Hi, I am Joćo Reis, J F Reis, Joćo Filipe Reis
I hope you enjoy my art, poetry, interests, old news and what anchors me tho this world. Contact me each time your heart beats 
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JFR - Joao Reis - Joćo Filipe Reis (www.JFReis.com, www.JoaoReis.com, www.JoaoFilipeReis.com) is the author of all works (see art): paintings, poetry, photos, thumb nails images, animations, web site development, etc.
Felipe The Messenger, Filipe The Messenger, Philipe The Messenger, Fillipo The Messenger is my pseudonym. Why? It is the job I have now in a public service in London after my personal Diaspora... and not many can pronounce my first name 'Joćo'.
Please help me to keep the site fresh, readable, and with few mistakes.
With the exception of a good group of images in the ABC French project (mainly comic images of animals taken from a free disk of one magazine I believe) I am the author of all photos, paintings, art work, including animations, and website.
If you show interest in a print of a poem or a painting please do contact me mentioning the name of the work. If agreed transactions will be made in a safe way.
Why not to learn about where I live through the local doors.
Why not to learn about where I live through the local windows.Why not to learn about where I live through the local signs.
A bit of a laugh! They still are a nuisance but since those days I had pure comptent against cell/mobilephones I have started using one, and I even have used it for instantaneous poetry in Globish (global English or English that people understand in 150 countries).
Languages you can use (an * if I can speak fluently in case of phone calls - **
if I understand):
(e) English *
(f) French **
(i) Italian **
(g) German
(p) Portuguese *
(r) Romana
(s) Spanish **
(l) Latvian
In Angola Dec25 is a holiday called Family Day (90% of the population are not Christians).
My family day is any rare day when I have a day out with my children (one is missing in the photos).
Walking around this ship when she moored London. It was a good learning exercise about both margins of the river Thames.
Not much about the site: many photos sequences happened in a special time of my life when I did not have much where to go and things happened around because I lived in a room on the top of one tube station (Preston Road)
Enjoy the full screen toggling F11 at any time. You can even use the full screen at all the time since each page has a way to go back to the home page, then toggle F11 to get the browser menu.
Yes, it is art but usually illegal.
I particularly use the fast Opera and the slower Ex-other one. .
Animations and F5If the window is active (sorry if not) you can see the animations. Use F5 to activate the window.
In the home page you can click the top left image to reload the window.
Are images that call other pages
Use F11 to enjoy full screen. This is the home page that originally supported individual tutorials, in this case French. You can enjoy 'French Pics' and more than 300 photos (many transformed) and art work. Many were taken from a free disk from a magazine
The driver decided to turn left... after the curve... and did not have time to brake.
The efficiency of the police, fireman, ambulance service, vehicle recovery, all in an admirable co-ordination was ... well ,,, admirable... This is a homage for all those services that really have a job that one does not have the opportunity to see very often.
I am a 'doer', American expression(?), eclectic, and no inhibitions, so putting a stick in a cheap camera did it.
The 'Kingsbury Walkers', like many similar organisations, depends on the charisma and leadership of one person. They provide a valuable contribution for everybody that needs to see an end to this illness called social isolation.
Ruby's silent. SORRY! Sorry! Sorry!
It happens everyday, in some cultures, classes, temperaments, arguments are silent, but in this case (all ended well) it was loud, a bit loud while it lasted.
Another moment of a life, a child in this case.
Why not giving a Panda the celebrity status that other Pandas and Ferraris have?
The 'Affluenza' society?
What to say? Traffic nonsense...
The yearly Kingsbury fair (see Councils/parks)
To keep myself busy and active, while waiting for the day to start the 'messenger's job', I walked through some local parks. I also created some links to the Councils parks departments, as well as those that themes about bio-diversity. Many parks had some investment since so take stock of the time... Alas not all links are working at this time. In time I will correct them .. if possible, otherwise the nearest page to parks for that London council will be available.
I was born in Lisbon, on the 25.10.1950, Picasso's day, Scorpio, moved to
Angola in 1961 and to London in 1994.
I did most of my studies in Angola, alas, they were interrupted many times for
personal, social or political reasons.
I always had a handicap with talking and communicating (I started talking with
4 years old) but I have always persevered to read and write as much as I could.
Sometimes I talk a lot, still a surprise.
Painting and building things were my hobbies. Some of my primary school
paintings and drawings were still in exhibition many years later, after I left
the school. I never gave a thought about that, probably a case of neighbourhood
sympathy, since this extraordinary woman, the late Mariazinha Afonso, one of
the persons I have admired most in my life, was the head of that school.
After a life of ups and downs, I tried to study Architecture (I was the first
representative student in the talks with a group of architects who were
reunited to structure and promote the degree). I got fed up with those minds
and the course opened during independent Angola with the support of the Italian
state.
More problems occured, and I ended up studying Maths, but, again, I had to give
up. However, a group of friends (inter discipline researchers, IA, etc) were in
permanent contact with the last scientific, social, arts, politics, etc, of the
cultural and commercial dominant rival worlds of those seventies. I read and
learn a lot of academic things with them. Not good enough though, but I have
very strong opinions about the ways things are.
I did my first paintings then, all but one lost.
Then, two decades in the oblivion.
In London, in the place where I was living alone with my children, I built a
big shed to become my studio, but I lost the place later on (rules of honour do
not exist in the English state, and I was caught up by my old ways).
It took ten more years to start, eventually, painting. What you see in this
website, finally, is what I have produced in the last year and half.
Means are scarce but that is the fate of all artists.
Still away of the pettish realities of this world, still angry when they happen
against me.
In London, while learning the language, I had the opportunity to take a degree,
Business Information Systems (based on my former professional work), not my
first choice or what I had expected in my later age . But KAfKA's still alive.
Sorry for the translations or adaptations of quotes, ideas, etc, that follows
but 'Traduttore Traditore" (translator traitor).
Also, I lost my personal library when I left Angola, so it is difficult to go
back in time and try to remember names, publishers and dates. But some of the
people, ideas and quotes or adaptations that I like to cite are:
"I do not fear the contradiction", adaptation of a speech of Bertrand Russell (about Experimental Science, I believe)
Only a few logical ways of thinking but 18 fallacies and some more fuzzy logics one can think about
What you see is not what you get (Physiology of the eyes)
'Hope and future', when it is in you or someone else, even a reflexion...
'To Educate is to Emancipate', a self-explanatory title...
'To Emancipate is to set one free', for me in a liberal individual way, but considering the whole as well.
'Man Man's wolf'
"Experimental Sciences cannot prove many believes but loud believes do suck!"
What about Albert Memi and his book 'The Enslaved/Dominated Man'?
'Culture is Behaviour', from a book about the daily life of a Latin American family.
Sexuality: Each person is one different sexual being. ('Spartans', etc)
From Mars: "Earth beings, called humans, by wanting to be different, look all the same"
Being right is the most difficult thing in one's life (a quote that I think is mine, but who knows?)
About people and power: one book is enough: "Geographie des Revolutions", Press Universitaire...
About dynamic cultures and the fear of change: "Las Americas Negras", a PHD thesis from a French
Reading an article by a good newspaper's writer gives me pleasure more than knowing that she/he can eventually be right (my quote)
About wars: Please, know how to win a war after the war has been won
Poverty is a disease
Love and not being cool, or love and still being alive...
Slavers and slaves do not differ, only a few are not, would not be ever both, slavers or slaves...
Epitaph for J.Kafka (my quote)
K in life
K in death