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Some Brazilians skip Carnival for spiritual retreats
By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh
BRASILIA – With the official Carnival parades of samba schools in full swing in Brazil, many Brazilians are opting to not participate in a celebration that they believe to be excessive and immoral.
"Many immoral and nearly naked people go to Carnival. They engage in excessive drinking. We like to travel during Carnival without participating in the street dancing. We follow the Bible," Neusa Lacerda, a 50-year-old housekeeper who lives in Gama, a satellite city around 34 kilometers from Brasilia, told me in an interview.
Born into a Catholic family, Neusa says a Jehovah's Witness family raised her. She and her husband are now members of the evangelical church, and like to participate in family barbecues on the weekends.
"I have danced in the streets during Carnival in the past," she said. "But God forgives us. I suffered a lot as my father was an alcoholic, and my religion says that we cannot become drunk. It is a question of self-control."
Neusa is part of a growing number of Brazilians who are leaving the Catholic Church, which is still the largest in Brazil, and joining evangelical Protestant churches. According to the Datafolha polling firm three in every ten Brazilians (29 percent) are now evangelicals. In 1994, 75 percent of Brazilians considered themselves Catholic. In 2015 that number had fallen to 55 percent. The evangelical churches have been aggressive in recruiting new members, and use singing and other activities to attract Catholics bored by the relative traditionalism of the Catholic Church.
Carnival celebrations are big business in Brazil, with the 2016 one in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, generating R$400 million (US$129 million) in business sales, according to the mayor's office. It estimates that for every R$1 spent, the city earns R$40 in return. This year in Salvador, Bahia, the local government estimates that R$50 million (US$16 million) will be spent on 197 attractions, with more than half of the expenses being sponsored by the private sector. In the colonial city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, it was reported by the O Tempo newspaper that revelers consumed 1 million liters of beer in the 2012 Carnival.
With the whole country shutting down for four days during the peak of the Carnival, it can be hard for evangelical churches to compete with the large street celebrations all over the country. Just last weekend in pre-Carnival street celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, it was estimated that one million people took to the streets to dance behind "trio eletricos" or mobile bands that blast out happy music for hours on end.
Some evangelical churches have decided to join in the Carnival celebrations, but in squeaky-clean and religious versions. According to the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper the Bola de Neve Church in Guarulhos held a Carnival party on Feb. 10 at its headquarters, with music and dancing. But instead of the sleazy lyrics common in Carnival songs, words praising Jesus were inserted.
But most evangelical churches stay well away from dancing during Carnival and instead promote spiritual retreats where followers can spend their time in reflection and prayers. That is what the Baptist Ebezener Church of Taguatinga, around 24 kilometers from Brasilia, is doing yet again this year. It started holding this annual retreat in 2002, and runs around 20 branches of the church in Brasilia and surrounding cities.
"We are holding a spiritual retreat from Feb. 24-28, and we are expecting 3,000 people to attend," pastor J. Alves told me in a phone interview. "We have invited several guest speakers to give lectures during the day, and we have separate activities for the children and teenagers. We will charge each attendee around R$50 (US$16) a day in order to participate."
Brazil arrests: Is Daesh spreading its tentacles?
This column was printed in Arab News on July 24, 2016:
By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh
The 10 Brazilian supporters of the terror group Daesh, who were arrested on Thursday across Brazil, didn't seem to be prepared to launch attacks in the country. According to intercepted WhatsApp and Telegram messages sent to each other, the members were planning to take martial arts and shooting classes. One of them inquired online about buying an AK-47 rifle from a shop in Paraguay.
All those arrested appear to be Muslim converts, ranging in age from 20 to 50 years. A few of them knew each other personally, but most of them knew each other only through the Internet. A few of them ran their own blogs online where they praised Daesh and the various terrorist attacks the group claimed responsibility for such as the Orlando and Nice massacres. One of them, Ahmed Andrade Santos Junior, 34, from Joao Pessoa in the state of Paraiba, learned about Islam online and radicalized himself by regularly visiting extremist forums online.
O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper characterized him as a former Christian who was not at all religious and who used to box. His expounding of extremists ideas got him banned from a local mussala by the imam. He visited Egypt and was photographed there posing next to the flag of Daesh. When he returned to Brazil he openly defended Daesh and its dastardly acts.
Another suspect that was arrested was Vitor Barbosa Magalhaes, 23, of Guarulhos in greater Sao Paulo. He taught himself Arabic online and then got a scholarship to learn Arabic in Cairo for six months in 2009. It is there that he learned more about Islam and converted. His wife said in an interview that she believes him to be innocent and that he is non-violent.
Brazilian authorities are on full security alert ahead of the Rio Olympic Games, which open on Aug. 5. Already 6,000 National Force military troops have been deployed in Rio de Janeiro to ensure the safety of the expected 500,000 athletes and visitors. But many Brazilian commentators have noted that visitors to Rio have more to fear from being robbed or killed by local criminals, rather than be caught in a terror attack.
Brazilian Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes gave several interviews to the press on Thursday stressing the amateurism of the 10 suspects that were arrested, noting that two more suspects were still at large. He added that the deportation last week of the Franco-Algerian physicist Adlene Hicheur, who had been teaching at a university in Rio, but had been previously been sentenced to three years in prison in France in 2009 for allegedly planning terror attacks in France with Al-Qaeda operatives, was part of Brazil's actions against possible terror threats before the Rio Olympics. The Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann also downplayed the threat of the arrested suspects, saying that they were "bat-crazy."
President Michel Temer was reportedly unhappy with the comments of his two ministers. It is clear that Brazil, which has never endured terror attacks before, is being pressured by the United States and France to beef up its security for the Olympics, and to show it is doing something by rounding up Muslim suspects that support Daesh.
"Brazil is being pressured greatly by countries that are really targets and are demanding security guarantees. Brazil does not have expertise, but it's making an effort. It has done an important monitoring of online chatter on social media," said Paulo Velasco, a professor and researcher at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in an interview with Estado de Sao Paulo.
But some in the Muslim community here feel that the government is overreacting to please foreign governments and adding fuel to the fire of Islamophobia in Brazil, a largely Catholic nation. "The Muslim community supports the actions of the federal police as long as they are done with transparency and proof," said Jihad Hammadeh, the president of the National Union of Islamic Entities in Sao Paulo.
"There is a growing Islamophobia, principally on the part of entities that should bring security to society," warned Hammadeh, who is also an imam. "The National Union of Islamic Entities manifests its profound preoccupation with the recent events and reports that Brazilian citizens are associated with terrorism in Brazil. At the same time, we vehemently support the actions of the federal police for the investigation of these facts, but with concrete evidence and much transparency so that no injustice and persecution occurs against any citizen or group," he stressed in a statement.
Hammadeh warned that the sensational fashion in which the arrests of the 10 suspects was being reported by some media outlets in Brazil is bringing terror to the population at large and discrimination to Muslims. Unfortunately this is true. Even the big media here treats the whole issue in a sensational way.
The 10 suspects are being held initially for a 30-day period. If authorities are unable to prove any of the more serious terror charges against them, they will be released and could be made to wear electronic bracelets to monitor their movements and banned from approaching certain public sites such as sensitive government buildings, military installations and stadiums.
I understand the worry of the Brazilian government to nip any potential terror threat in the bud before any attacks take place. Despite the comments of the two ministers stressing how amateurish the 10 suspects had been, one can never be too safe, as we have seen from the Orlando and Nice attacks that were undertaken by lone wolves that had slid below the radar.
The problem is that the Brazilian population at large still does not know enough about the real Islam, and therefore ends up believing that all Muslims are bloodthirsty terrorists. This is some of the real damage that Daesh is doing to the image and reputation of Muslims worldwide — damage that will take a long time to repair.
Absurd criticism of Islam
This column was printed in Arab News on Dec. 27, 2015:
By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh
With the recent bloody attacks in Paris and San Bernardino by terrorists claiming to be doing these in the name of Islam, discrimination against Muslims has grown worldwide.
They are targeted by these new critics, many of them American, well-educated and from the middle of the political spectrum — who reacting with horror to the violence — will say the most absurd things. "Islam is a violent religion" and "Islam needs reform to become more liberal," are two of the most frequent accusations thrown at our religion.
And we also have the demagogue Donald Trump, the American billionaire entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate in next year's elections. He has a long history of saying absurd and xenophobic things from calling all the illegal immigrants from Mexico criminals and rapists, to saying in a recent speech that President Barack Obama should bar the entry of Muslims into the United States until the government finds a way deal with the threat of terrorism.
This preposterous statement brought back memories of the detention camps during the World War II into which Americans of Japanese origin were forcibly sent, even if they were born in the United States.
That Trump had the courage to say what he did, and most disturbing, that he was not forced to retract his words and apologize, shows that the American public is so afraid of more terrorist attacks happening that they are willing to sacrifice some of their constitutional rights. Not that the American president would have to get permission from Congress to begin such discrimination. The US executive branch has broad jurisdiction over immigration issues, which in theory would leave Obama with the power to stop the entry of foreign Muslims simply by invoking national security. But that would be bad for the freedom of religion and expression enshrined in the US Constitution, and certainly would lead to legal challenges in US courts.
One of the exponents of the concept that Islam is a violent religion is the American writer Sam Harris, who is the darling of late-night talk shows on US television where he spreads his poison. An avowed atheist, Harris is the perfect example of a supposed public intellectual that many liberal and well-educated Americans love to cite as if he were phenomenally wise. He does not speak the truth, so I refuse to listen to anyone who is so hateful of Islam. Unfortunately, a Brazilian friend of mine who I've known since we were both 11-years-old, asked me this week what I thought of Harris. He confessed to me that was enjoying more and more of Harris' online speeches about the alleged "Islamic evil." I said that Harris was wrong and tarnishing the reputation of Islam.
"But I thought all Islamists were terrorists," he told me. I was shocked and saddened that this word has been associated only with terrorism by people in the West.
"Of course not! There are moderate Islamists and even democratic ones as those in Tunisia and Egypt," I replied. But he did not seem convinced.
Another misunderstanding of Islam is that the religion needs a reformation such as the one Christianity underwent in Europe. Islam is an ancient religion, which is over 1,400 years old. In Islam, there are several strands of thought within the two largest branches of Sunni and Shiite followers. Just within the Sunni branch there are five schools of interpretation. Not to mention the Sufis, mystics who use poetry, music and dance to get closer to God.
As the British journalist Mehdi Hassan wrote in The Guardian in May this year, Islam has no clergy, nor a pope, as in Catholicism, for the supposed reformists to rebel against. And he says that Islam does not need to go through the bloody wars that Europe went through for 30 years in the 16th century, in which thousands of people died, only to reach a supposed "reform." For him, Muslim extremists have to rediscover their heritage of pluralism, tolerance and mutual respect that have always been in Islam, embodied in the letter that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) sent to the monks of the Saint Catherine monastery, and the peaceful coexistence of Catholics, Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain.
The Turkish writer, Mustafa Akyol, recently reminded us of the concept of "Irja" or "postponement" in Islam, which means that we do not have to judge whether people are good Muslims or not, but that we have to leave it up to God to decide in the next life, as He alone can judge us. This is a too liberal concept for the fanatics of Daesh, who want to judge and execute all "unqualified" Muslims here and now.
"The scholars who put forward this concept became known as the "murjia," or defenders of the trial postponement," Akyol wrote in his column in the New York Times. He noted that in spite of this school of thought having been dismissed as a heretical sect, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world still practice the concept. Even in the Gulf and other Arab countries the concept is used and applied regularly.
Islam is a dense, rich and complex religion. It is also full of love, peace, compassion and forgiveness. It is the beautiful side of this religion that is missing in the West's imagination.
Criminalizing hate speech
This article was published in Arab News on June 21, 2015:
By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh
In these uncertain and turbulent times, we in the Kingdom need to promote unity now more than ever. With the bloody Daesh group wreaking havoc on Iraq and Syria, and the civil war next door in Yemen, we are surrounded by chaos, violence and death. And at home we have had to deal with our own terrorists, who after being brainwashed by an extremist ideology launched two separate attacks recently on Shiite mosques in the Kingdom's eastern region in an attempt to sow sectarian strife.
It seems hard to believe, but so many of these young Saudis who are lured by the siren call of the extremists must really believe in the falsehoods that are fed to them by the terrorists, blissfully unaware that the peace and stability of Saudi Arabia has not come at an easy price for our forefathers who grew up 70 years ago, before the oil boom, in times of great financial hardships.
What we thought were going to be the liberating winds of the Arab Spring in 2011 turned mostly to violence against innocent civilians and instability that has left the whole Middle East in the utter shambles that it is in today. We should thank God a thousand times over that we can still go to bed without hearing bombs falling nearby; that we have electricity all of the time; that we have a strong government running the affairs of the nation, and an economy that gives Saudis a GDP per capita matching that of industrialized nations.
This is why I was surprised to read recently in this paper that the Shoura Council decided not to discuss proposals to set up a national unity project. Shoura members in favor of such an initiative had proposed that the government punish those convicted of promoting hate speech to jail terms ranging from six months to five years and a fine of SR500,000. The arguments against such an initiative were the ones we are used to hearing in other countries too: Why should we have new laws regulating public behavior when we already have so many laws on the books; and just writing down regulations in a new law will not necessarily produce change.
In the United States, these are usually the arguments of social conservatives who do not want hate laws enacted meant to protect people that are discriminated against, such as blacks, women and the handicapped. The point of this new law would be to stop those Saudis who make sectarian and racist comments under the guise of free speech, and who expect to get away with it. This should no longer be tolerated and our government and society should take swift action against those who insist on dividing Saudis according to their national, racial or sectarian origins.
After all, our founder King Abdul Aziz did not unify our country to just have our national fabric be ripped apart today by sectarian and racist violence.
For too long we have looked the other way as extremist preachers have spouted their words of hate and discrimination, poisoning the minds of young Saudis and thus producing new generations that hate others of their own countrymen because they are too dark, don't look Arab enough or are of a different sect. I applaud Shoura member Abdullah Al-Fifi for supporting the national unity project and for pointing out that the Islamic Affairs Ministry has not done enough, or indeed done anything visible, to implement anti-extremist programs in schools and mosques.
The government has rightly clamped down on the hate speech of imams across the country, ordering them not to talk about sectarian issues, and instructing them to have sermons (khutbas) that encourage unity and social cohesion.
With the Arab world in flames we cannot afford disunity or discord in our midst. The stakes are just too high and as the repository of Islam's two holiest mosques we indeed have a duty not just to ourselves, but to the whole Muslim world, to keep the Kingdom a safe, clean and prosperous place where all Muslims are welcome, be they from Africa or Asia.


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Shep Messing, who was a teammate of Pele on the New York Cosmos and goalkeeper on the 1972 Olympic squad, is giving Post readers his insights and opinions periodically during the World Cup. Messing also serves as MSG Network's New York Red Bulls analyst and is calling World Cup games for ESPN Radio. As told to Brian Lewis.
The Dutch have been phenomenal. Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal has been superb. On paper, the Dutch are the better team, superior to Argentina.
But let me play devil's advocate.
The cloud for me — and I'm not in general worked up over diving, I don't hate the Dutch, and I don't want tons of hate mail coming in — but I can't stand the way the Dutch have carried themselves. I can't stand it.
I never hated the Dutch or looked at Arjen Robben's diving, whining and pouting throughout his whole career. It never bothered me. But as a team, I don't think they represented themselves with any sense of humility or dignity. As a fan, I can't root for them. I don't like their approach.
The shenanigans from Tim Krul on the penalty kicks — I just can't condone or support it.
Having said that, they've been really good. Robin van Persie, Robben, Wesley Sneijder, their attack is really top-notch.
My only fallback is historically for European teams never having done it before in South America or North America. And Lionel Messi, he's on a different level.
I don't think this is one of those games that's going to be dominated. When you want to look for that seminal moment to decide a game, do you think it's going to be Sneijder or Robben or do you think it's going to be Messi?
I'm riding Messi.
I've watched him for many, many years, and I underrated him as a passer of the ball.
I like Argentina's back four. Yes, you can question goalkeeper Sergio Romero. There are question marks all over the field. But in my heart, because of the Dutch behavior, I'm rooting for Argentina.
I'm not against mental games as a goalkeeper. You do what you can do to win. I've been there, done it before. But Krul went too far in the quarterfinals against Costa Rica.
I had an incident in Olympic qualifying, it's the final game at a neutral site in Kingston against El Salvador. We'd tied twice, and we ended up tied again, so we had to have sudden death to see who makes it to the next round of qualifying for the Olympic Games. I took my shirt off as the first guy stepped up to take his penalty. I started waving it, threw it at him, yelling at him and got a yellow card.
He sailed it 30 feet over the crossbar.
But you do it on the first kick, or the fifth kick. I was going to use the psychological edge of mine that I'm crazy, I take my shirt off, I'm waving it around and throwing it, acting nuts.
If he'd done it on the first or the last, I get it. But show at least a little humility.
I just didn't like the overall behavior of the team. And I'll be rooting for Argentina.

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Richard M. Stallman, The 'Last True Hacker', Goes Too Far With Remarks On Steve Jobs
Richard Stallman is known as one of the loudest advocates of the "free software movement". That may be good or bad, but his latest remarks may have fueled a mountain of anger. His remarks, that he posted on his blog, seems in the least, very insensitive towards the death of Steve Jobs. This prompted a huge uproar across several sites, and has many wondering, why? Check out what he had to say below:
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die – not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
While everyone is entitled to their opinion, there should always be some type of remorse for the grieving and respect for the good that's been accomplish in one's life. So in a quick wrap-up of this, it's #fail Mr. Stallman. Any thoughts?
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Tiny transformation
First, the background: My husband works for a Swiss bank, and last summer he had business in Switzerland. Happily, we were all able to accompany him on the trip. It was a wonderful time for all of us.
One thing we brought home from our trip was a handful of beautiful postcards of various places we visited while in Switzerland. I love vintage travel posters, and I scooped up postcards that were reproductions of the posters. I wasn't sure what to do with them after we got home, though, until inspiration (finally!) struck.
I remembered this old tray that I've had for many years. One of my uncles made a set of these for my mom eons ago. I happened to have this lying around.
Not the most beautiful thing to look at these days, but still very sturdy even after all these years.
So I employed that most useful of tools (black spray paint) and a little Mod Podge, and now I have this:
A cool, useful serving tray and a fun reminder of our wonderful trip! For no investment other than a can of black spray paint, a bit of my bottle of Mod Podge, one disposable foam brush, and about an hour of my time. I love it.
And I love Susan's whole idea of metamorphosis. It's such an encouragement to me to see examples of things that have been changed and made new. It reminds me of one of my favorite verses in Scripture, II Corinthians 2:16: ". . . Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day."
Thank God for transformations, big and small.
15 comments:
- Rita Kent at TesoroFino.Com said...
Now I've got to try that. That came out lovely! Very creative. Come by to see my transformation! If you like what you see, please subscribe to my blog in the right hand column. Just hit the word "Follow" and stay updated on lots of great tips!
- May 18, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Fifi Flowers said...
Love the tray transformation! ADORE your blog header!
- May 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM
- Linda/"Mom" said...
* I'm totally with FIFI!!! WONDERFUL! Thanks for sharing BOTH!!!~~~ Best, Linda *
- May 18, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Lisa Shatzer said...
The tray transformation looks great!
- May 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- kimmcl said...
Hi Richella - what a great idea for a tray - I love it!! I've got at least two trays in storage waiting for some kind of transformation - thanks for the inspiration!
- May 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- kimmcl said...
Hi Richella - what a great idea for a tray - I love it!! I've got at least two trays in storage waiting for some kind of transformation - thanks for the inspiration!
- May 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- Manuela@Pleasures of Homemaking said...
Your tray came out so great! I love those postcards - they're so colorful!
- May 18, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- Christi said...
Very creative!
Christi @ a Southern Life
- May 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
- Really Rainey said...
A girls best friends... Modge Podge and black spray paint... Oh and that little hot glue gun accessory!
That was very clever of you to use those post cards like that! Where you can enjoy them instead of them being tucked away in a scrap book or drawer!
Great MM
~Really Rainey~
- May 18, 2009 at 7:32 PM
- susan said...
I love this! I did this on a tray for my son's bathroom (used sporting and concert ticket stubs) but I put mine under glass! I love having our good memories close to enjoy them!
- May 18, 2009 at 7:38 PM
- Kammy said...
Very lovely and a great way to keep your memories !
Hugs ~ Kammy
- May 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- Marie Reed said...
I'm a postcard aholic so i just LOVE this idea!
- May 19, 2009 at 5:00 AM
- Kim @ Manning Family Tree said...
The tray is fabulous! What a great way to remember your trip.
- May 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Chris said...
I looked all over town for a tray just like this over the weekend! I love how it turned out!
- May 19, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- Serena's 24/7 said...
are the cards-postcards? cool idea...dual sentiment. love it. :)
- May 20, 2009 at 10:35 AM
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The children who were taken to the hospital said they had hit their heads, but there were not any apparent physical injuries to anyone in the vehicles, Weary said.
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Letter: Armed Forces continue to defend
The Armed Forces of the United States have defended this nation for well over two and a quarter centuries. The soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guardsmen who have been injured, wounded, and killed in defense of our country often have been very committed to their faith in God. Should it be surprising that those who face serious injury and death so regularly might focus more consciously on matters of eternity? It seems only natural that the gravity of military life should lead to serious consideration of spiritual matters.
In this, as in many areas of life, George Washington is a towering example of what it means to be a great soldier in a republic. Washington was extremely disciplined and deeply religious. These traits were not merely coincidental. Rather, they were self-reinforcing. So it is with members of the modern Armed Forces. Religious conviction is not merely an add-on belief, it is like a strand in a rope that complements the others while greatly increasing strength.
Military life in the U.S. has always had a strong religious component for the reasons given but also, as Alexis deTocqueville noted, because Americans have been and continue to be genuinely religious people. Rather than being divisive, the strong religious presence in the U.S. military has had a unifying effect. In the times of greatest peril to life and limb, it is a great comfort to know that many of those with whom your life is entrusted share a commitment to each other, to the United States, and to God. Simply put, devotion to moral principles derived from a Higher Power allows for a greater level of trust to exist among members of the military.
I am in great unease to have noted a growing hostility to religion within the armed services in the last decade. Unfortunately, pressures to impose a secular, anti-religious culture on our nation's military services have intensified tremendously during the Obama administration. This pressure exists across the armed services, but it has become extremely acute in the U.S.A.F. The Air Force has had the great misfortune to be targeted by anti-Christian activists. Regrettably, some of the highest-level officers within the Air Force appear to be cooperating with this effort, and those in the other military branches are feeling its effects as well. I do not see this as benefitting our fighting men and women and would hope that the American people would seek to correct this. Thank you.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
I am 73. I have lived a full life. My heart has been full, and it has been broken and emptied. My house has been full, and it has been destroyed and laid bare. I have survived both. If nothing else, I am a testament to surviving.
I believe one should live well. Live honestly. Love with an open heart. Be true. True to oneself and true to all you come in contact with. Do not lie. To yourself or to others.
The basics of life are fairly simple.
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Client: Glamour
Photo Director: Suzanne Donaldson
Beauty Editor: Michaela Buratti
Fashion and beauty photographer Arthur Belebeau likes to create "clean, graphic and dynamic images." "When I look through the camera I always try to find the most graphic way to do it, either by filling up the frame or leaving negative space," he says.
For a Glamour magazine story about favorite beauty products for nails, lips, eyes and hair, he wanted to shoot tight close-ups of the models, which meant the compositions couldn't be overly complicated, but he also needed to show the products in use. Belebeau says, "The hardest part was to create something graphic and poppy, and use all the tools and props that they gave me."
He wanted to keep the lighting fairly consistent for all four images, but made adjustments for each subject. For his tight shot of fingernails, Belebeau, who is based in New York City and shoots for clients like Saks Fifth Avenue, Dior Beauty, Dasani and L'Oréal Paris, decided to shoot macro shots, with his camera on a tripod about five inches from the hand model's fingertips, rather than shooting wider and cropping the image to get the composition he wanted. "For the quality of the image, I try not to crop," the photographer notes.
Belebeau photographed the story at New York City's Sun Studios in a shooting space with a white cyclorama. Along with Belebeau and his assistants, Michaela Buratti, beauty editor at Glamour, was on the set with the models, stylists and a manicurist. The hand model rested her arm on a beauty table to keep it from moving, Belebeau recalls. "If she moved two inches, she was out of the frame."
Before any shoot, Belebeau typically sketches out ideas for each composition. Once he's begun working, he'll experiment: "Then I try for an accident." In sketching the nail polish image, he wanted the hand model's fingers to be crossed. "I started with just the fingers, and then I started to add one element to it at a time—the product, the dripping." The nail image was the last shot of the day. "I remember I had to shoot about 400 frames until something started happening in the image," he says. An assistant put too much nail polish on the applicator, and it dripped. Belebeau recalls that at the moment it happened, Buratti, who was watching on a monitor, screamed. "I thought: That's what I'm looking for," Belebeau says. He had the assistant duplicate the drip ten to 15 more times, letting it fall just short of the end of the model's finger so her French manicure wouldn't have to be redone. After several more shots, he recalls, "We all went and had a drink."
Belebeau planned to use the same basic setup for all four shots. He photographed his subjects about eight feet from the cyc wall, which he lit using strobes with umbrellas placed on light trees—"basically c-stands with lights pounding on the background," Belebeau explains.
To get what he calls his "signature, poppy lighting," Belebeau combines soft lights, either diffused or bounced off of white foam core, which flatter the skin, and hard lights, "so it looks poppy," he says.
On all the shots, he used Profoto lights on 2400 watt-second packs. His diffused light was a large softbox that was usually behind him. "It was the same lighting throughout the day but I had to adapt the angles," he says. "Because I was so close to the subject with my camera, sometimes I would create a shadow with my head or my camera."
To add contrast to the image of shiny nail polish, he also used a single bare head that was placed three to four feet from his subject. On larger beauty shots, he notes, "I'll use more than one hard light. I'll put one behind the model, for example, to add highlights to her hair."
Another image from Belebeau's Glamour shoot. © Arthur Belebeau
Belebeau shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III tethered to two monitors: one for the digital tech, and one for the beauty editor. He photographed the fingernails with a macro f/2.8 100mm lens. "It eats up a lot of your light so you have to open your lens maybe a half-stop or a stop," he says. To catch the motion of the drip, he shot at 1/160 of a second.
When he was shooting the lips, he experimented with macro extension tubes that allowed him to try different lenses while focusing closely on the model's mouth. He took the image that ran in the magazine on a 50mm lens with a macro extension tube.
Belebeau has worked with Denise Ierardi at 451 Imaging Ltd. in New York City on almost all his assignments for the past ten years. "When you work with someone so long, communication is easy," he says. "She knows what the client is looking for, and what kind of direction we're aiming for." Because the retouching on the images was limited to "color and a few small things," Belebeau says, he first sent Glamour's editors his selection of five to six favorite takes for each of the four photos, then had Ierardi clean up and color correct the images they chose to run.
Belebeau adds, "I loved it because they picked my first choices." The four images were published last year in a four-page layout in Glamour.


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BT's eagerly awaited video game streaming service is set to launch in the UK next week.
The internet service provider's OnLive service – which will provide on-demand access to the latest titles - will be introduced at the E3 expo on Tuesday June 7th.
Gamers are already being invited to register to play online, and reserve their own unique player tags, in anticipation of the launch.
They will be able to use a live, remotely controlled online video stream - delivered via their broadband connection – to access PC, PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 games.
OnLive Chief Executive Officer Steve Perlman said the service will arrive on UK shores with "a vastly more expanded offering" than the US launch a year ago.
He explained that initially more than 100 different games will be available, and that there will be full compatibility across a wide range of HDTVs, tablets, PCs and Macs.
Mr Perlman also announced a wide range of exclusive social features, including "massive international spectating/voice chat, Brag Clip videos and instant-play Facebook integration".
BT agreed to partner with OnLive USA over a year ago, but the video streaming launch has been hit by delays over the last 12 months.