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milhões de nervos

NERVOS #8
Nervos was once (between June and December 2011) a monthly webzine dedicated to portuguese music, with special emphasis on the country's underground musical scene. With an unpretensious and bold graphic signature, and relying only on analogic photography to capture the bands they discussed, they put together a free and beautiful insight on the pulse of portuguese music. In 2012 they converted their format but maintained their concept, leaving the webzines on halt, and creating a website and a Facebook page, where they interview and feature national musicians and bands for two weeks each, while building up an impressive archive.

Milhões de Festa was exploding at the time the first Nervos came out. Starting out as a small party between friends, Lovers and Lollipops, the label responsible for the festival, put together in 2010 the first big event in Barcelos, north of Oporto, with national and foreign bands that the major festivals wouldn't take or invite. And in 2011 the event exploded, atracting hundreds of people to their sunny, pool-side, smile-inducing and mind-erasing gigs. It came to be known as the hipster festival, or the place everyone went for musical and personal discovery, for inviting great bands that little people knew about. It has since grown in its programming, size and reputation, as a place of cult and chill, with a few thousands music lovers in attendance.

Of course the two entities would soon be related. Nervos dedicated their #3 edition, back in August 2011, to the festival. Interviewing the portuguese bands that played there, reviewing their concerts and their albums, and their own overall experience at the event. The special edition was the biggest to date, with lots to say and lots of beautiful, analogic photos taken in Barcelos.

I have always admired the people from Nervos, for their ability to envelop themselves in such an exciting spectre of culture, and putting themselves out there without any fears or regrets. I was drawn to their graphic structure as well, but mostly, their "no bullshit" attitude. As such, I was delighted when I met them, proud when I was able to call them my friends, and thrilled when I was asked to help out with the project.

This is a brief return to when webzines were cool. This is our experience at Milhões de Festa, the festival we look forward to since the time the last one ended. The sun, the dust, the smiles, the music, the love. We hope you like it.

CVTHVUS #2

CVTHVUS #2
Featuring special guest Gonçalo Duarte 

Cats are worshiped since the beginning of time. It is their destiny to rule the world in the future. You WILL obey. You WILL cater to their every need.
But the present is tainted, and to make sure they rule, they will come from the future to fix it. For good or bad, beware.
 
RELEASE PARTY
with musical guests AbztraQt Sir Q and Nѳva
at O das Joanas, Largo do Intendente, Lisbon
Saturday 29th June | 18:30
In collaboration with SOU - Movimento e Arte
FREE ENTRY

Zines available through cvthvus@outlook.com
Price: 3€

CVTHVUS #1 Release Party

featuring special guest Tiago Martins
with SAUR | and unveiling Surveillance
in Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon, at Bacalhoeiro
Thursday 13 September | 22:00
FREE ENTRY

Zines available through chazzythecat@hotmail.com
Price: 4€ (+ shipping costs)

CATHAUS

CATHAUS #00 Release/Exhibition Party

in Chiado, Lisbon, at the Art in Chiado Bar
Saturday 12 May | 19:00
with the special guest Sofia Pereira
and Mental Burton as a musical guest, performing at 21:00

Zines available through chazzythecat@hotmail.com
Price: 4€ (+ shipping costs)

RSVP HERE! BE THERE OR BE ☐

nervous?

 

For Nervos.

contra a racionalidade

ma.ni.fest.to-me

PT
Proletários mortos à fome por todo o lado, burgueses anafados com unhas castanhas de davidoff, clérigos presos aos dogmas da santíssima trindade, nobreza falida que prega poesia nos salões a tresandarem a mofo, ouvi-me. Por favor ouvi este afrontamento, ouvi estas palavras, se não por mais, apenas por serem um gesto de amor ao mundo.

ENG
Starving workers everywhere, overweight bourgeois with your brown Davidoff nails, clerics tied to the dogmas of the Trinity, nobles who preach poetry in halls reeking of mildew, hear my words. Please hear this confrontation, hear these words, if not more, just because they are a gesture of love to the world.

João Gomes de Almeida

The CORE is a fictional and hypotetical organisation, designed as a school project for the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, concerning the position of design in the global conjuncture, and its precious role in engaging communities (specifically, to be aware of their and other's rights, and the growing need to defend and fight for them).

The project consisted in designing an organisation and a system, defining its goals and methods, setting up platforms to get their message across, and ultimately to make it all real and believable enough, so it could eventually even be picked up and used.

The next steps would include a further development on some of the platforms (namely the blog and booklet) and strategies, defining a corporate identity for the organisation, designing a full-on campaign, and of course, revision, revision, revision.

The CORE is inspired by the human rights movement, and the rising need to defend and fight for them. The revolutions in North Africa were a wake-up call to very serious and global infringements on the Human Rights Declaration. But the people are rising to the challenge. They are taking it into their own matters, and fighting back.

Thus the setting of a supporting organisation is very needed, even urgent. The CORE is the response to this need, acting on a twin-effect basis: encouragement and support. To achieve this, it relies on its own support, from a mother organisation and two external partnerships.

When reaction burns through the veins of a community, it is our place to provide the fuel to let it burn. Ok, maybe not the best analogy. This organisation functions on a support basis to communities that are willing to fight against oppressors or sources of oppression, helping organise rallies and encouraging a pro-active and peaceful protest and pression, and providing them with health and food supplies. In the same manner, we are also concerned with inocent bystanders or the possibly injured. So we provide them with the protection they require, and offer them re-accomodation and exit strategies.

This is an internal, pro-active function. An external action would also be a part of The CORE. Setting up a website, with a supportive Facebook discussion/promotion page and a news feed blog, meets the objective of both "promoting" what is happening arount the world, and a localised view of both the actions taken by the organisation and the impact in the community. Also, the organisation would also focus on encouraging diplomatic discussion among those involved, and the powers concerned.

This system would be, of course, very well supported by the three institutions involved in the project. And the organisation would be the core of their efforts joined together.

The CORE would be born as a branched unit of Amnisty International, a global non-profit organisation focused on protecting, defending and reinforcing human rights worldwide. So it is only fitting that an impact-based organisation such as ours, would form from, and be supported by, a global institution. AI would be able to provide a donations and volunteer basis, as well as a center for the human rights theme.

From then on, a partnership would be made with both the Red Cross and the United Nations. The Red Cross concentrates the powers needed to act inside a community (region, country) and provide the supplies to help them, including a free moving strategy. As for the United Nations, they are the major authority in maintaining peace, and would provide the best diplomatic platform for inducing conversations among people and powers, and for promoting the organization's situation.

The booklet presents an historical context to the theme, and the reasons of the existence of such an organisation, at the same time. ETHICS was a web publication I did some time ago about Graphic Design and the Ethical repercussions of the profession. I found most fitting that a human rights publication would adopt the same format. In this hypotetical thesis, ETHICS would also be a real publication, and the presentation of The CORE would be a special issue dedicated to it. You will find a more expansive view of the organisation's approach there.

 it’s about revolution, and always has been:
the great cycles within and without.

Jessica Forman

In a nutshell, it's about revolution. This is a project about human rights.

Please remember that this project is hypotetical. Every reference to real organisations is purely speculative.

Cantamos Pessoas Vivas

"We Sing (=Preach) Live People"

Music by Quarteto 1111, a 70's portuguese band.
Their lyrics tried to reach people to rebel against political and social suffocation and power abuse.

Vilar de Mouros, often considered the portuguese Woodstock (inspite of its much smaller size) was, as the 
North American festival, a trigger to get people to experience themselves through music, peaceful manifestations
and even drugs and sex, and to get to know, and fight for, real freedom; in more than one way, it was a way for 
people to escape the tough reality, and a major factor to fighting for their rights, and eventually to the events that 
followed - such as the Carnation Revolution in Portugal (1974).

Exhibition Journal

                                                                 Exhibition

snapshot

                       

Exhibiton: an informational and nostalgic recreation of both festivals' spirit, through old articles, festival posters, photos, police reports, LP vinyls of bands that played in both festivals, and even dirt and weeds, recreating the physical space, all in a small corner of our university.

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Group effort with João David Gonçalves and Tiago Martins.

And congrats to JD for graduating. Cheers to one of the best groups ever.

Good luck JD.

Aula Magna

Graphic proposal on the portuguese college life-dedicated magazine, Aula Magna.
Group effort with Tiago Martins and João David Gonçalves.

ETHICS

University work
Second Edition (improved) 

Ethics is about your ethos, your character and your choises.
So it all comes down to you. Your education, your critical view about what surrounds you, and about yourself.