Last year when we introduced you to Brazilian fashion website Gema, we had no idea how much they would grow in so little time. Gema's own Jose Camarano, a stylist, in partnership with two guys from the Marajoara beachwear brand…
Continue Reading →Sooner or later, as time has told, many graphic designers and street artists make the bounce to designing apparel. With rock stars, the two creative outlets aren't always yin and yang "” like, imagine the potential disaster of Iggy Pop…
Continue Reading →A few years after its groundbreaking, the ace-looking Singapore Flyer has finally opened to vertigo challengers this week and I'm betting that Josh will be the lucky first among us here to ride it. A ferris wheel that wins the…
Continue Reading →As I'm writing this, 3,000 nerds "” and I say that in only the most complimentary way, naturally "” are having the best geek-out party ever in Sao Paulo's equivalent of Central Park, Parque Ibirapuera. Campus Party, a marathon digital…
Continue Reading →As a designer moonlighting as an electronic music DJ for various nightclubs around Sao Paulo, Rodrigo Braga has the talent to marry the two better than anyone else I've come across -- regardless of the cliche that combination would normally…
Continue Reading →Because my bladder's the size of a pea, I get to know a lot of bathrooms on an intimate basis. But besides learning the rough way about the fine nuances of different types of toilet paper here in Sao Paulo,…
Continue Reading →A super-duper music geek friend just linked me to Anthology Recordings, the first digital reissue label which, within 5 minutes, already had me tuned in to rarities I never knew even existed. Fabulous '60s Thai go-go girl band? Check. Compelling,…
Continue Reading →Acrylic forms can go the way of tacky or tasteful "” aren't you sick of acrylic candle holders yet? "” but if they're crafted by Sao Paulo designers Nada Se Leva, count on the latter busting through the mediocre. This…
Continue Reading →I love this desk by Carlos Motta, which looks like it's been partially drilled into the floor. It's not one of his newer works, but it's a sample of the expansive and non-stop imagination that this Brazilian furniture crafter and…
Continue Reading →Subjects like clogged nasal passages, STDs and ingrown toenails aren't exactly topics you can break bread over. Mold, then, without having to explain, is a no-no ice breaker. For example, mold jokes just don't fly. Television programs used to love…
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