Welcome to Daniel´s Secret Page. If you´ve come this far, you deserve to be allowed into Daniel´s brightest secrets.
Here you will learn about Daniel´s interests other than music. They are many, and definitely worth exploring. Enjoy!
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24 meters under
the sea in Salvador |
Exploring the island
of Serifos - Greece |
I finally got my
own street |
Rafting in the
Paranhana River |
Not a bad place
to rehearse |
Winemaker at Château
Thibeaud Maillet
Bordeaux - France |
Jumping in
Berlin, Germany |
Navagio's beach
in Zakynthos - Greece
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Jetski riding in
the Bahamas |
If I owned a store,
it would be called
Daniel High... |
Scubadiving trip in
Angra dos Reis - Brazil
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Sandboarding in
Genipabu - Brazil |
Exploring Old
Cracow - Poland |
See yaaaaaaaa... |
Walking to Machu
Pichu - Peru |
Vini, Vidi, Vinci
in Venice - Italy
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By the fireplace |
Relaxing in
Amsterdam's Voldenpark |
Gregorian chant manuscripts
in Florence, Italy |
Sunset at Daniel´s home |
Daniel's Family
With his dad Henry &
companion Lilian |
With hy sister Silvia in
Central Park - New York |
Dad Henry & (in memoriam) mom Raquel and grandpas |
Daniel's nanny Maroca |
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One of my favorite comics, by Quino |
One of my favorite phrases: "The truth is a lie on duty."
The Incredible World of Escher
| For a long time, I've been a fan of the works by Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972). His way to twist perspective to create impossible worlds has always fascinated me. |
| He loved to demonstrate "the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties", and found it "a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity." |
| Here are six of my favorite prints by him: |
Ascending and
Descending |
Relativity |
Waterfall |
Concave & Convex |
High and Low |
Print Gallery |
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One of my favorite books: |
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| This absolutely fantastic book compares the music of Bach with the prints of Escher and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, demonstrating how all of them work simultaneously on several interconnected levels. It goes on to show how our minds function on similar structures, and how the knowledge of this functioning can be used to develop artificial intelligence. |
| If that sounds too complicated, don’t worry (not too much, at least): before each chapter there is a fictional dialogue between Achilles and the Tortoise which introduces some of its concepts in plain English. Plus, Gödel, Escher, Bach won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, so it should be a nice book, right? |
| I wouldn’t call it easy reading but, boy, it is definitely fascinating stuff. A great workout for your brain! |
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