We live
in a wonderful age, kids. You can go online and plug into interesting
cultural happenings all over the world. Can't make it to New Orleans
or Rio? No problema! You can catch Mardi Gras and Carnival on the
interwebs.
You can
find longer videos on the YouTube channels, Carnaval Completo and
Carnaval Carioca. But meanwhile, here are some shorter shots . . .
Let
start in New Orleans, where they've got tradition:
And King
Kong was manifested:
But,
mostly people were happy:
Down in
Rio, there was an Occupy Carnival movement. If you look close, you
can see anti-government activists among the topless dancers:
Meanwhile,
Planet Sambadrome came to glorious life:
And the
samba schools taught some lessons in postcolonial, Afrofuturistic,
alternate historic, ecstatic utopianism:
These
muses should inspire you:
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