Bizarre Brazil

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

Gypsies

This photo is from a place (circa 1930-1936) where meat was salted and dried and produce a kind of meat we call, until today, “charque”. They used to put the salted meat at this wood device to be dried.

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

Unemployed since the eighties, He-Man left Greyskull to live in Brazil. Though he’s a pitiful failure since he was fired from Hollywood, he’s still powerful in some ways, so this motorbike shop employs him as a debt collector.

Thanks, Solon.

Hunt a tiger

Old picture of Guaiba River, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

Views of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Praia Grande

Rio de Janeiro Bay

Tenerife Peak, Cabo Frio

Old picture of Rio Grande Harbour.

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

So this southerner young couple was a bit bored with urban semi-civilized Brazilian life and decided to live Diogenes style: in a barrel, literally. They bought a big oak barrel from a neighboring winemaker, and installed it in a small patch of land in a hill (1400 meters above sea level) far from any town in a mountain called Montenegro (Black Mountain) in the southern Rio Grande do Sul state. In this video you can see them showing to a national TV reporter how they use and recycle everything on their property, how they live “close to nature and birds” and so on.

“In a full moon night I can read without artificial lights” says the girl at the ending. Diogenes “get out of my sun, Alexander of Macedonia” of Sinope should approve of them.

Thanks for the hint, Träsel.

Map of Rio de Janeiro Bay