Simone
Woke up today and saw a post on a lovely hyper local newspaper we have in town, about a street art piece by mano.jmk.
Simone de Oliveira is one of the greatest singers in the country (she recently retired), and the street artist is her grandson.
Went there.
@maique Looks like a professional local news paper! I love those. Is it free to read or subscribed? I hit no paywall.
@ndreas It’s brilliantly made, by a few very good journalists, with decades of experience in more traditional newspapers. No paywall, I believe, although you can contribute to the project.
@maique He’s clearly a great artist himself. Strange how the best singers smoke. Nat King Cole, probably the best male voice ever smoked like a chimney. I recently quit myself, that’s why I’m not on the Billboard Top 40. 😉
@maique That's fantastic. Is it all about Lisboa? And covers politics, culture and news in general? Is it online only or also on paper? How are they making money?
@ndreas It is, really. Of course the names of the journalists mean nothing to you, but they are really great ones, references in the country.
It’s all about Lisbon. You can try to translate their About page, and see if that makes any sense.
They also organize conferences, have a podcast, and do tons of other things.
As far as funding goes, from what I could find out, they are independent, no media group is behind them, and they have a few grants and crowdfunding.
@maique It is, honestly, my dream to do exact the same thing for a Swedish audience, in Stockholm. Collect a few dedicated colleagues and start a thing like that.
@ndreas Oh, that’s cool! In their funding page they have a couple of ideas. They got money from Facebook, Google, and some others. One of grants comes from the posts in creole, so I guess you can’t apply for that one, but it seems there are still some ways to fund a project like that.
@pratik It is a great one, yes. As far as the flooring goes, if you hadn’t mentioned it, I wouldn’t give it a second thought🙂 The whole city is like this 🤣 Not exactly the same, of course, most of it is white only, no design in black, but this is the norm here. Shoes complain a lot, as do trolleys from tourists!
@Pilchuck It should be printed on every guide to the country by now, but somehow we still watch in disbelief as the trolleys keep coming 🤣
@maique «They» should invent wheel cushions. To put around the trolley wheels. Or trolley-trolleys with bigger rubber wheels. @pilchuck
