OK, I confess. These three photos have been pinched from Orkut, which is the most popular personal networking site in Brazil; I would only have committed such a crime against intellectual property (and the artistic quality of the stolen works is indubitable) if I knew my villainy would be forgiven. I wouldn’t think of posting an unauthorized photo by our dear friend Paranaguá, because he is a professional photographer, and he merits far more recognition than I am capable of giving him. Instead, the present act of thievery is only meant to recognize one of the many talents of our stalwart student and companion in arms, Ricardo Gramoza aka Bogus.
I have seen a lot of pictures of the ICBIE façade, but this one is perfectly Hellenic (if it weren’t for the darn electricity pole, but that’s not Bogus’s fault. It also shows Bogus’s house, immediately to the right of the casarão).
And this next one shows the participants of last weekend’s workshop on cultural projects. Bravo, Bogus!
This next one shows the happy English students with their teacher. (If you haven’t been carefully following this blog, I bet you won’t correctly guess who the teacher is!) Now, this lovely picture quite obviously was NOT taken by Bogus. Yet he posted it on Orkut! I think we’ll just let HIM worry about intellectual property infringements.
Roy Zimmerman
