'SHE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT THOUGH..'

In the usual laid-back, non-chalant manner, me, sag and a couple of guys rolled up to South Bank later than the allocated brick-giving-out time haha! This was much to my disgust when 'bitch-ass women' - who had no idea what the project was about but got caught up in the brick heaven hype - were seen walking the streets of south London with Project Morrinho bricks poking from their hand bags. To add to the disgust of casual passers-by making haste with all the fly, designed bricks, we also missed the free 'Brazil Festival' re-usable bag give away. To a group of young, ethnic London men, seeing snobbish yuppy types sipping on their lattes and over-priced orange juices whilst clutching on to their man-bags and now 'Brazil Festival' bags, was pretty annoying. We contemplated going on the rampage and snatching everything in sight with the 'Brazil Festival' emblem on it. This included, bags, deck chairs and a whole host of nailed-to-the-ground things. However after this quick rush of blood we simply picked up a couple bin bags, salvaged a few bricks from destruction and made our way downstairs to see what entertainment lay in wait on the bank of the Thames. With two of us having bin bags slung over our shoulders....yes we did looked like tramps.

I forgot my camera this day. One of my boys took a few snaps on his blackberry but until I can retrieve those you'll just have to put up with these below. I recently redecorated my room and while I was hoping to pile a mass of Favela bricks in one corner, the measly few we managed to take are currently taking up the corner of my desk instead. Still working on the positioning.


And yes we did swipe that piece of astro turf also.

Peesh.

THE BRASIL FESTIVAL SOUTH BANK....

Well as with the way most things are going on this blog, I was supposed to post about this ages ago. A friend and I visited South Bank to see what the haps was before I ventured to North Africa, therefore what has stopped me from uploading these pics over the past month is any body's guess.
I missed most of the events included in the Brazil Festival due to being away for that month but fortunately I was still able to witness the progress of this little work of art. If coloured bricks mounted on sand seems a little confusing to you then allow me to explain. Well actually lets allow the good people at Project Morrinho, who run the making of these vibrant installations, to explain:

"Project Morrinho is a social and cultural project based out of the Pereira da Silva favela in the wealthy Southern Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Our aim is to bring positive change to our local community, as well as challenge the popular perception of Brazil’s favelas. The belief that favelas are merely dominated by drug trafficking and violence is not all encompassing. Through our work within Brazil and abroad, it is our hope to improved popular perception of all favelas."

For more info on the project be sure to hit up their site HERE.

The project it's self is usually encourages the involvement of local Favela residents. Therefore for this special London edition not only were kids from the Favelas of Rio De Janeiro involved but also children from an estate in Lambeth South London. It may seem strange at first, the fact that third world bricks (haha sorry I call orange bricks with 4 or 6 square wholes in 'third world bricks,' they're stacked up everywhere in developing Tunisia and not to my surprise i saw them all over south America too) are crakced and coloured in order to create something that vaguely resembles a Favela. Though for anyone who's actually seen a Favela, these huge models do bear an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. Here's a couple of shots of past projects:

Me and Sag headed down to check out the action way before a certain magazine reported on this. Nah I'm playing, Jungle Drums is one of my favourite magazines, check it out for all-round dope info on all that's Brasilian in London. Here's a few flicks of our day checking out the progress...

Sag can read.

At the climax of all this brick-laying there was to be a brick-giving-away bonanza on September 5th. Peep what happened there in the next post.

SHA-DAMN...

My bad on the lack of posting of late. I've been fairly busy but if I'm being honest, not so busy that I couldn't have found time to drop some post material. Weird thing is, I've actually been sitting down and writing a lot of things to put up here, the time has just never emerged to actually put finger to keyboard.

For the few that actually check this blog every other day or so. My bad, descuple, desole, triste and any other language I missed out.

If not good, big, if not big, alot of things on the way tomorrow.

Peace King.