves when they developed this technology and they are making it more affordable than ever!
Multi-Jet Modeling (MJM) is very similar to FDM technology. Imagine the same exact process, except there are multiple nozzles. Objet, another well respected 3D printing company, did a great job when they came out with "digital material," in which multiple colors and materials can be used in a single print.
Ink Jet 3D Printing is one of my favorite styles, as it allows for full color prints out of sandstone like material. It is very similar to DMLS and SLS methods, as it stacks up layers of material powder and fuses them together. There are two large differences between those two and Ink Jet printing. Ink jet printing does not use a laser to melt pieces together, it uses an adhesive chemical to bond the powder together. At each layer, the ink jet itself will actually color the product in accordance to the design! You can have your face printed! Full character models and great prototypes result from this technology. The only down side to this in my opinion, is that the product pulled from the printer is very weak, and filled with around 40% air. To fix this, technicians will dip the product in a super glue like liquid or epoxy to infiltrate the product... then you have your piece!
In response researchers at Rothamsted have taken the unusual step of appealing directly to these activists, in an open letter from John Pickett in New Scientist and a video appeal from Gia Aradottir:
John Pickett also appeared on Newsnight last week, and was barely able to get a word in edgeways (from 22 minutes).
Speaking as someone with more than a passing interest of science communication the strategy Rothamsted are persuing is fascinating - this is the first time I've seen seen scientists trying to engage protestors over the strong values that have led them to protest, rather than assuming that they'll change their minds if provided with more facts. Perhaps as a result. the news coverage of this particular scientific issue has been excellent, with the Guardian for example providing a contrasting point of view from a qualified scientist rather than whichever contrarian the journalist has on speed dial. Speaking as a scientist, the prospect that this group can simply propose to stroll up and destroy years of vital work is deeply worrying.
Wheat is a vital crop, estimated in 2007 to provide 530 calories per person per day. Over 650 million metric tonnes of wheat were produced in 2010 on almost 217 million hectares of land. As these mindboggling figures show, wheat cultivation is vital to our ability to feed the world's population, and likely to become more so as the population increases. Almost two million hectares are devoted to wheat cultivation in the UK alone. We typically think of aphids as a minor nuisance, a threat to our kitchen windowsill coriander and broad beans, if we think of them at all but these innocous looking insects are capable of reducing wheat yields by up to 33% under the right circumstances 1. In the UK cereal insect outbreaks are typically treated with insecticides such as HallmarkZeon or Aphox.
The need to provide food for an ever expanding world population in an increasingly unpredictable climate, whilst reducing the environmental damage caused by current industrial farming techniques, is something that Rothamsted scientist are just as concerend about as the environmental protestors planning on disrupting their work. Indeed this trial, like so much of Rothamsted's other work, aims to provide practical tools to address these issues. No one is denying that the current system of food distribution is thoroughly inequitable, that the fact that famines and "Man Vs Food" can exist on the same planet is obscene, that women desperately need access to the contraceptives they want to protect their health and plan their families or that we need urgent action on the greenhouse emissions making the climate less hospitable for agriculture year by year, but none of this will happen overnight. In the short term we need new technologies, to feed more people from the same or even less land using fewer energy intensive and potentially environmentally damaging inputs like pesticides. That is where this wheat comes in.
The wheat in this trial produces aphid alarm pheromone, an airborne signal which aphids use to alert others to danger. This deters other aphids from landing close by and may attract natural predators by informing them that there are injured aphids nearby which will make an easy meal. This signalling system was "hacked" by plants in the mint family millenia ago, allowing them to naturally produce their own version of the pheromone which tricks aphids into thinking that they're a dangerous place to feed and so keeps them safe from predation. The trial aims to see whether this protection can be introduced into wheat.
Aphids responding to alarm pheromone
There does seem to be quite a lot of misinformation out there about this trial - firstly, the wheat does not contain a cow gene. What it contains is a synthetic promoter which has some sequence similarity to a cow promoter, which is not in fact the Laughing Cow's theatrical agent: a promoter is a short DNA sequence in front of a gene which tells the organism which circumstances to make the gene product under - at night say, or only in leaves. If the gene product is a birthday cake, the gene could be theought of as the recipe for the cake and the promoter would be your diary with a list of bakeworthy friends' birthdays, telling you when to make the cake. The cake in this case is the protein producing aphid alarm pheromone, the gene or recipe comes from a mint plant and the promoter had to be different from any promoters in the wheat already so the researchers could be sure it wouldn't be accidentally turned on in the wrong circumstances. It's basically the equivalent of a lot of random Filofax pages which were bound together by the researchers into something which happened to ressemble the diary of a sentient cow who knew how to bake birthday cakes and owned a Filofax. I'll stop there before I disappear up my own analogy, but you get the picture.
A number of measures have been taken to ensure that this wheat cannot escape into the wider environment. The variety of wheat selected for the trial is self pollinating, and the plot is surrounded by a buffer zone of barley, with which the wheat cannot cross-pollinate, far wider than the distance the heavy pollen can be blown ion the wind. The fact that it is self pollinating also means that contrary to some concerns out there, pollinating insects like bees and butterflies are not exposed to gm pollen.
Concerns have also been raised about the possibility of apids evolving resistance to the alarm pheromone, citing the fact that insects evolve insecticide resistance. This is extremely unlikely: not only have aphids been exposed to alarm pheromone produced by the mint family for millenia without deveoping resistance, but unlike the situation with insecticides evolving resistance to alarm pheromone would have significant costs to an aphid, making it less responsive to genuine alarm pheromone and hence at greater risk of becoming a tasty snack for passing ladybirds already chomping on its sisters.
Wheat fields, image from Rothamsted Research
A lot has also been made of the fact that this is spring wheat, not winter wheat which is more widely cultivated in the UK. Somehow the fact that this is a preliminary trial doesn't seem to have been explained - this test in spring wheat is only to find out whether the modified plants do indeed suffer less aphid damage. If this is inedeed the case the technology could be used in other varieties.
That's not to say there are no legitimate concerns about gm technology. With antibiotic resistance on the rise the use of antibiotic resistance genes as markers is being phased out. I presume an antibiotic resistance gene was used in this trial because it has been running for so long that it was started before alternatives became available but I have to admit that I don't know the reasoning behind this for certain. However, as I noted above this is a preliminary trial to test whether the principle works, rather than the finished agricultural product - if this wheat were to be developed further I'm sure a different marker system would be used. While the risks of horizontal gene transfer of antibiotic resistance genes into bacteria from this trial are not zero, they are negligible when compared with the large scale routine use of antibiotics in the meat industry.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone to argue that anything Monsanto has done is beneficial, but just because a technology has been used for profit with little concern for the environment doesn't mean the technology is inherently bad - a gun and a teaspoon are both made by metalwork but that does not mean they're used for the same thing2. The patenting of gene variants assosciated with breast cancer was recently overturned, but the fact that this particular technology was inappropriately commercialised doesn't invalidate the entire practice of genetic tests for disease.
Wheat field, image from Rothamsted Research
In the interests of full disclosure I should start be saying that I am a Phd student at Rothamsted. Part of my funding is provided through Rothamsted, although it will stop being provided through Rothamsted at the end of May when I come to the end of my PhD, at which point it will be provided by two blindness charities and most probably my ability to stack shelves in a grocery store. My work is nothing to do with this wheat project, but the aspect that concerns insect olfaction is partially supervised by John Pickett. I realise this leaves me open to suggestions that I'm biased because I'm too close to this research, but I'm sure a lot of the people supporting Take Back the Flour are commintted environmentalists with jobs dedicated to improving sustainability - by that logic should they not be allowed to hold opinions on environmental matters? My connection to Rothamsted allows me to know a little bit about the project and the participants; it means that I know both John Pickett and Gia Aradottir, and know that they are fundamentally decent people who are not doing this out of malice or for personal profit. John Pickett has an infectious laugh, plays the trumpet in a local jazz band and is the sort of person who can't bear to see a penniless student in a pub without a drink, a situation which he will always seek to remedy. He also knows a truly terrifying amount about how insects react to odours. Gia is one of the most compassionate people out there - she supported me when I had depression and I honestly don't think I would still be doing this PhD if it hadn't been for her. I don't know Toby Bruce very well, but whenever I run into him in the kitchen he always asks me how my writeup is going, and I always say fine and smile uneasily. In short, they are perfectly pleasant human beings who don't wander about in labcoats bulging with wads of industrial cash, zapping corn dollies with lightning to make make Frankenflour whilst cackling maniaically.
It lives! It lives!
I realise that I'm also open to the charge of hypocrisy, as my coeliac disease means I can't eat this genetically modified wheat or indeed any other wheat. If wheat were ever genetically modified to be gluten-free though, you can bet I'd eat it like a shot.
I'm a scientist but also consider myself an environmentalist. I first heard about Take the Flour Back from the newsletter of the Low Impact Living Initiative, to which I subscribe. I have the full crunchy-granola starter kit of Keep Cup, Mooncap and garden wormery, and most importantly I know which goes where. I grow garden veg, worry about food miles, carry my purchases from the People's Supermarket home by public transport in my reusable Turtle Bag, and keep rotting kitchen scraps for composting in a tin labelled "biscuits" to trick the unwary.
Watching Newsnight was an odd experience for me because the Take the Flour Back speaker, Jyoti Fernanades, is in many ways living my dream - she has a mixed smallholding in Dorset which she farms sustainably and teaches courses on. I've always harboured a secret dream of finding some land in the west country, building a cob or strawbale house, planting a forest garden and keeping bees and silkworms, maybe some livestock. If I'd encountered her in other circumstances I'd probably have considered her a fellow traveller, so it was strange to hear her on television espousing views that I disagree with entirely. I'm also rather disappointed that Transition Heathrow, who are doing great things on an abandoned market garden near where I live, are supporting this action.
I'm not saying this to ask for a cookie (although a cookie would be nice, especially if it was made out of the afforementioned gluten-free wheat) but to demonstrate that it's possible to both be a scientist and care about the environment. In fact it's not just possibly, I'm guessing it's common.
I care because I'm a human - the natural world is an incredibly beautiful place and nothing can approach the pleasure of walking the same route every day for years and watching it change through the seasons, from the bleak grey of winter through the merest hint of green to a riot of hawthorne and elder, or the joy of locking eyes with a robin whilst gardening and feeling, just for a fraction of a second, a moment of connection, or the awe I felt seeing the Milky Way from Africa, free of light pollution for the first time. I plan on spawning some day, and I want my theoretical future children to be able to experience that same wonder. But I also care as a scientist - awe is magnified by understanding.
I remember the first time I learned about the water cycle and the nitrogen cycle in primary school, realising how nothing is created or destroyed but that we are all part of a finite closed system. I remember the first time I saw an insect under a microscope at secondary school (oddly ebough it was a housefly), being astounded by the precise construction of this tiny living thing, with all it hairs and protrusions and graceful curves. I remember thinking "Wow, if a fly looks like that what must I look like under a microscope?" and being so disappointed when I put my own finger under and found it to be featureless, realising for the first time that humans were not the most amazing things out there. I remember learning about evolution, the amazement I felt on realising that this blind, directionless system had designed beings that fit their environment so perfectly, the profound sense of connection I felt to the rest of the natural world on realising that all of us, earthworms and frogs and dandelions and amoebae and me, were built from the same basic building blocks by the same biochemical pathways. The natural world is more incredible than we can possibly imagine, and personally I feel that anything but a scientific appreciation of it sells it short.
I seem to have spent much of this post finding "-ist" words I can use to describe myself: scientist, environmentalist, ecologist. First and foremost though I'm a humanist - we are the only creatures on this planet who can feel that awe and wonder at the natural world and that makes us special, each and every one of the seven billion plus of us. If all of us are to be fed on a finite planet, and not just enough to survive but to thrive and to have the same opportunity I have to rejoice in all the glory of nature, then something has to give and I strongly believe that an evidence-based approach, considering all the technologies available to us, is the best way to ensure that as little has to give as possible.
In conclusion, supporters of Take the Flour Back must realise that the scientists conducting this experiement are ordinary people concerned about feeding an ever-growing population whilst reducing damage to our shared planet, just like they are. We need to keep talking and listening, building rather than destroying, because we're all on the same side here.
Well it’s been a while, to start with a bit of a blogging cliché. I took a bit of a break from blogging, and indeed from my PhD and much of my life, because of depression. I was going to write about the depression but then I realised you're here to read about insects and poo (at least I thought you were, though according to my page view statistics you're here to read about Crowded House and David Attenborough). If you really want to know what depression feels like I'd recommend reading this, which has to be one of the most heartbreaking things featuring pasta I've ever seen.
So I’m back at university, and I’m just about coping, and I’m going to see how far I can go. I want to get what I’ve done out there so it can be useful, and I’m assured that some of it would be publishable quality with a little bit more work, even if I have trouble believing that myself. Whether or not I go on to try for a PhD is a question for the future. I think that the focus of this blog will change a bit though; concentrating on my PhD to the exclusion of everything else probably contributed to my sprained brain, so I’m going to aim to write some more general entomological posts, reminding myself why I love this subject in all its multilegged glory in the first place. Hence the name change; I won't be doing any more fieldwork, and Geek in South West London doesn't have much of a ring to it.
Estas ilustrações foram-nos encomendadas para um artigo relacionado com BDSM para a edicão portuguesa da revista Penthouse. E apreciámos bastante fazer este trabalho...
Made these for a set depicting a BDSM related article commissioned by Portugal's Penthouse edition. Loved doing them, don't nkow why...
Na semana passada tivemos a oportunidade de trabalhar com o suplento de Sábado do jornal "i", Livros i Viagens (LiV) ao ilustrar o artigo "Livros para as suas férias", o conceito partiu da redacção, gostámos à primeira, caminho andado para este resultado final.
This past week we had the chance to work with "i" newspaper suplement LiV (Livros i Viagens - Books & Travel) illustrating the article "Livros para as suas férias" (Books for your holidays), the concept originated from the newsdesk, we liked it at first sight, a good half-way to this result.
Não temos podido divulgar trabalhos recentes, parte por ainda estarem em fases muito precoces e em parte porque (diz que) o segredo é a alma do negócio. Podemos adiantar que existem projectos para o futuro, próximo e longínquo. Deixamo-vos estes estudos para uma personagem que foi alterada, podemos portanto mostar estas peças ;)
Since we've been unable to divulge recent works, partly because they're still in precocious stages, partly for editorial sake. We can disclose tough, that projects exist, for the closer and distant future. Here's some character design's studies, the character has been changed, so we can disclose these ;)
Mais uma encomenda para a Penthouse Portugal, desta feita o desafio foi ilustrar um artigo sobre a descida, por vezes dura, realidade económica por parte de bem sucedidos jogadores de futebol quando a carreira acaba. Na maioria dos casos, jogos de azar, estilo de vida luxuosos e investimentos mal aconselhados são os carrascos...
Another commission for the portuguese Penthouse Magazine, this time the challenge was illustrating the fall to the, sometimes hard, economic reality by some sucessfull footbal players. Gambling, luxury & lifestyle and poorly advised investments are the executioners...
A propósito da mediática saga protagonizada pelo ex-presidente-do-FMI, e ex-próximo-provável-presidente-francê, fomos convidados a ilustrar uma rábula de Rui Zink para o i de sábad0, 21 de Maio intitulada "As Quedas de Viagara". "Virilidade" é o seu nome, da ilustração claro.
Following the mediatic circus concerning the ex-IMF-president and ex-next-probable-french-president, we were invited to illustrate a text by Rui Zink, published on i Newspaper Saturday, May 21. "Virility" is it's name, the illustration's of course.
Ohe! Os fere ussi! Nimis calidam mihi attulisti cafeam, Ansgari!
Ignoscas valde, amice!
Nihil est, iam bene...! Sed interpellavi te narraturum de itinere eo, quod Emeritam modo fecisti...
Optimum quod fuit, ut patet! Quam enim pulcherrimos ibi gentium degerimus dies vix unus qui crederet erit! De tempore occasioneque, de hominibus concurrentibus, de sessionibus necnon acroasibus habitis, de omnibus eius generis loquor rebus!
Sat enimvero laetus regredi videris!
Neque iniure, amice! Adde etiam illud, quod multi interfuerunt quos resalutavi amicos, ei quibuscum iam aliquot annos consuetudine amicitiaque arctissime coniuctus videor: sine sis eos numerem...
Iamiam me rogaturum de eis sentis...!
Imprimis ponas quaeso Salvatorem illum Bernet, hominem quo humaniorem doctioremque nusquam invenire possis, Rodericum illum Portela Vallisoletanum, peritissimus nonnullarum linguarum qui est, Antonium Gonzalez Amador, is qui una cum Aemilio Canales tanta gavisi sunt audacia necnon scientia ut depositis timoribus neglectisque vocibus funestis dirisque eis, quibus permulti sinistrum plane ominabantur praesagium, viam Latine docendi ne novam, immo traditam eam quam Ioannes Orbergius ille optimae memoriae bene meritus reponendam colendam adhibendam studuerat nostram in civitatem induxerint.
Iam satis, iam desine! Plurimos iam proclamasti! Sed quanta huc convenistis turba?
Neque multos adhuc audisti! Expecta sane paulisper: addere enim debes Alexandram illam Ramos, quae cathedraria profestrix apud Universitatem Gaditanam cum sit, nolens eadem trita atque insulsa ab aliis plerumque facta faciendaque facere ipsa, tanta gaudet doctrina audaciaque ut viam muniat defendat lustret quam iam multos abhinc annos humanistae ei, quos vocamus, emensisse creduntur.
An quasi humanistas ergo redivivos hanc in gentium partem confluere eos autumes...?
Sane dico dummodo illud compertum persuasumque habeas, quod nonnulli eorum tales sunt qui non modo libros traditos evolvant atque scrinia chartis referta oculis manibusque lustrent fatigentque, sed etiam in diariis, in paginis, in documentis interretialibus condendis conficiendis sustinendis evulgandis peritissimi evadere credantur...quod mirum valde!
Cur verbis opus est? Memoria enim adhuc teneo sententiam eam, iuxta quam nonnulli credere profitebantur aliquando linguam Latinam Graecamque, easdem quas falso non pauci mortuas habebant, Interreti crescente in dies necnon maius maiusque vigente fieri non posse quin suum diem ultimum atque obitum totum tales obiturae sint linguae...!
Id quod numquam evenerit, immo re vera contrarium plane in sensum res conversae sunt, tali autem modo ut Interrete hodie nihil aliud nisi optima via ad linguas nostras evulgandas roborandas exercendas esse videatur! Si forte quis negaverit, arcesso Carolum illum Cabanillas, peritissimum apud nos artium informaticarum, qui quidem sive primus sive principalis nostrum talem emensus est viam, plurima atque utilissima ad negotium nostrum condidit paravitque, quorum consensu omnium primum obtinet locum pagina illa cooperativa nomine CHIRON, quam multi alii sunt qui consulant, intrent, participent, exornent, locupletent, alii autem alieni qui invideant... hac videlicet causa, quia similem apud eos paginam habere non valeant...!
Sed de viris eis, qui dissertationes apud vos ullas habuerint iam aliquid dicas, quaeso!
A quo ergo incipiam eorum? Quia tales fuerunt ut si ordinare eos mihi necesse, melius credo ordinem temporis servandum esse! Primum ergo habuimus dissertatorem Chistophorum illum Sacre, homo doctissimus qui est idemque luculentissimus, qui quidem primis verbis Graece antiquo perbelle distincteque prolatis suis, omnium intentionem circunstantium tali modo allexerit, ut iam primo ictu devictos debellatos summissosque plane nos habuerit! De statu rerum quod ad linguam Graecam docendam discendamque pertinet primum loquens, transiit statim ad methodum suam cui inscriptio POLIS KOINE exhibendam commendandam divulgandam, quam iam abhinc multi sunt qui persecuturos se promiserint...
Itane? Tanta apud vos ille gratia valuit?
Iustissimamque esse eam credimus, ut patet! Sed ad alios iam venio: secundus ad nos Eduardus Engelsing advenit, cuius verba Latina splendidissima, aliquantulum accentu americano colorata, nos in linguam Latinam quasi apertam universamque induxerunt: habet quoque Eduardus ille methodum paratam propriam, quae speramus fore mox mox nostris in civitatibus venalis atque comparabilis nobis sit, talem gratiam necnon virtutem ad linguam discendam exhibere putamus.
Satis rerum vos habuisse videmini, amice!
Adde etiam illud, quod Aloisius Miraglia noster, notissimus apud nos iam homo, mirandus denuo non solus, tribus autem comitatus discipulis ante oculos versatus est omnium. Quid novi dicamus? De Villielmo illo Rouse ab Anglis oriundo deque eius optima necnon validissima utilisimaque adhuc opera totam per horam unam coram nobis disseruit tali autem acumine mentis ac purissimo lautissimoque Latino sermone adhibito ut incertum plane illud habeas, utrum maioris momenti argumentum an eius loquela fuisse videatur...
Tres credo eius discipulos adesse narrasti...
Mirandos omnino quos habeas! Qui quidem a magistro rogati quasi fabulas eas egerunt scaenicas quales ad linguam sive Latinam sive Graecam docendam aptae idoneaeque iam abhic multum temporis mente Rouse illius sodaliumque eius excogitatae fuerunt. At, cur me de eis narrante, nullum ut video crustulum sumas? An tibi ea non placeant?
Immo sapidissima sunt! Videas me iam duo sumpsisse...
Hahahahae! Euge, amice! Risum mihi movisti! Facetum enim illud, apud meos notissimum, mentem subito subiit...!
Narres id rogo, si dignum putas narratu...
Minimi est momenti, sed iuvat: audi ergo: nonnullae erant aliquando in oecu quodam conventae mulieres garriendi causa, ut credunt, tempus vespertinum acturae maiore sine cura adhibenda. Cum ad mensam catinum crustulorum refertum appositumque mulieres sederent, ubi quoque pocula cafeae apposita essent, tunc magna dulcedine femina hospes
Accipe, mea domina, crustulum quoddam! inquit, quin amabo sumas?
Ad quam tunc sodalis illa
Duo iam, gratias, sumpsi!
At nunc asperrime domina
Minime vero! Quattuor saltem eorum computavi sumpta!
Hahahae! Mira domina, quam narras! Ecquid ego fecerim simile?
Nec invideo! Sed vide...! Iam longius nobis talia garrientibus horam processisse credo.. Oportet enim nos ad nostra redeamus.
Pro dolor! Sed novissimum illud dicas: nullos alios vidisti sodales, qui tibi cordi fuerint?
Nec unum, plurimos autem numerandos credo: Marcum Antonium atque Ansgarium Vega, quos amicos, aliquando quoque discipulos, optimos semper viros habeo, Lauramque illam optimam, quae discipula mea cum fuerit, Salmanticae nunc temporis Philologiae Classicae curam dans versatur. Adde etiam sodales amicasque eas optimas, nomine Martha Annaque, aliosque multos, quos spero fore proxima adhibita occasione denuo me convenire colloqui arctaque consuetudine uti valeam, quod maximis est in votis!
Fiat ergo, atque dei tibi ita suaves clementesque se praebeant! Et iam in proximum tibi valedico, Ansgari!
Valeas tu quoque in proximum! Atque in posterum crustula afferas tua comedenda, amice: vacuum enim catinum esse video...!
If anyone's been missing tales of bad weather and body odour in exotic locales, a friend of mine is cycling across South America at the moment. We're running a sweepstake on how long it takes him to become a Colombian drugs baron.
Attat, en aspice! An Ansgarius illic stans aspiciatur? Sane est! Heus tu Ansgari!
Heus tu, amice! Modo enim cum discesserimus nos denuo offendimus... Curnam stationem petisti? An tu quoque peregrinaturus sis?
Minime gentium! Cognatum quendam excipiendi causa adveni, qui quidem autoraeda longa vectus Legionem visitatum me hospite ductoreque petere voluit. Et quid de te? Nesciebam plane te iter facturum ullum...
Quod libentissime faciam, deis omnibus iuvantibus, neque solus, immo a duobus amicis comitatus, quos in deliciis habeo...!
Atque quorsum gentium tuos reges pedes? Dicas nisi molestum nefasque sit...
Ain molestum? Quando nempe quove pacto iter Emeritense molestum fatigosum importunum cuiquam fore crederes? Emeritam enim petemus, idque libentissimo animo, ut patet! Nam oportet scias nos tres non solum animos delectandi, sed quoque doctrina scientiaque eos informandi causa eam ad pulcherrimam peregrinaturos urbem...
In monumentis vestigiisque eis Romanis, quae plurima servat urbs, lustrandis doctiores humanioresque fieri velitis?
Mitte monumenta, amice! Quae pulcherrima speciossimaque cum sint, non tanti enim esse momenti putemus quae ad nos his anni diebus alliciendos domoque removendos valeant...! Alio satisque diverso tendemus: ut auscultemus conspiciamusque viros illos, eosdemque humanissimos doctissimosque, suas habituros acroases, tales quales Aloisius Miraglia, Christophorus RicoEduardus Engelsing aliique nonnulli Conventui interfuturi existimantur. Adde etiam illud, quod multi sunt nobis amici revisendi resalutandique, omnibus ex orbis terrarum partibus advenientes. Sed hactenus hodie! Vide, vide ut iam ad raedam conscendendam convocemur! Abeundum ergo statim nobis est!
Nullam enim moram vobis afferre velim, amici...Valeatis ergo quam optime atque pulcherrimum agatis iter! At cave Ansgari! Tan celer incedebas ut paene vidulum hunc offenderis...!
Bene praedicas...! Agite sodales, adeamus ad crepidinem illam firmiore gradu! Valeas, amice! Regressi cum erimus, iam multa de multis ibi audita perspectaque colloqui poterimus...!
- Omnino de quo loquaris, scito, nescio. Numquid in hac, quam evolvis, ephemeride eorum ad nos pertinentium inveneris, amice?
Sane inveni, neque minimi momenti, ut credo! Nam in tanta nugarum turba (mendacia missa facio...) aliquid veri insignisque oculis occurrit meis...! Ecce Iesus Liz ille, tibi satis notus proximusque, nonne verum?
- Verissumum narras! Age, affer chartas mihi statim inspiciendas...!
Maiore agas cura! Tam cito subitoque folia e manibus manibus surripuisti ut ea fere omnino scideris...!
- Ignoscas rogo! Iam bene qualis aliquando sim nosti! Sed ubi paginarum nuntium reperiam illum?
Desine iam pagellas evolvere atque hic oculos pone!
- Ubinam gentium dicas? Euge, iam iam video! Ecce photographema istud... Sine me, amice, aliquot temporis symbolam hanc legam.
Quod libentissime faciam. Iam mihi eundum sit credo...Opperiar autem dum legeris, quia nonnulla debeo de aliis a te rogare.
- Mirandum valde! Iuxta verba, quam lego, quaestio ita vexata quae fuerit iam absoluta esse videtur, atque in partem contrariam universa fere opinione! Vestigia illa nempe apud Lanciam servata, quorum momentum Iesus Liz noster necnon plurimi alii semper defenderant servandum, tandem aliquando moderatores publici non solum servanda, immo corroboranda constabilienda amplificanda fore decrevere!
Ecquid mirandi rogas? Quid ergo aliud moderatores, quibus cura atque ministerium omnibus est, facturi credantur?
- An me rideas, amice? Desine amabo verbis ita lautissimis uti, apud nos nunc temporis neque in suggestu versaris... Sed ad rem redeamus: video gregem eum ad patrimonium servandum institutum omnino negavisse licitum fore societati ei viam autoraedariam munienti sternentique ut medium per oppidum Lanciam suam delinearet sterneretquet viam, id quod si fecisset non sine magno detrimento vestigiorum antiquorum, proh dolor, factum fuisset.
Tantine ergo momenti talia credantur vestigia servanda?
- Maioris opinione, si Iesu illo, professori cathedrario ad archaeologiam in Salmanticensi Universitate, maiorem qui dat vestigiis curam, necnon doctioribus peritisimisque hominibus aliis de re suas qui aperuerunt sententias credendum putas! Nam de Lancia quod attinet non solum ad cacumen collis, id quod multis notum iam fuit, sed ad aream totam nec parvam quae est, momentum pertinet maximum...
Quin de vestigiis quicquam dicas? Ego enim aliquando visitavi neque tanta mihi visa fuerunt...
Neque alii desunt qui operae pretium non esse ad servanda vestigia putent, quorum maximam inveneris partem si in numerum eorum nihil de cultu atque humanitate curantium ingressus esses. Scisne, aliquis his diebus fuerit qui sub nomine progressus illius (sacra per Iovem verba, variis multifariisque utilia!) sententiam societatis ad patrimonium curandum reclamavisset: sola duo triave enim saxa insulsa inutiliaque obstare quin cives Legionenses nova splendidissimaque via necessarisima cum sit ad iter Vallisoletanum agendum gauderemus...
Quod verissimum atque rectissimum dictum patet, nonne?
Sane rectum, credo, sed nullum est in oppido Lancia obstaculum nec impedimentum ad progressum et bonitatem civium Legionensium! Si de obstaculis et impedimentis huius generis quaerendum est, aliae, ut multi credunt, explorandae sunt provinciae! Vide, exempli gratia, quid apud Saldanienses aliquando factum sit: vixerat inter eos annis sexagesimis superioris saeculi vir quidam satisque notus, nomine Xavierus Cortes, homo eruditissimus humanissimusque, cui quidem fundum paternum curanti laborantique quodam evenit die ut vestigia quaedam Romana forte Fortuna invenerit.
Certe narro! Quid ergo postea factum est? Primo opere invento musivo, Xavierus noster, negans se vestigia reperta reperiendaque ad museum Matritensem, quod multi suadebant periti, conferri consentire, totam suam statim pecuniam patrimoniumque ad villam effodiendam reficiendam comparandam exornandam decrevit dicandum, tali autem pacto ut concives aequalesque eius mox nostrum amentem plane necnon furentem factum esse crederent: quid diceres enim si Xavierum illum totam eius curam tempus pecuniam ad vestigia illa Romana, saxa enim insulsa atque vetustissima momenti nullius ad progressum quod attinet quae sunt, curanda videres? Nonne quisquam amentem eum crederet? Quis enim progressui infestior aut inimicior quam Xavierus? Qui quidem de talibus nugis curans, nihil beneficii concivibus suis afferre nunquam posset!
Ansgari, iam video qua progrediaris via! Ironia tua iam mihi satis est nota. Sed Xavierus ille magnificam invenisse villam Romanam creditur, non parvum oppidulum instar Lanciae nostrae!
- Restat autem ut sciamus quanta et qualia vestigia sint nostra! In praesentia, ut patet, non parvi sunt momenti, Iesus Liz atque multorum peritorum sententia: huc ergo animum intende: agitur de oppidulo fere adhuc inexplorato, cuius maior pars nondum patet, sed illud pro comperto habendum est, quod locus vestigia eximia, quae sub divo iamdudum panduntur, monstrat possidetque, maximi momenti quae sunt ad regionem totam originemque urbis nostrae Legionis multum valentia. Sed decursu temporis fieri potest ut maiora inventa essent, cuius in numero oppidum, nec oppidulum, totum idque satis grande -Iesu Liz teste- aliaeque huius modi res numerandae sint!
Mira narrare crederis, Ansgari...
- Quae autem verisimillima atque dignissima quae credantur sunt: adde etiam illud, quod non alienum esse videtur castra quoque Romana necnon mutationem -unam cuius vestigia tota in Hispania maneant- hac in parte suum habuisse locum. Quibus omnibus rebus notis perspectisque sententiam illam a moderatoribus perlatam vestigia servandi roborandique optimam necnon utilissimam evadere credamus, si ad progressum atque Legionensium civium bonitatem providendum est!
Ohe...! Cave te ipsum, amice, qui nuper moderatores publicos exprobrans nunc temporis ipse talibus tales laudas laudibus...!
- Neque immerito, si recte iudicas! Multi enim sunt inter eos munere publico qui funguntur honore atque merito digni reputandi. At oportet quoque illud, quod moleste fero, existimes, plurimos esse moderatores ita famae gloriaeque cupidos, ut unicuique cibo sal esse volentes, nusquam gentium oculos ponant quin statim occupare regere gubernare exoptent: obscuriores enim humiliores efficaciores eos fore vellemus, e contra ubique multi vigent splendent abundant, nec sicut civium ministri immo instar stellarum cinematographei omnia faciendi aventes...id quod suffragatores nunquam fieri voluerint, ut patet. Sed de eis aliisque similibus alias iam loquendi erit occasio...
Sane credo! Ceterum, amice, quid de photographemate illo dicere possis?
Ecce Iesus Liz ille, quem professorem cathedrarium esse supra demontravimus, die illo quo me discipulisque meis ab ipso invitatis, Lanciam oppidulum una lustrantes maxima adhibita humanitate, qua multum pollet, frigidissimo vento ubique flante (cuius rigor memoria omnium adhuc teneri puto...) nobis monstravit ostendit explicavit explanavit. De quibus gratias denuo permultas nobis agendas patet.
Nec aliter ego, Ansgari! Iamdudum mihi erat eundum, iam denique abeo. Valeas enim in proximum, amice!
- Bene ergo vadas atque cura ut quam optime valeas!
[additur percontatio radiophonica a Christiano Martin de Iesu Liz vestigiisque Lanciensibus confecta]
Et nunc temporis, de quibus, Ansgari, narrandum putas? Iamdudum calamum reliquisti, scisne, neque umquam causam excusationemque protulisti ullam..! Et ecce rursus venis nescioquid de quibusdam narraturus...
- Neque immerito facio, amice! Oportet enim scias Ansgarium tuum, indoctus plane cum sit, maxima gratia humanitateque donatum fuisse, quippe cui acroasim quandam coram magistris discipulisque Ovetensibus habendi occasio fuerit, eamque totam Latine proferendam.
Tuane ergo sponte urbem petivisti illam? Tam audax esse videris, qui aulas eas egregias inconsulto intraveris..?
- Quod ne delirus quidem facerem...! Invitatus enim, scito bene, a Petro Emmanuel Suarez eram, professor apud eos linguae Latinae qui est atque homo ita humanus adfabilisque ut fieri non posset quin validum cum eo amicitiae nexum quis constituisset.
Et dicas, amice: de quibus tu locutus es? Numquid momenti alicuius ipse narraveris, id quod raro, ignoscas, agere soles?
- Tua bene mihi nota, trunce, importunitas est, qua valde polles! Quin melius taces? Ausculta paulisper quid dicam: de ratione illa Latine docendi, quam multi apud nos novam falsissime esse putant, tuus verbis non optimis Latinis protulit: de Erasmo videlicet illo deque aliis plurimis eruditissimis hominibus qui tempore litterarum renascentium floruisse existimantur, quos plerumque humanistaseo nuncupare assuevimus, quod res cottidianas suas doctrinae sapientiaeque antiquorum sive Graecorum sive Romanorum tali modo immiscuisse creduntur, ut nolentes suam profugere aetatem meliores humanioresque discipulos suos fieri voluerint informandos.
Sed quid ad nos hodie viri tales, quaeso, da...
-Iure meritoque rogare videris, mi amice, is qui oculis lustras tantam, in qua nostra iaceat aetas, cladem ruinamque esse, si de humanitate bonitateque rerum nostrarum inquirendo oculos quocumque vertere velis. Ne longus, necesse nobis iam est viam illam quam humanistae emensi fuerunt denuo persequi.
An crederet quis te nunc temporis philosophi cuiusdam partes agere...
-Vellem quidem, amice, sed frustra, ut patet, ordinem natura constitutum praetermittere evertereque temptasses...philosophorum ergo neque doctrina neque indole cum gaudeam, illud tantum proferre audeam, nos videlicet, qui linguae Latinae magistros profiteri solemus, ratione ea a nobis nunc temporis assueta relicta depositaque, aptiores commodatioresque eas ingredi debere docendi vias, quas humanistae antedicti muniverunt aperuerunt percurrerunt lustraverunt idque perbelle...
Insanire plane videris, amice! Tune contra methodum nostram ita traditam atque probatam, quae ad plurimos post hominum memoriam in linguae Latinae studium alliciendos tantum valuerit audacissimus loqueris...?
-Neque eam quidem esse traditam credamus, quae non plus quam centum et quinquaginta apud nos annos iam viget ratio. Traditam melius nominandam eam putamus rationem ab humanistis iam adhibitam, a Ratione illa Iesuitarum postea confirmatam, a recentioribus studiosis multis de causis haud semper iustis denique depositam desciscitamque, magno cum detrimento scholarum, nostra multorumque aliorum sententia.
Si credendum tibi est, paulum enim vel nihil abest ut dicas eodem modo ac illi humanistae fecerint nos aetate nostra facere debere...quod mirum, quia iam plurimis transactis annis nemo qui credat eorum rationem optimam esse nobis inveniendus est...
- Id quod sescenties, opinor, iam dixerim faciendum! Video hodie tuam non tam perlucidam exstare mentem...
Manum de contumeliis! Ne me rideas, non tam stultus reputandus sum,..Et dicas mihi, quo discrimine praecipuo, si notandum licet, illas distinguendas rationes duabus crederemus? Quid novi vel optimi praedicas, novator qui videris magnus?
Sed re vera illi novatores putandi, Wolfium dico necnon Willielmum a Humbolt, neque humanistae...! Qui quidem Germani duo, dum rationes eas positivas scientificasque (verbis venia sit) inducere voluerunt, quibus Formale Bildungeam, quam Germani vocant, condiderint, magnae doctrinarum eruditioni excultae rigorem siccitatemque linguae Latinae tali modo immiscuerint ut ea nihil aliud videretur lingua nisi cadaver ad sola aenigmata proponenda discipulisque persolvenda aptius. Hinc ergo solae eae nudae compagis grammaticae rationes tractandae, hinc illae diversissimae absonaeque plerumque sententiolae convertendae, quarum scopus sive finis propositus, omne usu exercitamentoque linguae vivo vitalique deposito et sublato, non alio tendere viderentur nisi ut discipuli non iam humaniores sapientioresque homines, sed tantum parvi philologi idemque aliquantulum doctiores ex scholis evaderent.
Nonne talia faciendo humanistae illi, quorum mentionem facis creberrimam, magistris suas agitaturis scholas proposuerint?
Minime gentium! immo -ut facile cernere possis, modo oculis opera ab eis conscripta lustres- alia agenda satisque diversa proposuerunt: colloquia nempe de rebus cottidianis discipulis instituenda, compositiones de quibusdam totas Latine exaratas, fabulas quoque scaenicas agendas, quaedam alia multa quaecumque ad usum vivum rationibus grammaticis immiscendum aptiora videantur.
At, amice, miror valde! Unde enim tam peritus huius rei ingrederis?
Talis quoque ipse esses, si consuetudinem haberes cum Aloisio illo Miraglia quamdam: qui quidem Latine disertissimus homo cum sit, quid maioris momenti utrum argumentum an verba eius clarissima prolata adihibitaque sit incertum adhuc reperiendumque est!
Et quid de talibus ei, qui tibi auscultarunt, opinari credantur?
Scisne, nihil ignotius homine, amice! At, si eorum speciei credere debeamus, multi audientium mea probare consilia videbantur. Fortunatum enim me habeo, cui coram talibus professoribus discipulisque copia loquendi mihi data sit! Atque gratulandum apprime Petrum Emmanuel illum duco, cuius benignitas humanitasque ad me miserrimum invitandum apud Ovetenses acroasimque habendum eum moverint!
An formam cuius hac in imagine videamus?
Ita vero, ecce nos duo e thermopolio exeuntes quodam. Spero enim fore ut aliae sint occasiones proximae quibus convenire denuo possimus: multa de multis narranda commentandaque esse bene credimus...!
Id quod in votis est! Valeas ergo, Ansgari!
Valeas quoque tu quam optime, mi amice, in proximum!
Recentemente fomos honrados com o convite da revista Computer Arts Portugal para exibir um pequeno portfólio de ilustração e simultaneamente criar uma tira de BD dedicada ao tema dessa edição "Re-Anima O Teu Design", a ideia surgiu-nos rápida e naturalmente e o processo literalmente como é contado, em jeito auto-biográfico.
Recently we were honored with the invitation to Computer Arts Portugal magazine, the issue was dedicated to Re-Energize Your Design, the idea came quite naturally, in an autobiographical kind-of-way...
