I received today this big UPS package containing 2 issues of Rojo Magazine I won on Twitter. It features many cool stuff, including some of Bruno 9li's new artworks. Twitter giveaways are great. Thanks Rojo.

Now I'm with my fingers crossed to win this one (bellow) from Arkitip, since it's one of the magazines I most admire, and I never saw one in person! Anyway, it's been an inspiration for our future special editions from Vista magazine, with lots of collectibles.

A few days ago I've wrote about +Apto show, a group exhibition featuring the artists Mateus Grimm, Trampo and Diogenes DSM. You can read it and see pictures here.

The text finishes saying that the three artists are working on another project called Mural Evolutivo, inside the same place, a huge science and technologies museum, which is featuring a whole year exhibition about Darwin. "Luis Flavio aka Trampo and Mateus Grimm, the most prolific and known artists working with street and skateboard related art in the south of Brazil, are also collaborating with the up-and-comer Diogenes DSM on a mural inside the museum." It's a collaborative painting that changes every month, painted by one of the artists, going on for eight months and that illustrates the voyage of Charles Darwin around the world, onboard the ship HMS Beagle, and his mental quest to solve the Evolution riddle.

Differently from +Apto, that deals with introspective thoughts from the artists about the Evolution theme, this mural is more a way of telling a story, using the very characteristic traces and lines from each artist. Besides being a way to include art on a science museum, the project offers to the public many thoughts about the issue, as the way the living beings change and the way they adapt to survive in different situations.

Today I went to my friends Damn Laser Vampires gig. It was insane as usual. But, this time the show was at a train station. The funny thing is that they always play a song called Demolicion, from LOS SAICOS, a band from Peru in the early 60's. People say that this song was the first "punk song" ever made. And it talks about destroying a train station. It was crazy to see all that passengers going home while a bunch of insane youngsters were screaming "demolir, demolir!"

"Damn Laser Vampires is a post-punk trio that brings elements such as polka, psychobilly, and new wave into a strange ground filled with high energy performances, menacing vocals, and an otherworldly ability to mystify and entertain. Traditional punk receives a dose of Transylvanian attitude as Damn Laser Vampires yell, scream, and howl through songs of God, The Devil, sex, drugs, alcohol, and self-doubt. Born in 2005 in the cold Porto Alegre city, south of Brazil, they made their debut with the independent EP The Devil Is a Preacher , which immediately caught the attention of alternative media and brought a new color to the local underground musical scene. In their first two years of life, the southern Vampires have printed a trademark on the Brazilian alternative universe." (From their label website) And all the 3 members are quite good illustrators and comic book makers.

Fondation Cartier made available at Dailymotion a 11-minutes video with excerpts from "Pixo", a documentary about Brazilian pixação. The video is in Portuguese with French subtitles, but there are a lot of impressive scenes, including the attack of Belas Artes School, that makes the viewing worth even for only-English speakers. I can't wait to see the whole movie! (I think the old dailymotion link was not working, so I updated it)

http://www.dailymotion.com/fr/featured/video/x9sdzs_pixo-un-film-de-joao-weiner-et-robe_creation?pagination=1:15

(artwork: Herbert Baglione and Sesper)

The good part of having a blog is that I don't need to care if what I'm posting is new and I can part with you  all the old and never-seen material and files I have on my computer. And, believe me, I have a lot of cool stuff here :)

This post is an example. Here are some pictures from the opening of "Contra o Verso" exhibition, in São Paulo.