Streets of São Paulo
A walk around the streets of São Paulo today and exploration of the excellent subway aka metro. The grafitti is mostly awful, especially on high abandoned and non abandoned buildings where it's just some stupid letters defacing every available space. Some grafitti however, is quite striking in it's use of color especially.
Besides the grafitti and the excellent metro system, I noticed a very visible police presence everywhere and an alarming amount of homeless people in any and every corner. Entire groups of people complete with mattresses and even kids. And, as in most non-English speaking countries, there are always funny signs on storefronts and elsewhere.
Enjoy a few of my São Paulo shots.
The Gazzette building on Paulista - partial shot of their stylized façade
Very Miami this building - Av Paulista
Av Paulista
Mini soccer balls on the street
Damien returns! And that's probably a politician in the middle
Missing some Beatles
Where Steven's other job is.
Citibank has their logo on this stand-out building
A classic colonial on Paulista, abandoned and covered in graffiti
Subway to Praça da Republica
Praça da Republica - a sad spectacle of a park with fallen trees, homeless everywhere and prostitutes
Had some fresh OJ here
Here is the theater, and on the left you can see the graffiti along the entire wall of a building. This is everywhere
The theater with the Jetsons telephone booths that I haven't seen anyone use
Subway mural
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