yea it's my bias, i was thinking about Atlanta, Birmingham, Little Rock, Texas, even Jackson when just seeing the title.
You're no doubt joking but I was definitely thinking more globally when I saw the title of this thread, given the international flavor of My City Photos.
This is a terrific thread, hope to comment more when I have the time.
Well then my gf and I might show up this summer then (seriously). We’re looking to go somewhere cool. She doesn’t speak English though (let alone Portuguese) so she might veto it as a destination, hope not
Let me know. Muppet can attest this: São Paulo is very intimidating, by no means an obvious touristic city, so a local guide might help you not wasting time while making sense of the city. I guess Tokyo might be like that. For Rio, than it's ok: a very touristic and even inexperienced tourists will know what to do.
But São Paulo is definitely very cool and that's the biggest appeal any city could have. To me, it's the coolest place I've ever been. If you guys like this, you'll love São Paulo.
What an amazing tour of Sao Paulo, and how lucky to get a personal tour from Yuri! I am really fascinated by this city, as it's one I know very little about. Looks really incredible and multi-layered. Thanks for sharing your photos, Muppet!
Parque Ibirapueira is huge - a series of lakes, fountains, pavilions and cenotaphs where you can hire a bike and take several trips to know
if there are trees that eat people, it's gonna be the fig trees, that are the world's biggest parasite. They're rumoured to lug around at night and look into windows:
They also have a hollow core, where I saw one person make a home of sorts, out on a traffic island
Every surface is festooned in growth -this entire region is not to be confused with the Amazon thousands of miles north, but is the Atlantic Forest, a different biome that's made up of even more species in its multitudes - cloud forest that captures the morning vapour:
This building perforated the inside and outside, public and private, by continuing the pavement (the trademark Paulistano black and white) through open entrances and into its floors
At the same time it opened up halfway (quite deceptively) by losing its exterior skin, and becoming an open plan balcony
Other architectural greats, spotted round town:
This believe it or not is actually a postwar classic, despite looking contemporary
Another fine example of Brazilian architecture, with good height. Oh and there's a building behind him that's quite nice.
Brazilian nightclubs are epic -they also do a thing on stage where the crowd does specific dances for Brazilian beats -those who know it get up there, and it looks pretty sorted the way it's so complicated yet they all go at it in unison. Entire new genres of music I'd never heard of.
More beautiful pics! It's so nice to revive all those moments!
And you manage to see monkeys (!!!) in São Paulo, at Ibirapuera Park (!!!). I was so skeptical about your enthusiasm and you did it!
P.S.1. Brazilian architecture with good height. Yes, it's indeed tall!
P.S.2. Great shot at Minhocão (elevated highway closed for cars on weekends and weekdays on evenings). It's probably on the most unique urban places on Earth.
P.S.3. São Paulo LGBT nightlife. It's really the best. Endless.
P.S.4. São Paulo might be perceived as the most grey city, but there are plenty of tree lined streets where tree canopy completely cover entire neighbours.
Urban legend has it that there's plenty of helipads on the roofs of buildings over there, so better-off people have their helicopters taxiing to avoid traffic jam.
That sounds like a cool way of transit. I could do that.
But I can't see it in your pics. That's for the rich exclusively anyway. And that would be pretty inefficient or unsafe if everybody did the same, at least for now.
Urban legend has it that there's plenty of helipads on the roofs of buildings over there, so better-off people have their helicopters taxiing to avoid traffic jam.
That sounds like a cool way of transit. I could do that.
But I can't see it in your pics. That's for the rich exclusively anyway. And that would be pretty inefficient or unsafe if everybody did the same, at least for now.
São Paulo was known for having, by far, the largest helicopter fleet in the world. For some reason, they're not as common as they were 10-20 years ago. It's hardly the day I don't see an helicopter but definitely there are much much less these days.
I definitely saw loads of choppers, more than I've ever seen in my life, though I was also told there were less than before -and that's saying a lot as London has quite a few -air ambulances, police, news crews, private, royal and all the military bases. My first day, while having a meal one sounded like it was landing somewhere above us, and everyone had to stop conversation and look bored for 5 mins, it was completely normalised. You can spot them more or less every time you're on a viewpoint.
There are also lots of low flying planes to the nearby airport (hence SP's height restrictions), often intersecting below the skyline. It makes for great shots as if they're flying between buildings (except that the iphone shrinks the size of the plane to look much further away).
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