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Polish man has holiday inside Sao Paulo airport
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 12 July 2011
Robert Wladyslaw Parzelski took a flight from London to Sao Paulo. Upon arriving he set-up camp on a concrete bench. It would be 18 days before he left. This story, which appeared in The Guardian last week, is really interesting for a number of reasons. One, because it definitely has clear echoes of Steven Spielberg’s [...]
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The Music Scene in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 9 May 2011
It’s now been a couple of months since I got back from Sao Paulo but I am still working on material from my time there, and this has manifested itself in a number of ways. The most exciting result from my time in Sao Paulo is the article I wrote for The Wire, which has [...]
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Discovering Sao Paulo’s music scene on the web
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 27 February 2011
I recently found a few social media sites on the web which reflected parts of the Sao Paulo music scene that I had not really encountered, mainly because they revolve around electronic music, but I thought I would share them here, as they do also show how people are trying to design different kinds of [...]
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Hostels and recommendations in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 24 February 2011
My opinion of Sao Paulo has changed dramatically. The first time I came here I stayed for two days, felt my lungs, head and life clog up and quickly got the hell out. I wasn’t ready for the city. When my passion for Brazilian music started to take full hold I knew this was the [...]
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Relaxing in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 23 February 2011
These guys have worked it out. On top of the Coban building is the place to take a break from the mayhem. Just look at ‘em: Don’t they look content? Apparently they do this once a month, it enables them to get a bit closer to the streets of Sao Paulo. Presumably they tried sitting [...]
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Sao Paulo = Hell de Janeiro x 10
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 22 February 2011
My friend Fabiola often refers to Rio as Hell De Janeiro, which seems a little unfair because it is pretty much the best place ever. And, aside from that, there are places where hell seems a lot more apt, and Sao Paulo is one of them. Or at least it is between the hours of [...]
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Sao Paulo in Numbers
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 22 February 2011
Numbers are great. Well for certain things anyway. Try telling someone that 3 is a better number than 2 and you’ll get in a whole heap of trouble though. But that’s another story really. These are a few numbers about Sao Paulo, taken from a Brazilian blog. I figured they may help paint a picture. [...]
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Free things to do in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 21 February 2011
Cultura Grátis em São Paulo is my kind of site; a regularly-updated selection of free things to do in Sao Paulo. It may be in Portuguese but it is still extremely useful, with plenty of free music, film showing and art exhibitions to choose from. If you’re in Sao Paulo this is definitely worth checking [...]
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Skipping straight through to Monday morning
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 14 February 2011
Something had to give. I’d been on my best behaviour since arriving in Brazil, regularly in bed by midnight and getting up at 7.30 in the morning. My excitement in Brazil has been made up almost entirely of my current obsessions with Brazilian music, namely bands like M. Takara 3, Tulipa Ruiz, Lulina and Karina [...]
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Photos of Vila Mariana in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 14 February 2011
The newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo published some amazing photos of Sao Paulo a few weeks ago to celebrate 457 years of the city (why they are celebrating 457 years is anyone’s guess!) You should check out the article to view all of them, but I thought I would just share those of Vila [...]
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A taste of the music scene in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 12 February 2011
So, after two failed attempts at arriving at film premiere-style arrangements it seems that music really is my thing. The last three nights have heralded three concerts, all of which I actually managed to find and found before they had finished. First up was the double bill of Lulina and Dudu Tsuda. Dudu was a [...]
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Early days and early Jimmys in Sao Paulo
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 9 February 2011
It seems it only takes a day to Jimmy. After getting a message on my StumbleUpon account (I didn’t even know I had one) from a Brazilian fellow who was a big fan of Sounds and Colours I followed up his interest to discover that he was an Assistant Director of a film soon to [...]
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Back in Brazil
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 8 February 2011
Over 9,000km, 11 hours in the air, a series of yellow, brown and grey things disguised as food, one rubbish rom com, an equally rubbish horse racing adventure starring John Malkovich, an hour on the bus, two trips on the Metro, and I’m in the Oca Hostel in Sao Paulo, i.e. I’m back in Brazil. [...]
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Gambiarra – Sao Paulo’s trend of fashioning art out of waste
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 28 October 2010
Very interesting new article on SFMOMA by Darrin Alfred, looking at the Campana brothers, two artists practicising the Brazilian art of transforming waste items into something useful, practical or simply aesthetic, as Darrin explains: In Brazil, the Portuguese expression gambiarra is applied to the peculiarly inventive approach to problem solving that is ubiquitous throughout São [...]
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Sao Paulo – Beneath the Concrete Jungle
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 25 September 2010
Well, there’s nothing like making an entrance and we arrived into Sao Paulo amid torrential rain, thunder and lightening. The drive in to Jardins from the airport was slightly uninspiring. Huge traffic jams and the appearance of Sao Paulo as being an extensive concrete jungle. We were staying at the 3Dogs hostel, a place that appealed [...]
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London and New York
Blog: The Indie Travel Podcast - 29 June 2010
It's been an awesome week - three continents' worth!
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Video: 48 Hours in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Blog: GoBackpacking - 6 February 2010
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 21 August 2009
The journey from Russia to South America was a long and very smelly one.
