Archive for 2003

• 30.12.03 Feliz Natal!

  Pelo visto esta todo mundo festejando… desapareceram…

  Aqui estou curtindo a visita de meu pai e minha irma.
  Passamos os 4 dias natalicios na montanha… neve e snowboard!!! u-hu!
  Ontem e hoje trabalhando… argh!
  Amanha iremos para Venezia para receber o ano novo. ;)

  Felicidades e tudo de bom a todos…

• 30.12.03 Merry Christmas!!!

  4 day in the mountain… snowboarding…
  … certainly a cool Christmas!

• 16.12.03 AH

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• 14.12.03 Private Parts

  Private Parts, 1997 - A very funny and entertaining autobiography movie of Howard Stern, a famous radio DJ in NY.

• 12.12.03 Al
  
• 10.12.03 novos autores
  
• 10.12.03 Inverno

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• 05.12.03 A Juju casou!!!!!

  

  Felicidades Jutila……….

• 01.12.03 chaos in milano streets

  A complete chaos in Milano!!! A whole (rainy) day of strike in the public transportation network!
  If Italian traffic is known by its drivers craziness I can’t tell what it was like today.
  There was no space in the streets where I could ride my bike. Cars where almost touching each other, barely flowing like a river of mud.

  

• 15.11.03 caf

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• 14.11.03 how they got here

  It is very funny to find out how people got on your site.
  I’m always checking the key words people use in their searches when they find my site.

  This week I got really funny examples, for both mitla.com and mitla-portugu�s.
  I decided it deserved a post.

  isla margarita fruits and vegetables
  bikini jazz singer
  sexy geisha in Brazil
  como cortar filet mignon
  arepa shops in NY
  krispy kream bikini girl
  juan griego shopping

• 09.11.03 The Meatrix

  Take a time to find out what is…

  

• 07.11.03 Tanti Auguri Babel!

  feliz anivers

• 05.11.03 r.i.p. minimalism

  I don’t know if minimalism is dead, but I think it is surely dying…

• 05.11.03 Futebol

  Agora sim… consegui organizar um grupo de 10 meninas para jogar futebol (society - aqui s

• 01.11.03 John Lemon

  Esselunga is probably the biggest supermarket chain in Italy, and surely the funniest.
  It’s Advertising Campaign, created by Armando Testa, wanted to emphasize that Esselunga’s products were “famous for its quality”.
  Fruits and vegetables sold there are so special that each one is a famous personality.
  John Lemon is a good example of one of them!

• 01.11.03 and back to broadband!

  finally we can say again: we’re connected!

• 01.11.03 brasileir

  Fazia tempo que eu n

• 01.11.03 supermercado online

  Depois de mais de 2 meses sem ADSL, finalmente a nossa conex

• 10.10.03 de volta a Milano…

  Voltei das minhas f

• 10.10.03 back from vacation!!!

  Hello everybody…
  I’m finally back from my vacation!!! (not back to broadband yet… but anyway…)
  Lorenzo and I spent 3 wonderful weeks with his family! Here are the highlights of our trip:
  One week in Miami: “resort lifestyle”, sun, 3 minutes rain, green all over, 32�C outside, 15�C inside, getting a cold…, sea, swimming pool, highways, always going by car, Hummers, Krispy Kream donuts, Isabel news on CNN, pampiro, Middla, driving an automatic car for the first time, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” TV show, Don Pan, Abercrombie and Fitch, GAP, malls, Romero Britto, IHOP, Modjito, hablando espa�ol por toda parte, taking more than an hour to complete check-in and pass through airport security after almost undressing myself…
  10 days in Caracas: sun, 3 minutes rain, green all over, 30�C outside, 22�C inside, suffering the cold I got in Miami, �2,00 to put gas in the car, wedding party part-1, parrilla, family reunions, dinners, carne mechada, arepa, unfortunately no chicha this time, Nobu - a nice japanese restaurant, Consolato Generale d’Italia a Caracas, fresh fruit juices, nice and smiling people, crazy traffic going up and down.
  3 day weekend in Isla Margarita: sun and green, no rain this time, 32�C outside, 32�C inside, one day sick inside hotel’s room, wonderful beach, white sand, eating fish food, 60 SPF cream, wedding party part-2, whole day in bikini and pareo, using sandals, Papa, Juan Griego Juan Griego, Tututanga logo (see Lorbus post), meeting Lorenzo’s old friends.
  Statistics: We left Milano with only 2 carry-on’s 9kg each, and came back with the same carry-on’s, plus one duffel bag of 13kg, and Lorenzo’s guitar. In total we passed through 7 take-off’s and landings. In 20 days we spent 25 hours flying and other 14 hours wanting in airports. 2 days we spent sick on bed, I spent 12 days with cough, for 3 days I got sore throat and couldn’t speak at all and 9 days I had a sexy low voice.

  As you can see… we had such a great time!!!

• 09.09.03 Here comes the autumn…

  Rainy days… grey colours… less sunshine…
  …taking out sweaters from the closet…

• 06.09.03 shopping!

  

• 03.09.03 Fora do ar

  Queridos amigos, pe

• 27.08.03 Dial-up

  We are having a “broadband blackout” by our ISP mistake!
  They say it will take like a MONTH to restore it!!!
  Yes… we’re in Italy…

  By the way… now that we are connecting by dial-up I’m thinking how was possible to navigate in internet with 56kps…

• 26.08.03 The geisha world

  
  I have just finished to read Geisha, a Life, by Mineko Iwazaki, which turned out to be a delightful night reading.

  Mineko was one of the most successful geisha (geiko as it is called in Kyoto) of her generation. In this auto-biography she presents the fascinating Japanese geisha world, and makes clear the real function of geisha: artist women instead of mistress.

• 21.08.03 Saudade do samba!

  Hoje fui para o trabalho de carro, aproveitando que esses dias est

• 20.08.03 Pizza Cora

  E para encerrar o tema pizzas… aqui vai a pizza cora

• 20.08.03 Pizza Vaquinha 2

  Eis aqui uma posterior reapari

• 19.08.03 Tom Jobim

  Clube do Tom is an official meeting point for fans.

  You can find the discography, lyrics, curiosities, and even original recordings to listen.

  I found Jobim’s original handwriting for the song “Aguas de Marco” interesting and graphically beautiful. Published in 1972 in occasion of its first recording, in the “Pasquim” newspaper, Rio de Janeiro.

• 17.08.03 Final Destination 2

  Final Destination 2, 2003, by David R. Ellis
  An effective thriller… with creative and good-quality death scenes… ;)
  A girl has a premonition of a highway accident and prevents a group of people from dying. But Death had already made up its mind…

• 16.08.03 The Italian Job

  The Italian Job, 2003, by Gary Gray. With Mark Walberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton.
  Action movie, the perfect entertainment, as its meaning: “something diverting or engaging” (Merrian-Websters Online).
  Thieves, gold, speed, traitor, explosions, car chases, with a nice screen play and famous actors.

• 11.08.03 The Big One

  The Big One, 1998, by Michael Moore.
  It is the third of Moore’s films that we see. We started with the blockbusting Bowling for Columbine (2002), that was a punch in the face. A portrait of contemporary american behavior and (for me) an introduction for their politics.
  We liked Moore and his serious-critique-with-irony-and-fun style so much that we ended up seeing Roger&Me (1989) a couple of months later. Also a really good movie.
  Finally yesterday we saw The Big One. As we could expect, he is simply genius the way he presents his cause, and you feel completely involved. The dirty things you always knew that surrounded us gets more clear.

• 11.08.03 Italian vacation

  Milano in August is completely deserted. Everybody is out of town, everything is closed including shops, bakeries, and bars. Almost every company closes its doors and doesn’t even answer its phones. All workers take their annual vacation at the same time!

  It is incredible how in the year 2003, Italy - a G7 member - can sustain a 20 day “general-strike” once a year!

• 06.08.03 Pizza da vaquinha

  Como fazer pizza de vaquinha em 23 passos.
  Inicia-se com a massa, depois os condimentos, o pizzaiolo (esse

• 04.08.03 Fondue para convidado online!

  Semana passada teve um fondue na minha casa…. em S

• 04.08.03 Jazz Night

  Yesterday we went to see Kurt Elling at Blue Note Milano!

  He is a nice jazz singer from Chicago.
  And Blue Note Milano is one of NY’s original franchising!

• 03.08.03 Moebius

  Moebius, 1996, by Prof. Gustavo Masquera R.
  Interesting movie by the students of Universidad del Cine, Argentina.
  Buenos Aires metro has missing train inside its net. A mathematician will help findind out were is it.

• 03.08.03 Site upgrade.

  I’ve been away because I was changing blog system from Blogger to Movable Type.
  The never-ending improvements…

• 03.08.03 F

  *por deserto leia-se: vazio+quente

  Ponto 1: vazio.
  Agosto

• 31.07.03 Auf wiedersehen, Heike!

  Today there was a nice farewell aperitivo for a dear german friend of mine. Bye bye, Heike! See you in Berlin…… or back here in Milano! ;)

• 29.07.03 Naked Lunch

  1991, by David Cronenberg.
  A surrealistic movie: I would suggest not to try to go in depth with the meanings… it is hard to understand what the hell is going on!
  But it is really fun if you simply enjoy the crazy events that happens with the main character.
  Here is a nice review I agree with.

• 27.07.03 Almo

  Um espet

• 27.07.03 P.S. a Almo

  Para os fans: o Arroz da Mitla entrou em cena outra vez, depois de um longo per

• 27.07.03 Crash

  Crash, 1996, by David Croonenberg.
  I even had a discussion with Lorenzo yesterday after seen the movie, because he supported that it was a good one and I disagreed. I didn’t (and don’t) like the main theme - Crash fetish - and thought the the movie exposed too much something that I’m not interested in knowing in depth.
  But… after a good night of sleep and a fresh mind, a must agree with him: it is a good movie. Cronenberg was simply fantastic not only on the shootings and aesthetics, but on keeping you hypnotized seing something you don’t or shouldn’t want to see - like a car crash.

• 26.07.03 Cidade de Deus

  Cidade de Deus(City of God) 2002, by Fernando Meirelles.
  A portrait of brazilian favela’s life, hierarchy and culture.
  What to say… excellent. The movie is realistic and the actors performances are great.
  Maybe it exceeded a bit with shooting effects. I think there was no need for that because the screenplay is already fantastic by itself.

• 26.07.03 movies

  Since I like very much the movies, I thought it deserved a category in my blog.
  With no pretentious purpose at all, I just want to share my personal opinion about this wonderful and magic art.

• 21.07.03 F1 “alla grande” para os brasileiros

  Rubinho Barrichello virou her

• 21.07.03 Day of Glory for brazilian F1

  Yesterday Rubinho Barichello was simply extraordinary at Silverstone!!! Compliments!!!
  Impossible not to remember our glory days with Ayrton Senna.

• 20.07.03 P

  Hoje Lorenzo e eu jantamos os

• 19.07.03 Adivinhem qual

  Adivinhem qual

• 18.07.03 3 times champions!

  Well, well!!! I proudly announce that we - Lissoni Associati - are the new champions of 2003’s inter-studio female soccer championship!
  After beating Thun (2-0), The Stars (4-1) and Sottsass+Cibic (7-1), we won Citterio (2-0) and Design Continuum (11-0).

  The final mach was yesterday against Citterio: the game ended 2-2, but our victory came by the penaltys 3-1. Below a potpourri of images (more photos).

  

• 15.07.03 portuguese blog

  I’m starting a portuguese blog in my website! For my family, friends & for my spontaneity!

• 15.07.03 Blog em portugu

  Decidi dedicar uma p

• 14.07.03 improved desktop by lorbus

  Check out the idea of an Improved Desktop that lorbus posted today!
  Pondering his post and my subsequent comment, it reminded me a lecture by the architect Marcus Novak that I saw in 1999 at Sao Paulo. He was presenting his concept of transArchitecture -”architecture beyond architecture, is an architecture of heretofore invisible scaffolds. It has a twofold character: within cyberspace is exists as liquid architecture that is transmitted across the global information networks; within physical space it exists as an invisible electronic double superimposed on our material world.”

  This is one of my favorites subjects! I’m open to discuss it…

• 12.07.03 Net disease reliever…

  For Google addicts who are also blog maniacs there is a new beta version of the Google Toolbar! Among it’s new features there’s a ‘popup blocker’ and ‘blog this’ button: you can instantly post to your blog indicating the page your visiting.

  

• 07.07.03 Amsterdam

  Last weekend we went to Amsterdam! First time there… beautiful place, cute houses, bright colours, lots of nature, fresh air, nice (and big) people!

• 01.07.03 Online MAP

  Maporama lets you search online for addresses and/or itineraries from lots of cities!
  I looked for my adresses in Milano and Sao Paulo, and it worked just fine!
  Then, pushing it, I searched for an itinerary between both… well… I exaggerated! “impossible to determine”.

• 29.06.03 soccer - part II

  Just for the record: last thursday we won the soccer game against Cibic+Sottsass, 7-1!!!

• 22.06.03 Gardaland

  Today we spent a nice sunday at the Gardaland, an amusement park by the Garda Lake. Lots of fun…

• 20.06.03 soccer - part I

  Each year in june there is a soccer championship between architecture-design-graphic studios from Milano. For the last 2 years the female championship has also been taking place. We the Lissoni Associati’s team are the champions for both years! It is true that where only three teams - Lissoni’s, Antonio Citterio’s and Matteo Thun’s, but we won anyway! :)

  2003 championship it is going to be much more interesting, because there are 6 female teams: Lissoni; Citerio; Thun; Cibic&Partners+Sottsas Associati; Design Continuum; Stars.
  Yesterday we just won our first match against the Stars (4-1). To be precise our first match was supposed to be last week against Thun, but we won by forfait (2-0).
  Our next match: thursday Lissoni vs. Cibic+Sottsass. I’ll keep you update!

• 13.06.03 APOD

  

  Did you ever see this image? Well, it was from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, at 27 november 2000.
  It is a nice page to pass by often as “each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.”

• 01.06.03 motorino!

  We just got a new 4 stroke 100cc scooter (photos will be available soon…) and I wanted to know how its engine works. Lorenzo started explaining to me, and at the end we just got this nice interactive explanation from internet.
  If you want to learn how everything works simply go to the site How Stuff Works. Cars, computers, electronics, science, even people behavior! Just fascinating!

• 23.05.03 mitla penha morato

  born
  20/01/1976 in Sao Paulo - Brazil

  studies
  1981 Pre-school and Kindergarden Escola Cuca
  1989 Grade School Colegio Palmares
  1992 High School Colegio Santa Cruz
  1999 University Architecture at FAU-USP Universidade de Sao Paulo
  2000 MA in Design Domus Academy - Milano, Italy

  loves
  Lorenzo Bustillos aka lorbus - in sep. 2002 I happily became Mrs. Bustillos!
  Fiona Bustillos aka fiona - in May 2005 I happily became mom!

  lives
  Milano, Italy - since jan 2000

  works
  Since feb 2001 I’ve been working at Lissoni Associati studio, from the architect-designer Piero Lissoni.

  sports
  I simply love to play soccer !
  I’m starting snowboard and squash!
  Well… I used to ride my bike to work everyday. After is was stolen for the third time, I decided to go by bus.

• 23.05.03 tanti auguri

  marcelinho…. desculpa… eu me esqueci do seu aniversario!!! :(
  parabens atrasado!!!!

• 19.05.03 mitla?

  for those who might ask… YES, Mitla is my name!

  It came from the Aztec ruins of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  The place was a ceremonial center initially dominated by the Zapotecs followed by the Mixtecs.

  Before going to USA in 1971 to do their master and doctorate studies, my parents spent a week in Mexico and visited Mitla. Even without knowing its meaning they decided that if they would have a daughter her name would be Mitla, because they simply loved both the place and the name.

  I first knew the meaning as “morning star”, when my high school history teacher told me. How lovely!
  Some years later I went on vacation to Mexico with my family. Of course Mitla was on our route… Then, visiting the place, for me and my parents surprise we discovered that the real meaning was “Place of the Dead”. wow…

  I’d rather be with the first meaning. But I can say that the second one could be useful to keep away unwanted conversation:
  “Mitla? What a beautiful name. What does that mean?”
  …

  More curiosities about my name?
  Well… as far as I know I have never met another Mitla before. (If you know some, please tell her to contact me right away!)

  There is a Mitla Pass at the Sinai Peninsula, near Suez Canal, that was strategically important to the Sinai Campaign during the Suez War 1956 between Israel and Egypt.

  I recently discovered that there is a far west Cartoon called Tex, created by the italian Giovanni Luigi Bonelli , in which the main character Tex Willer has an female enemy called… Mitla. She is a charming, fascinating, mysterious and dangerous… WITCH!

  pros
  -how many people besides the internet pioneers can have the domain myfirstname.com?

  cons
  -having to do the spelling not only by phone, but also face-to-face

• 17.05.03 Wedding photos by Cynthia

  Oppening my mailbox today I got a nice surprise. Cynthia, a long time family friend, has just published in her website my wedding photos. She was a special guest that flew all the way from Washington to S�o Paulo just to take part in the event in sep 2002. Besides the wedding ceremony, family and friends, there are nice photos she took of my home. Lots of ’saudade’ (nostalgia) seeing them…
  Following my TOP 2: “table set for lunch” and “Bianca on bed”

  

• 10.05.03 Lunch Break…

  …my friend and colleague Lorenza and I, during our visit to the construction site of our ongoing project at Venezia…

  

• 03.05.03 O Pato

  When I was little my dad and I played bossanova together. He used to play the guitar so I could sing with my child like voice, which matches perfectly with the style.
  Last month he came to visit us and we spent 10 nice days together. We reminisced old times…
  Here is a version of the song “O Pato” (immortalized by João Gilberto in 1959) that he played, I sang and Lorenzo mixed and recorded in his computer.
  Pure homemade quality!!! Enjoy.

• 01.05.03 Billie on Holidays

  If there is something I really enjoy about a holiday is how you can start your day in slow motion and simply listen to nice music while preparing breakfast, navigating on the internet or doing laundry. Billie, as her last name may suggest, is perfect for these occasions.
  (vc nao acha, mami?)

• 27.04.03 Wisdom

  The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. (Richard Cecil)
  I totally agree.

• 21.04.03 Movies on holidays

  well… happy easter everybody…
  I spent these holidays watching movies at home. I suggest: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Carlito’s Way (1993), and the best of all… Los Lunes al Sol (2002), a Spanish movie from director Fernando Leon de Aranoa!

• 16.04.03 Aperitivo break

  Wednesday evening in Milano… there’s nothing like a nice “aperitivo” after work. It is the charge needed for the ending week! A nice red wine is enough to relax, and take a breath in the middle of the week without compromising it!

• 15.04.03 Lack of inspiration

  Shame on me… No writing at all since last year…
  It must change!

• 01.03.03 Foto calcetto

  Ecco qua le foto del nostro calcetto! Divertitevi!!!