Posts Tagged as ‘Brazil’
May 10, 2010
The Irony
Dirty Money looks pretty good: it’s a documentary about Brazilian skate culture. Apparently they’re not interested in sponsorship or any of that jazz – just making videos and having a good old time. Which is cool. Except that in the bottom corner of the film’s website it says “Patrocínio Cultural: Nike SB” which, for the [...]
May 1, 2010
Brasil 45
Inspired by Ben from Akwaaba Music, who posted up a fantastic collection of Angolan 7″ record sleeves a few months back, I thought I’d share a few of my better-looking finds from the record shops (and junk shops) of São Paulo. Check out the rest here.
April 13, 2010
Boogie Brazil
Another nice find from Charlie over at Look on the nice side. Eternal love to anyone who puts me on to a copy of this on vinyl.
March 10, 2010
City of Walls
“The increase in violent crime in São Paulo since the mid-1980s generated fear and a series of new strategies of protection and reaction, of which the building of walls is the most emblematic. Both symbolically and materially, these strategies operate by marking differences, imposing partitions and distances, building walls, multiplying rules of avoidance and exclusion, [...]
March 6, 2010
Yellow, Blue and ‘Green’
According to The Guardian, Brazil (and a bunch of other countries) will play this summer’s World Cup in shirts made from 100% recycled material. It may be a bandwagon, but I can’t help feeling that the more huge, trendsetting companies like Nike jump on this bandwagon, the better.
February 26, 2010
Blonde beer
So this new TV ad for Devassa beer has been causing quite a stir in Brazil. It features Paris Hilton (apparently it’s their new blonde beer or something) who’s… well, she’s doing what she does. But government and women’s groups have moved to have it banned, apparently, on the grounds that beer advertising should not [...]
February 17, 2010
Nunca x Nike
Over on the Hypebeast they’ve just announced a new collaboration between Nike and the Brazilian street artist Nunca. There’s some crap on the website about how these designs connect “the people of the favelas to the sport they hold dear,” which doesn’t make sense for a bunch of reasons. But whatever. The pixação football shirt [...]
November 25, 2009
Beyoncé goes Forró?
You’ve heard the rumours. I’ve heard the rumours. We’ve all heard the rumours. But now it’s official: 2010 will finally see the release of Beyoncé’s long-awaited first foray into the world of forró music, I Am Maria Bonita. This one gots hit written all over it…
