August 25, 2009

we are lucky, raining most of the day, helps a lot in this dry season

"spider web" of wires

another visual pollution in Cuiabá

typical in Cuiabá, in most of the countries, the cell phone antenas have to be disguised, here in Brazil, there is no law against the visual pollution

arquitecture and history in Cuiaba

this building was constructed in 1924, Art Nuveau style, ten years after it ended in Europe, named Aurea (in English it means Golden Proportion (or Divine Proportions) - reinvented invented in Renaissance, but its origins can be traced into Ancient Greece, even ACROPOLIS includes some elements of "Divine Proportions"), which was also a name of the law ending the slavery in Brazil, signed on May 13, 1888

more of Cuiabá reality

a girl on the sidewalk

ice cream vendor in Cuiabá

this man walks more than 8 hours per day to sell ice cream

the street vendors in Cuiabá

one selling fruits other hammocks

polluted skies

visual pollution of course, it is a curse and no way to escape them

typical little bar in Cuiabá

the concrete pole on the sidewalk is a very commonly used for electric wires, cable TV and telefone companies

abandoned arquitecture - is it a national Heritage?

those are buidings in downtown core, people buy abandoned property to turn them into parking lots, governments stops demolition and orders reconstruction, thing is, there is no value in reconstructed and abandoned homes, parking lot is a better idea

accident on the avenue

Sunday afternoon and almost no traffic, yet carelessness of the Cuiabá drivers knows no limits

arquitecture in Cuiabá

one word - CHAOS - mixture of styles and no styles

the sidewalks of Cuiabá

not a pretty site and I did not chose the poor part of this city, it's all over the same, no maintenance, garbage and construction material thrown everywhere, holes, real dacadence

August 20- it's raining

RH has gone up from 10 to 80%

hell continues

40 degrees, dust, smog from trush and bush burning,

3 years

I think that shows unough patience

40 yoars of decadence

it is obvious that human race has been downhill in last 40 years

single digit IQ

naver been before surrounded by so many people with single digit IQ.

what's next?

?

a simple humidifier

two large fluffy towels soaked with water and placed strategically within the air flow in the apartment.

today is 40

hot and dry, drier than a desert (or hell), lots of dust, gets everywhere and makes the breathing difficult - that's Cuiabá on August 16, 2009

eating the nut

ferrets playing with white rat

toucan

heron with fish

otter with fish

big ears