23rd June 2007

Living In A Barrel

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.

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A vida num tonel (Fantástico, 17/06/2007)
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“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.

Diogenes depicting his lamp, barrel and diet of onions - by John William Waterhouse

Thanks for the hint, Träsel.

posted in Bizarre, Brazil in the news, Southerners, Videos by Rico Ferrari | 1 Comment