Let's Colour Project

Here is a nice community video project called the "Let's Colour" project. The video was shot for four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India by the award winning director Adam Berg. I enjoy inspirational videos like this. Man, that must have been an amazing amount of paint for sure!

Video found here.

Other images can be found here.

Travel Inspiration #11

I just love this photo. I'm pretty sure I gasped when I scrolled past it on my window. Shot in Brazil I believe. I would love just to drop by this location just to take a few snapshots. Not sure, but I bet I have something for those banners. ;-)

Photo via Jordan Ferney at Oh Happy Day.

Rio Fashion Shoot

Warm, sunny, featherlight photography is really starting to grow on me in the past year. Check out this Rio de Janeiro fashion shoot from The Sartorialist. The photo on the left is going to be locked away in my dream book; enjoying life, walking down the beach with my dog and of course wearing a cut outfit.

Picasso In Brazil

For the second time in the last 6 months Picasso prints have been stolen and let free into the streets of Sao Paulo. The ones stolen this time were "The Painter and the Model" from 1963 and "Minotaur, Drinker and Women" from 1933, according to a statement from the Sao Paulo Secretary of State for Culture, which oversees the museum. About noon, three armed men paid the $2.45 entrance fee and immediately went to the second-floor gallery where the works were being exhibited, bypassing more valuable pieces, authorities said. The value of these prints were $612,000.

"This indicates to us that they probably received an order" to take those specific works, said Youssef Abou Chain, head of Sao Paulo's organized crime unit. The robbery took about 10 minutes and the museum was nearly empty at the time. The assailants took the pieces -- frames and all -- out of the museum in two bags. The institution has no metal detectors.

Forget the vendor art on the streets of Sao Paulo, I'm paying a visit to that museum. ;-)

Carnaval Party

Last month my work had a Carnaval themed party and I was on the planning committee. I had an itch to paint something (and I was inspired by a painting I saw on the net) so I ended up creating this for the event poster and invites. I'm working on uploading a large image for viewing but I'm always faced with a big ERROR pop up window. The whole idea of the party was about giving into temptation for one last night before Lent. So the top portion is a Brazil landscape. Below is of course the female figure with Portuguese wording about temptation as the design on her suite. To the right is an old hotel like sign pointing down to hell with the name of the party destination on it. The additional stuff adds to the scenery of Brazil and party aka beads and frills. I've heard others ideas of what it all means, so I guess it's up to the viewer really! But thats what was going through my head at the time. Enjoy!

It started with me dreaming
and getting bored one night and surfing the web on whats out there to possibly go see. It was mainly to fill my thoughts so that my mind can wonder and dream of the places I wish I could go to. Every couple of days while I was sitting at work I'd say to myself "just go somewhere, you will be much happier if you did". So I put my foot down and made myself just pick a place and just do it.

It was between Brazil and Peru. I wanted to go to Brazil and see the large statue of Jesus (Christ the Redeemer) or go to Peru and see Machu Picchu and the Nazca Lines. Peru seemed much easier to get into the country and not have to deal with getting visas and all that jazz. So that made my decision.

I grabbed my friend Ben (who had mentioned to me that he had time and money to travel) and made him go with me. I knew he wouldn't say no. While searching for a travel agency, my eye was caught by a nicely design website. http://www.peruforless.com/ If it's designed nice it has got to be a good one. Not really, but I won't lie, that does cross my mind. Heck I'm a graphic designer and work at an Ad Agency, give me a break. And well, their good sense of design won a happy client.