in an effort to catalog my record collection, i’ll start posting my recent additions to this blog. starting with the now kinda rare “Carlos, Erasmo…” record from 1971.
a rock album that also dabs with samba and brazilian popular music, it’s a great record from Erasmo, and now that one of its tracks is the main song for the movie “Ainda Estou Aqui” (“I’m Still Here”), this record vanished from record stores shelves in 2025.
Highlights:
rejected studies for a corporate podcast identity done in 2022. i don’t think it was ever presented to the client, but i still like this little fella.
we went to Rio this past weekend, and got to visit the Museu do Amanhã (“tomorrow’s museum”). the museum is located right at the city center, close to its port area. the building design (by spanish architect Santiago Calatrava) is incredible, and great for pictures.
the museum content itself is kinda meh… lots of reading and not a lot of beautiful or interesting things to look at. it touches on important subjects like sustainability, the environment and the future of humanity, but it’s bit dooming and not very hopeful.
still, i believe its worth the trip, specially if you want to know other parts of downtown Rio, and get some nice architecture pictures!
this weekend marked the anniversary of são paulo, the city we chose to call home. so here are a few pictures i’ve taken over the almost five years of living here. i love the downtown area and its monumental eclectic architecture.
i have always been an internet enthusiast. i have early memories of getting online in my friend’s house and joining shady chat rooms and forums. we were probably too young for that, but made friends along the way.
then in 2003, when blogspot was becoming huge deal, i learned how to craft my own templates and started participating in a community of like minded kids that were creating things and sharing them semi anonymously on the internet. that experience was probably what led me to design school years later.
the internet changed a lot since then. blogging kinda died, and then became facebook, twitter, instagram and others. at first they seemed like better spaces for kind of the same thing as blogging, sharing stuff with your friends in a much more convenient and easy to use interface.
the problem for me, an introvert, is that that was all overly intertwined with my reality. it became less about sharing what you created and more about how cool your life was. i felt like i lost a place to be that kind of semi anonymous online avatar, because now i was under the eyes of real life people, so i basically stopped sharing anything.
but i once again long for a place on the web to call my own. to share the stuff i create, pictures i take, the food i eat or the music i listen to. and to talk about all the cool things i come across, away from the lenses of social media. i’m also excited about exercising my writing chops again, both in english and portuguese.
see you next time!
eusoujoao 