Turning Quotes Into Masterpieces

I woke up this Thursday Morning with a big surprise. I just saw someone posting a quote of mine via twitter, and that gave me such a pleasure I had tears in my eyes when I saw it:

Thanks @hermankasper for quoting my #ThursdayThoughts! #ThursdayGoals are about searching for the best places, which is always from inside! https://t.co/PJWZQZjXsx

— Ana Claudia Antunes(@AnaBowlova) October 13, 2016

Then I found out that there are lots of people who keep sharing my quotes. And they even make it better by sharing their own way of saying the same thing. For example, my saying

"Life keeps throwing the stones. And I keep finding the diamonds."

And Many Thanks @hilltreasures for quoting me in such endearing way. See, life keeps throwing some precious stones. AND I FIND THEM WELL! :) https://t.co/PdOJrTf1jF

— Ana Claudia Antunes(@AnaBowlova) October 13, 2016

“True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.”

― Ana Claudia Antunes #quote #Truelove #roses
for a thoughtful person... pic.twitter.com/A5TG5Pr5Nu

— aki † (@aki_official1) October 6, 2016

A portrait of me through my quote, Inspired by the words that I wrote:

💎Life keeps throwing me stones.
And I keep finding the diamonds...💎

~ Ana Claudia Antunespic.twitter.com/IQky2mnZl8

— Laura Mowry(@MowryLaura) October 25, 2016
It fills my heart with joy when I look at what people make of quotes from my books, they do some creative stuff with my own words, and through my thoughts. I'm glad that I can share that with you. Here I share some quotes of mine that people already displayed with some inspiring images.

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or...~Ana Claudia Antunes#amwriting #writer pic.twitter.com/M23hnpKdbO

— Susan McIntire ☆彡 (@susanjmcintire)

It's like Heaven on Earth!

“I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.”
― Ana Claudia Antunespic.twitter.com/jRVvwEivOL

— PhoenixRising(@nicratwoman) April 8, 2015

Thanks @TrishaMalika for reminding me of that and sharing my quote. It gives me such a joy that I want to share it also. #sharingiscaring https://t.co/7xNy0mVTOX

— Ana Claudia Antunes(@AnaBowlova) October 13, 2016

Beautiful portraying of my feelings, Translating my words into images.

“True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.”
Ana Claudia Antunes pic.twitter.com/0qFzdQzdWI

— Chris F. W. Anderson (@1_feather) February 14, 2016

Yet another beautifully expressed image inspired by the same feeling:

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes #love #Quotestoliveby #quote pic.twitter.com/qRS5d5udqD

— Geoff Hudson-Searle (@GeoffHSearle) July 23, 2016

#Klimt #TheKiss #ART #quote #TrueLove I love to be quoted like this. It's such a pleasure to see art within the art. All imaginative souls creating together the divine within us! I also create pictures of my own thoughts, and I wrote a book of poetry with images that I call Photos of Thoughts:

The Tao of Physical & Spiritual http://www.lulu.com/shop/ana-claudia-antunes/the-tao-of-physical-and-spiritual/paperback/product-3533066.html https://www.amazon.com.br/Amazons-Ancient-Medieval-Memoirs-English-ebook/dp/B00QLFNUNW #amazon #memoirs #painting #quotes #book #quoteoftheday #tao #physical #spiritualgrowth #holistichealth #healthystyle #wellbeing #wellness #yogaeverywhere #dance #survival #heartofgold💛 #heart #happiness #quotestoliveby https://www.amazon.com.br/-Z-Happiness-Breaking-Through-Separates-ebook/dp/B00OBQT79 #bookgram #bookstagram #freeebooks on #kindleunlimited https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OBQT79Y

A photo posted by Ana Claudia Antunes (@anabowlova) on Sep 5, 2016 at 2:16pm PDT

https://www.amazon.com.br/Amazons-Ancient-Medieval-Memoirs-English-ebook/dp/B00QLFNUNW #amazon #memoirs #painting. #recycledpaper #ecoline #watercolor #quotes #book #quoteoftheday #tao #physical #spiritualgrowth #holistichealth #healthystyle #wellbeing #wellness #yogaeverywhere #dance #survival #ridinghorse #horse #warriorprincess #heartofgold💛 #heart #happiness #quotestoliveby https://www.amazon.com.br/-Z-Happiness-Breaking-Through-Separates-ebook/dp/B00OBQT79 #bookgram #bookstagram #freeebooks on #kindleunlimited https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OBQT79Y

A photo posted by Ana Claudia Antunes (@anabowlova) on Jul 8, 2016 at 11:01pm PDT

Which image comes to your mind when you read or hear my words?

Blog Action Day: The Power of We

Imagine if this picture happened to you: instead of swimming and playing in the pool you were obliged to stay and live for good inside a bathtub. Well, that´s what in fact is been happening to a way-too-shameful-for-us-human-to-even-enumerate-such-huge-number of whales that are living into this nightmare around the globe right at this moment.

Now picture this: What if they could live free, in the open sea, as they were meant to be as their divine power and as God intended them to be? And you could see them not from so far and yet without touching them and get too close you would be magnetized and magnified by their beauty and splendour?? Would this be the perfect world? The Eden on Earth??

What if you live inside a tank made of cement where you were not able to send signs to your fellow men and instead your cries would only deafen you even more? I bet you would want to die, wouldn´t you?? So now just imagine how much noise humans make and how this noise can seriously affect the whales’ ability to hear each other’s calls in the sea. That would explain why so many sea mammals are losing their abiltity to find their way and many die due to the active sonar that leads to beaching. Not to mention in an amusement park where people clap their hands, they laugh, cry, scream, and where loud music and whistles play major role to make people have fun. Let alone their struggle for surviving in such small place yet loud ambiance. And although they may look happy they all are crying inside. For to keep the entertainment industry going on they are obliged to take lots of medicine, the males have their sperms taken so that they can breed females with artificial insemination. And the slavery continues in such unnatural way. And this is actually what is happening to a lot of animals that are forced to live in captivity and never leave that unhealthy enviroment and do you know why? Just to keep us humans entertained. Isn´t that sick, monstrous and outrageous? But unless the same "us humans" do something with the power of we we will continue to allow that to happen God knows for how long, or until when that time considering that many of the same animals we keep in danger are already endagered species. And now I just found out through a documentary in the UK that iron is crucial to ocean health. Whales recycled iron in the ocean by eating it in krill and making it available to phytoplankton in faeces. So that´s at least IRONic that we may save the planet and beat the climate change by keeping the whales in the sea to allow them to sort of leaving their shit out when nature calls.

So much can be done yet, to empower our ecosystem instead of keeping causing so much harm and risking to destroy it to a point of no return. We should get together, all of us, and make the whole world see how whales and other sea lives play a crucial role in keeping our oceans healthy. And if these endangered mammals become extinct we are the only ones to blame and most of all we will be in trouble ourselves. All we need to do is to inform as many people as possible to not only spend their money elsewhere but to stand with THE POWER OF US against marine amusement parks and against the capture of cetaceans.

This post is my way of taking part of Blog Action Day, a Global initiative which I participate since it has begun in 2007:

In 2011 the theme was FOOD
In 2010 we talked about a very serious issue:WATER
In 2009 I somehow missed it to talk about "My Multimedia Books"
In 2008 I was "Fighting Poverty in the World"
And the last and the first but not the least to burst Global Warming

Happy Leap Day!

Every four years I do some crazy stuff for the leap day. After all we only have that special occasion as much in a lifetime. And according to the series 30 Rock, what you do this day doesn't count anyway. So I'd rather make something funny and creative instead. Like I quoted in my twitter account:

Thanks to @alecbaldwin and #30rock I'm wearing yellow and blue. Don't ask me why, just watch the show on the episode about #leapday

A leap year ago... funny bunny but I think it should exist, this expresssion to mention each four years, it passes way too fast. So fast, it jumps over the years.


The last leap day I spent creating ecological bags through recycle materials. You can view them on my entry HERE


I also managed to create a clothline based upon the art of camouflage.


Imagine turning a bag into a dress or a top... or going to the beach with a pareo having a small bag looking like a shell-

This year I decided to spend it leaping, literally. So I jumped on my facebook page and threw a bunch of pics of me and my Preta jumping like bunnies. What a thrill!


I don't want to jump into conclusions but I'm guessing everyone is expressing a different mood about this extra day, although I'm pretty sure the majority of people just like to spend the day like every other day from the other 365. And maybe that's what makes everything so special to me, that I want to celebrate each and every trivial occasion, it's my way of dealing with things that counts after all.

And you?? How are you spending leap day? Hope you have an awesome bissextile year!

The Call (Guess Who's On The Line?)

A teenage girl wakes up after a call over her cellular phone by a stranger. That person grabs her attention saying things that only she could know. So she keeps the whole day grabbed over the phone while she tries to keep people she loves out of trouble. And that's when she gets into a lot of trouble. All the twenty-four hour ordeal ends with a birthday surprise for her. Was that all a prank from a friend or was it all true? Who's calling her? Who's on the line? The story takes place in the streets of San Francisco. The main character, Jennifer, talks to a ghost... on her cell. In fact she doesn't really know who she's talking with, but she does believe in everything the ghost says. Spooky! But all that only reflects her inability to fit in anywhere in the world. Also she struggles with her parents divorcing. So she is also looking for a place she can call home only to find out her home is no where near she thought it would be.

I'm so thrilled how the script ended up to be that I published my screenplay with no doubt this will turn out to be a very good story to tell in the big screen. This is a very contemporary piece, I took a commom device (a cellular) to tell the story for it refers to all of us, on how someone manage to get things done when dealing with so many distractions nowadays. And that comes with an advice: Having ADD syndrome since I was a child, and hardly listenning to what teachers would say in class to then getting bad notes in the end of the month made me learn it in the hard way. Discipline, my friend, discipline. And a lot of good will!! After an hour or so, you will feel relieved to how much you've advanced. That's a great reward at the end of the day you know a little was accomplished. Baby Steps Work Wonders!!

The last ScriptFrenzy I worked on the adaptation of my NaNoWriMo "The Pierrot's Love", which was quite an interesting experience, actually. I tried to maintain the rhythm of the story while I kept the word count in balance with the pages from the original manuscript and I finished like a clock, right on time for a tea. But then it was not as fun as it was this year when I really grabbed a piece of nothingness, well, not really nothingness as much as a small tiny little idea I had in the back of my head to turn it into a script. That sort of no man's land and you not knowing where it will turn out to be next gave me such a thrill that I couldn't stop thinking of the story and what would come next. That kept me going all the way and I rather finished the 100 pages almost half of the time I took on my first script adventure. So, characters may change, views will definitely do the work, and the story would give you the jest as much as you allow it to flow. Hope you have a blast with my script... well, I did!

Can't wait to make this one as a feature movie...would love to see the faces of the audience holding on to their chairs with their hairs up only trying to figure out who's on the line!!

You can get a sneak peek with a preview in the link below:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-call-%28guess-whos-on-the-line%29/15523580?showPreview

Face it!

What does that do to you? Can you feel a sense of accomplishment, or some sort of serenity inside of you while watching that? Can you feel as if you belonged to them all? Or is that just me who wants to be inspired by great artists?? I feel Art in motion with much emotion. Elation!!

While watching this video I feel inspired by the amalgam of artistic displays that Philip S. Johnson constructed so well while combining music and images in a fusion of styles, colours and rythms, so much in tune with all the manifestation of cultures around the world, making them dance as one.

"CHI" FOR THEE!