68 tongues, 68 hearts.

The most beautiful thing to be found all week. 68 tongues, 68 hearts - an animated project aimed at preserving and sharing the indigenous languages of Mexico, all 68 of them.

Unfortunately, for us, the subtitles are only in Spanish but that leaves your ears open to hear the language and your eyes free to lap up the illustrations. Enjoy!

James Cotton

He's been dealing with the devil and it sounds pretty darn good.

Unravel.

It's been a while blog, but I've finally stumbled upon something worth sharing. More soon one hopes.

Unravel is a short documentry (just 14 minutes of your time) about the women and men who recycle the clothes thrown away from the West deep in India's industrial interior. The women talk about how it must be so expensive to wash clothes in the West, otherwise there is no explanation for throwing out clothes worn once of twice. It definitely got me thinking. I hope it gets you too!

Find the video here.

So many dollars

So many dollars needed to buy these delights.

431 and 294. In my next life.

Life on mars

It's tough out there.
Seu Jorge / Life on Mars

This beauty.

On Rioetc. So great.

Tucum and the pulseira

Here in Rio de Janeiro, up on the hill of Santa Teresa there is a tiny store called Tucum that stocks all kinds of brilliant products, most of which is designed and produced by the indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

One of my favourite products from this wee shop is the pulseira, a kind of thick bead bracelet with no stretch.

Here is how to wear it.

Pulseiras / Tucum . Video / HULA

This ol' lady of mine.

It's hard to be so far from you!

Old new Backstreet.

Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox. Basically any popular song jazzed up. What's not to like?



It's been so long. But I'm still here!

Palitos idol.

This wonderful, wonderful man.

Pompon Cakes. Thanks Kinfolk.

Palitos.

Last summer, if you remember this post, I started to sell popsicles here on the beach in Rio. It was a fun experiment and a success I think! So this summer I'm trying to rev it up and go a little more professional.

Here is the newly updated fb page & a newly installed instagram if you want to follow the Palitos adventure.

News flavours include 'avocado & lime' and 'strawberry banana yoghurt'. Tomorrow (weather permitting) will be the first day on the street and we are going to try hang on the side of an existing street market (food and vege one). Let's see how it goes.

Connection or disconnection.

Something I often think about wrapped up so nicely in this rap.. is that a rap?



Give people your love don't give them your like.

Innercity bees

Gotta help dem bees!

Recycled in the rain.

Oh, how I'd love to wear this jacket. Recycled fabric raincoats, yes please! Made by Mushama & Me and now being stocked at a new place in Auckland I cannot wait to visit upon my return, Sew Love Tea Do.

Made from recycled cotton fabrics such as sheets, curtains, or duvets, and coated with PVC, creating a unique and waterproof fabric.

Ballin'

So nice to see this ridiculousness so far from home. Thanks AirNZ.

Pans dead.

He's Peter Pan, all right, Captain. He's just been away from Neverland so long, his mind's been junk-tified. He's forgotten everything.

The world says goodbye to a goodie.

Blues and whites.

Lucas Grogan has me dreaming of the great Med all the time. His work is so great!

All photos pinched from Design Files.

Kenko Kitchen

Kenko Kitchen has a special place in my heart. Every thing is so god dam picture perfect - in the best kind of way. I cannot wait to test this Ginger & Date Granola. Here in Brazil] they call it 'granola' like the Americans too, I much prefer muesli. I cannot wait to test this muesli.

Barack.

Singing 'Fancy'. Lols.

Making Maracana.

Here is Brazil, Maracanã (the football stadium here in Rio de Janeiro) is often referred to as a 'temple'. I guess it's like Eden Park for rugby in New Zealand but Brazilian are NUTS about football. Come to think of it we are pretty nuts about rugby (some of us) but these guys take it to a new level.

Anyhoo- myself and the folks I work with (Terravixta - english link) have decided to re-build the legend! Short history goes like this- Maracanã was once the biggest stadiums in the world, over time it was downsized and downsized and downsized again and most recently remodeled (thanks World Cup). The people here got pretty upset about. Legend lost they said.

So, we are rebuilding it in a mini wooden form! And we are doing a crowd funding to help get the thing off the ground. Not knowing if anyone even remotely interested in football reads this blog I thought I'd post it here because hey-ho why not!

Our crowdfunding (in portuguese unfortunately). And some shots of the beauty below, there's a piece of wood that bends for goodness sake.