Showing posts with label brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brazil. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2012

Anyone for German folk dancing?

Every end of May an area of the city named Brooklin celebrates the German spring by holding MaiFest (May Festival). Thanks to a large population of German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese immigrants, one thing that this city can't be criticised for is cultural diversity, as proven by the somewhat unusual novelty of coming across traditional German folk dancing in the streets of São Paulo. 




Saturday, May 26, 2012

Throw Some Light




For man-made high-rise majesty, Avenida Paulista offers the best visual treat by day. By night however, it allows you to stroke the lights around a photo frame like the paint can of a graffiti artist. Indeed, this shot was taken just above the "Jose Robert Fanganiello Melhem" tunnel, a great example of one of the city's authorized graffiti zones. (click on image to enlarge)