The History of our World in 18 Minutes, David Christian TED Talk
What is so Special about the Human Brain? Suzana Herculano-Houzel TED Talk
TED.com has great videos, that’s why I recommend them. Click here for TED’s website.
Category Archives: Brazil
Qualquer coisa do país do Brasil.
Sir Lucas Freitas, Página de Fã
Sir Lucas Freitas on the Web
18-Year-Old Pianist from Rio de Janeiro Plays with Tomás Improta
Lucas plays with Rafa Pinta, Signo de Terra, September 2020
Lucas plays with Brenda Luce and João Perrusi, 12 August 2020
See Lucas (and another self-taught pianist from Rio, also named Lucas) featured on Brazil’s news, “Globo,” 12 April 2018
Lucas plays with singer Jade Baraldo – A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes on Spotify, released April 2018
See Rio 2017, Made by Hand on this site.
Macro Photography from Brazil
These photos are from a back yard in the state of Pará, Brasil. Zoom in!
A Fly Takes Flight in 11 Photos
Ants
Flowers, Etc.
Glauco Brasil
Glauco makes leather maps and designs. My mom bought a large map, so I picked it up at their house in Cabo Frio and had lunch with him and his wife. He also built his own house near the beach in Cabo Frio. You should buy a map from him just to hang out in Cabo Frio…
Where you can find him: the “Hippie Fair” every Sunday in Rio de Janeiro by the mêtro station General Osorio.
Meet Glauco in my video series, Rio 2017: Made by Hand
Click here for the Rio 2017: Made by Hand video series.
Emilia Castellan
Emilia Castellan has her own website with a gallery and more information.
Gilson Sacramento
Gilson’s paintings remind me of the California surf culture.
He is deaf, so we communicated by writing. As you can see he has many beautiful paintings.
One Week of Olympics
Thursday, 4th
Friday, 5th
Watched opening ceremony at Holland Heineken House. Olympics under way in good fashion. Brazilians breathe sigh of relief.
Saturday, 6th
Men’s Field Hockey with a group of five Irish girls who just arrived from a five-month tour of South America. Field hockey can remain a women’s sport in America as far as I’m concerned.
Sunday, 7th
Table tennis. Watched Brazilian hopeful, Hugo Calderano, win his match. Obviously the home favorite. Had given two extra tickets Brazilian couple in line, they got to see also before attending their boxing ticket. Watched Japan player beat Segun Toriola of Nigeria. Segun was clearly having more fun in his 4-2 loss than the other players. Crowd favorite. Turns out he’s the first African to compete in seven Olympic games. He debuted in Barcelona. He has never medalled. Brazilians take selfies with him after the game.
Basketball. Watched Pau Gasol (weak) have his game-tying shot swatted at the buzzer for a Croatia upset. Priceless.
Swimming. ~3 WRs, Brit dominated breaststroke, Katie Ledecky dominated 400 free, Michael Phelps wins gold with 4×100 relay. He’s medalled before.
Monday, 8th
Skipped super-early water polo tickets.
Watched two sessions of beach volleyball in awesome venue on Copacabana beach, including a Brazil match and two of USA. Final match was USA women beat China.
Tuesday, 9th
Learned that rugby sevens is a cool sport. Man sport. For men built like running fire hydrants. Japan won it’s first rugby match ever upsetting New Zealand. USA lost a heart-breaker. Took a selfie with Nate Ebner’s (NE Patriot from Dublin, OH) mom. Unfortunately Matthew McConaughey was there, but his Brazilian wife looks OK.
Rugby Sevens
Like a full-field wrestling match cross fumble pileup cross last-chance kickoff laterals. Literally 20 minutes for an entire game. How can that be? Because they’re wrestling and running at the same time and they play 2 or 3 games per day in tournaments.
Injury = power play. There was a guy laying on his back holding his face and kicking the ground with his foot. Once play stopped, they brought the meds out, but his own players weren’t even paying attention. It looked like they were gonna rope off the area and play around him.
Wednesday, 10th
My friend departed for the states the night before. Took the day off.
Most we paid for tickets:
Beach volleyball $60
Swimming $40. Yes, $40
Others less, as low as $13
Ouro Preto e Belo Horizonte
Fui a Belo Horizonte e Ouro Preto. Era muito legal! Tenho que voltar de novo e ver mais!
Boas Frases Portuguesas
Nunca é tarde para se aprender.
A esperança é a ultima que morre.
Um dia da caça, outro do caçador.
Nunca é tarde para ser feliz.
Em terra de cena, quem tem olho rei.
Devagar se vai ao longe.
Quem com ferro fere, com ferro será ferido.
Uma landro é o gato.
Onde há vida, há esperança.
O que guarda a sua boca e a sua língua guarda a sua alma das angústias.
Peço a Deus vida e saude para os meus inimigos, para que assistam de pé a minha vitoria.
Deus em mim é mais poderosa que qualquer coisa que eu posso enfrentar.
Orai e vigiai.
Buying 2016 Rio Olympics Tickets
If you weren’t actively planning your Rio 2016 Olympics trip in the spring of 2015, you must buy your tickets second-hand. I just spent several hours researching the process and here is what I found:
Options:
https://www.cosport.com/ is the official vendor for the US. They have been the vendor for the Olympics since Sydney 2000. The tickets are mostly sold out, but they do have some available. There was a lottery that started in spring of 2015 and ended in the summer of 2015.
E-Bay. Folks in the states are receiving their tickets this summer (2016) from the lottery and some are selling them on E-Bay. I do not believe that the tickets are attached to an individual and require ID. I am looking for more verification on this.
This doesn’t help much, but at least you can direct your search.
Informative Articles
Forbes: Rio 2016: How To Plan A Trip To The Next Summer Olympics (written May 2015)
Nick Huggin’s Travel Blog (written April 2015)
Scams to Avoid:
www.tickets4summergames.com/ appears to be a scam. I’m not chancing it. There are other scams out there. There is a reddit post about it here, as well as this BBC article.