Brazilian environmental activists 50 Graus have struck again, in the same place they hit last year when they left ice penguins to melt under the sweltering sun in the Sao Paulo's biggest park. For "Labyrinth," they set up a maze…
Continue Reading →Wow. One of our favorite indie art publishers Rojo (as in Rojo Magazine, yo) just released a hot lil' set of posters for 200 first-comers. The 10 posters from MWM, Bruno 9li, Neasden Control Centre, Evgeny Kiselev, Catalina Estrada, Dalek,…
Continue Reading →It's clearly America week, so you can be darn proud of it (again) wherever you are in the world. Sao Paulo's Choque Cultural kicked off an incredible Americana exhibit this weekend featuring some precious legendary names through their ever-growing partnership…
Continue Reading →You don't need an accountant to tell you you're going to have to cut back even more on your burger trips if you're trying to save up for that new computer. But for some of us finances might as well…
Continue Reading →It took me about 10 never-ending minutes to figure out how the heck I should tackle this post. The subject's too multidimensional, I thought, so I should divide the ideas into separate ones -- but alas, they'd lose their connection.…
Continue Reading →Brazilian illustrator Rafael Silveira's new book Pop Surreal, featuring his sweet surrealism-inspired artwork, is out now. Produced in limited edition through national publisher Arte & Letra, each copy comes in a special box that looks like an LP cover and…
Continue Reading →It's good that Maikon Nery's, aka Ultra Grafismo, work speaks for itself. He's linked everywhere on Google, but I could only find one interview in Portuguese about this terrific graphic designer and illustrator, and he definitely deserves more write-ups. I…
Continue Reading →The first-ever David Choe-designed toy, Choegal, is finally available for sale at $45 a pop, but there are only 1,000 of these precious hand-painted dolls available. Besides movable appendages and mechanical parts, the all-wood Choegal features a rotating head with…
Continue Reading →We want to turn you on to Brazil's Alessandro Von Victor. Yeah, really, that kind of turned on. You see, Von Victor is an erotic-pop artist of the hot rod and tattoo school. The picture above is the type of…
Continue Reading →The photo above is of the customizing area at Brazil's first Nike Sportswear store, which opened on Saturday here in Sao Paulo to an excited crowd. No doubt they were there in part to see super-special guest of honor and…
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