A Portuguese Love

video In 6 hours the Winner of Biggest Baddest Bucket Lis t will be announced. This is an amazing competition launched by My Destination . Not only the winner gets to choose where to go (making the bucket list truly personal) but also gets to tick everything off at once during an incredible 6-month round world journey. There are 10 finalists . I invite you to watch the videos they made. I am showing just two of the selected videos. One was made by a Portuguese and the other by a Brazilian girl and it's about the city of Lisbon. Barbara Oliveira is a Brazilian girl that lives in Lisbon. Here's her entry to the Biggest Baddast Bucket List . She made a great video . And this is João Cajuda's entry . He's a Portuguese actor and studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. His video is about India and it's pretty good. Shekhar Kapur great director of Elizabeth movie  has tweeted this video and praised it. He says he filmed with a Canon 7D!

Garrett McNamara, the legendary surfer who holds the world record for the tallest wave ever surfed, describes what it's like to ride such a huge wall of water. He takes  Anderson Cooper into the waters off Portugal  where he rode that 78-foot wave -- and may have recently caught one even larger -- to experience the power and the danger in waves many believe are the biggest on the planet.

With the aim to discover promising writers, PRADA has called a Contest aimed at the accomplishment of short stories of a minimum of 10 (ten) pages and a maximum of 20 (twenty) pages on A4 sized sheets, each page to contain approximately 400 words, written in Bodoni –DTC dim. 11 style (hereinafter the “Short Story” or “Short Stories”), focusing on the inquire of the reality and its perception, especially: Views of the world. Images, marks, ideas (hereinafter the “Contest”). The Short Story may be proposed in any language chosen by the Contender without any restriction.

Emmy Curl was born in 1990 in the northeast of Portugal. This girl grew up with a lot of interests in arts like music, painting, play, and photography. She began to produce by herself all her songs in her father's studio when she was only fifteen. To celebrate the first day of May I picked her version of Maio Maduro Maio. This song it's a cover. She made a great cover in my opinion. The author of this song is the great Zeca Afonso. It belongs to the Cantigas Do Maio which is the fifth album by this Portuguese protest singer. This is, maybe, his best album. Some of his most famous songs are in it, one of them becoming a revolutionary anthem - it's Grândola Vila Morena, the song picked to be the code used by the Armed Forces Movement to start what would become the Carnation Revolution. Zeca was an influential folk and political musician and he used his music and poetry as a tool of resistance against Oliveira Salazar's dictatorial regime. He was persecuted by the Fasc...

Hello friends and Zazzlers! A couple of weeks ago a young student contacted me and showed his project, a website he created to promote Portuguese music. Be an ambassador of your musical heritage by promoting your homeland music, Jean-Philippe wrote in his site. His full name is Jean-Philippe Costa and he lives in Washington. His parents are Portuguese but he was born in France. Nevertheless, he chose Portuguese music, not French music for his assignment. How cool! GWSB (George Washington University School of Business) students have developed websites for their digital marketing course. Google Analytics is being used to track the success of the students’ websites. At the end of the current spring semester, the student who gets the most unique visitors to the site will win a gift certificate to Founding Farmers – restaurants in Washington, D.C. Please do me a little favor. Take a moment of your time and visit Jean-Philippe's site . It's called Your music your culture...

Hello Zazzlers and friends The Bible is a new TV series. The role of Jesus Christ is a portrait by Diogo Morgado , and, yes, he's a Portuguese actor. He's one of our top actors with a career spanning over 16 years in tv, film, and stage productions. Now he's portraying the powerful role of Jesus Christ in the epic 10-hour mini-series "The Bible" produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey and premiering March 3, 2013, on The History Channel. Diogo's film credits include a performance in the title role of Portuguese dictator Antonio De Oliveira Salazar in the hit feature film "A Vida Privada De Salazar". Diogo also has lead roles in two independent films in the U.S.A: "Red Butterfly" and "Born to Race: Fast Track". Salazar's Private Life by Jorge Queiroga (2009), with Diogo Morgado, Soraya Chaves, Margarida Carpinteiro, and others. Salazar invented the Estado Novo. This regime started as a result of a nationalist milita...