shapeshifters tag feed: salvador

Personage or personality?

may — wed, 05 apr 2006 09:54:22 -0200

When we see it for the first time soon restores the great doubt.
He walks for the streets of the historical center of Salvador, Bahia (Brasil) with its wild suits in a "non sense" attitude for majority of the people whom they do not know of its history, of its objective. The most of people think: he is an exotic, eccentric or insane person! But in reallity is so diferent...
I am speaking of Jayme Fygura, an artist very known who is not understand.
To know more about it visits: http://www.pilula.com.br/fygura/

Public Phones in Salvador

Anne — mon, 03 apr 2006 20:27:22 -0200

During our Shapeshifters World Tour we had recently been visiting
the city of Salvador in Brazil. This is an observation I would like
to share with you here: In some parts of Salvador you can see phone
booths that look e.g. like coconut shells or drums. The city commissioned
an artist to design these phone booths. I wish we would have more of that
kind of thinking in Austria where every phone booth just looks the same.
And it made reminded me that every kind of object in a city landscape can
be a stage for local designers or artists.

Salvador da Bahia / Brazil

aliceramos — thu, 23 mar 2006 11:33:11 -0200

I live in a very cultural city in Brazil, Salvador from Bahia (state). If u want to know it better, try one of these site in a english version:

http://www.emtursa.ba.gov.br
(tourism from Salvador)

http://www.bahiatursa.ba.gov.br
(tourism from all Bahia)

http://www.bahia.com.br
(tourism from all Bahia)

These are just in Portugues:

http://www.sct.ba.gov.br
(Culture and tourism office)

http://www.funceb.ba.gov.br
(Cultural Foundation)

http://www.cultura.salvador.ba.gov.br
(Gregorio de Mattos Foundation)

http://www.aldeianago.com.br
(local site about culture)

http://www.salvadorconvention.com.br
(site about national and international conferences and events)

http://www.pms.ba.gov.br
(City hall from Salvador)

I hope u enjoy!