October 5th - 17:56

Title: October 5th - 17:56 Medium: Super-8 film Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Resolution: 2880 x 2160 File Type: H.264 Codec / MP4. Comments: Camila met me at the train station through a mutual friend from the NFT community. She is a digital illustrator and was showing me some of her animations. At the time we met she was just wrapping up her meme card. We spent the day together walking around her home city. Starting from the famous blue tiles that were elaborately designed as a mural for municipal buildings, churches, and train stations. There is something about that blue and white color combination that stops you in your tracks and takes your breath away. The same feeling when you first step foot into Portugal urban areas and you see the levels of details and patience that makes up the road and sidewalks. Millions of tiny tiles that make up the roadways and walkways in their intricate designs mapped out all around the city. Everywhere you look is art, the masonry is exquisite when you start to take notice of the little things that bring joy to the city. Camila brought me to her favorite street art areas with murals and graffiti. We climbed up on a ledge overlooking the main train station to catch the sunsetting slowly. The light was hitting her so beautifully, it felt like a movie scene. In fact, it was since we were making an unconventional film through portraits of people in their places! Light and flare creates this heavenly glow. You can taste the light without being blinded by the sun. The lens of the camera is protection where as the film takes the heat from the exposure. A perfect balance and harmony between glass and chemistry. How ever did scientists and artists figure this out hundreds of years ago? A mirrored reality, and one that is in motion. Cinema is magic. It shows us what happens over time through light and action. Is that why they are called actors? Camila and I continued on our way to watch the sunset from a higher perspective, one of the most beautiful views in the city. It was what felt like a dilapidated castle that turned into an urban garden by the locals. Recycling and reusing the space in new ones while honoring the old architectures. We watched the flowers bloom and the food grow while the light was descending from the sky. Boats passing by and seeing from an eagles eye, what was on the other side? Night fell over us. We descended down the spiralling roads to find a fork in the road where each of us started to head home. But before we did, Camila and I walked across what I like to call, Eiffel's bridge. A massive landmark that connects two side of the city designed and constructed by Eiffel's team. The guy who built the vertical Eiffel tower. Built a horizontal bridge that stretches into two parts of the city. The locals call it, Maria Pia Bridge. Camilla was getting annoyed I kept calling it Eiffel's bridge. The one thing I noticed about Portugal that I truly admire is the cities adopt and integrate elements from other cities. Such as Eiffel's bridge from Paris, Cristo sculpture from Brazil, and the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco. To share ideas and implement them. There is something honorable about bringing home a piece of another place or culture. To make you feel like the world is one through what people have built all over the globe. The brink of a city inadvertently creating world peace through architecture? I like to think so. Let's keep sharing ideas and honoring each others visions. Where we all feel like home anywhere you go.