Support Breasts!

Today, the 19th October is the international breast cancer day. People all around the world are supporting the fight against this terrible sickness, and so am I. Unfortunately i know some people that suffered from this disease, some survived some didn't, my thoughts go to all of them. If you can please help against the fight against breast cancer, well not just breast cancer, the fight against cancer is really important. There were an estimated 12.7 million cancer cases worldwide in 2008, the number is expected to rise to 21 million by 2030, we can not let this happen, so go and find out how you can help, and do it!! 


"Support breasts, because in a way or

another we all love them."

Behind the masks!!

Why do people hide behind masks? Why do StreetArtists hide behind masks??
 When i was a kid, there where two kind of people that used to hide behind masks, criminals and superheroes. Well street artists ain't no superhero, but are they criminals??
I keep seeing graffiti everywhere saying that "Graffiti is Art, not Crime" well i could not agree more, but then let me tell you something, artists dont hide behind masks, hoodies and scarfs. No one loves street art more than i do, but i don't see the point on hiding, i dont see the point on hiding behind a tag or a mask. And now all of you graffiti lovers will point the finger and say, "that is what graffiti is about, it has always been like that. They think we are criminals and therefore we need to hide." You know what? You might just be right, but i also see it like this: "You hide and so they think you are criminals." Vendettas masks will never change the world, that is just a bunch of kids playing revolution, the real revolutionaries are the ones that show their faces and stand by what they believe, no shame, no fear... 

I you do it cause you think you look cool, then let me break it to you, there is only one and only one that can wear a mask and look cool at the same time, his name is Vader.

Sketching a Piranha!!

Back in time, when i was a teenager, my town was divided in "gangs". Not the bad kind of gangs, you know, not like criminal and so, but more like the group of people that you hanged out with.
 There were "The Storm", they were the older ones, then came "The Piranha", the "Pretty Faces" and the younger ones the "Miluvit",  Miluvit is a kind of baby food sold in portugal at the time :D


 Me by age should be a part of the Pretty Faces, also because i had a rock band with members from the gang, but i really did not like the idea of the "Gang" thing. So i called myself independent and partyed with all of them, i had really good friends in all of the "gangs" so i did not see the point on being enemies.
But in all of this gangs there was one that i was really found of, "The Piranhas".


The Piranhas were a group of 7 maybe 8 guys, no girls admitted, (or so they said, i think that it was because no girl wanted to be a part of it :), they were also the ones who gave the name to the "Pretty Faces", cause they had all the girls ) but back to the Piranhas, they were hardcore kids, and had a lot of fun together. Maybe cause there were no girls in the group, i think somehow they were more friends of each other than the rest of the guys in the other gangs, there were no love drama, cheating or love fights.   I remember specially one new year's eve, i came to visit them at their party, i actually was partying with the Pretty Faces that night but just before midnight i went to spend it with the Piranhas that invited me every year over. When i arrived, i was like amazed, i just came from a party filled with girls, with a lot of colorful decoration, a lot of fancy things and dance music, and now i was in a really dark place, the only decoration was some black garbage bags hanging instead of doors, almost no light in the room and they only had 2 cds. One with trash metal, grunge and so on, and the other one with classic music, oh come on, you have to love this guys. It was the best party ever, we ate and drank like vikings, just the way we were, we jumped around like crazy people, there was no girl to impress, no music you had to listen to even if you did not liked it... we were a bunch of friends having a lot of fun! 


Later on when we got older, all the gangs kind of mixed into one, you know, boyfriends here, girlfriends there... and that was the best thing that could had happen of course, today we are like a big family, Piranhas that married Pretty Faces, Pretty faces that married Miluvit and so on :D But still i miss the Piranha partys, the friendship, the Pretty faces, everyone. 
Thank you guys for the beautiful memories, thank you for the best teenage anyone could ever had.