Bizarre Brazil

Conjunto Nacional Building

Safra Bank

Window full of garbage

MASP - Museu de Artes de Sao Paulo

Wikipedia (in Portuguese and in English) .

My favourites images from the first tome of Debret´s book, are:

Botocudos family and their flamboyant “clothes”. I love it, maybe I have Botocudo’s blood… Who knows…

These warriors from Guaicuru Cavalary are great.

And this gracious master of Archery and Hunting

Moon in the middle of the noon at Pelotas town (Rio Grande do Sul)

(detail)

More about Pelotas via Wikipedia (Portuguese only)

First, Mr. Kassab, Mayor of Sao Paulo City, prohibited the billboards, now is the polluted air. This is a bit arbitrary, is it not? I am very afraid about one thing: could we have permission to fart at open air? See the this post, “an almost class” about this subject by Rico Ferrari.
São Paulo vai ter radar contra poluição [Sao Paulo will had radars to detected pollution] - O Globo Online

by Pedro Mendes de Souza

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Jacare Banguela (.br) means literally the “Toothless Alligator”. It’s the most successful humor blog in Brazil and a powerful source of Internet memes. The most successful meme, indeed, is the one which spreads Jacare’s trademark: Any sign that mimes an alligator spread mouth (made with hands, legs, etc) eating something. Another successful meme is the “Drunken of the Week Award”, also featured above. I’ve collected some of the most creative from Brazilians all over the world to you:

Giselle Bundchen lookalike…

Welder Rodrigues from Cia da Comedia:

Daniel Xavier, one of the Cartoon Networks producers asked his friend Jhonnie to draw this one:

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This is a painkiller medicine TV ad. An aproximate transcript:

“Climate change is a major headache.”
“Cow farts = Methane”.
“Methane pollutes 20 times more than Carbon Dioxide”.
“A single cow produces 250 grams (8.8 Ounces) of methane a day”.
“1.4 billion cows in the entire planet produce 350 thousand tons of methane”.
“And 350 thousand tons of methane are the equivalent to the pollution produced by 50 million cars”.
“So 16% of the greenhouse gases on the atmosphere are made by farting cows (The End)”.

And the marketeers in Altana Pharma outsourced their own jobs: “If you have a good ad idea about headache, film it and we’ll pay you for it. www.curtasneosaldina.com.br”.

I have told you about Pelé –so, here you can see, in this homage, our hero – I mean the Martinican hero, Pelé – making a goal and Stallone playing a very fine football!

(Victory Homage by LazyLamont92 - You Tube)