Sao Paulo's premier toy art store Plastik, whose second-floor exhibit space I really love and have written about before, has gone virtual with a splendidly complete online shop stocked with the models that collectors in the most remote parts of…
Continue Reading →Imagine my surprise when I was getting recently reacquainted with my stomping grounds in Jardins in Sao Paulo and came across the new Volcom store "” the brand's first Latin American flagship "” sitting a little awkwardly among its Rodeo…
Continue Reading →We maintain around here that (most) best things in life are preceded by the word "free", beer being one of those things. Free Beer is actually the name of the concept behind Danish art collective Superflex's exhibit at Sao Paulo's…
Continue Reading →Last weekend at Mercado Mundo Mix, a market-slash-fair that brings together up-and-coming stores and designers from the underground fashion world mostly in Sao Paulo, I got egged into trying a new super-carbonated and fizzy shot of vodka called Orloff Gas,…
Continue Reading →When Alexander Graham Bell invented a simple device called the telephone, he would have never thunk it that combined with modern technology the phone has since become a necessary part of life that these days extends further than a convenient…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo's in the blissful midst of a bona fide sneaker craze. Last week we brought news about Maze's new kicks store in one of the world's most populated cities, but located within the same tony Jardins area is Doc…
Continue Reading →Publishing is a little less entry-friendly in Brazil, I've observed. You can already have a decent amount of money from other sources so costs become no object, get picked up by only a handful of publishers or rather approach things…
Continue Reading →I haven't dove into the housing market yet, but having friends who have done it, they tell me the quest for the perfect place frustrating and the "perfect place" fairly elusive. Some have ended up buying lofts for the endless…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo's the shiz-nit when it comes to the swarm of talented graffiti artists living and producing there, and along with that scene comes a teeming skate world that keeps gaining ground. The other day while stopping to eat at…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo artist Bruno Dicolla's illustrations have an immediately charming disposition, despite how oddball their subjects are portrayed, like one of a shark rising out of an ice-cream colored sea or another of a bear-mermaid exulting about something rad s/he…
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