Aline Prado Globeleza 2012. Click to enlarge.

The Brazilian Carnival, an annual event celebrated all over Brazil, is as important to Brazilians as football. It is the most famous holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions. The country stops completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.

Every year a TV ad is produced that features a beautiful and almost naked young woman who dances across the screen to samba music. This year the model Aline Prado, 25, has been chosen to perform for the ad – watch her show on video below. Her modesty is maintained, just, by greasepaint and glitter. It took hours to apply the colorful coating before filming. (The link shows Aline Prado being made up, the text is in Portuguese.)

Would this ad appear on British TV? I doubt that very much, it would almost certainly be banned or heavily censored.

The Carnival – not just in Rio!

Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another. In the southeastern cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, huge organized parades are led by samba schools. Those official parades are meant to be watched by the public, while minor parades (“blocos”) allowing public participation can be found in other cities.

The northeastern cities of Salvador, Porto Seguro and Recife have organized groups parading through streets, and public interacts directly with them. This carnival is also influenced by African-Brazilian culture. It’s a six days party where crowds follow the trios elétricos through the city streets, dancing and singing. Also in northeast, Olinda carnival features unique characteristics, part influenced by Venice Carnival mixed with cultural depictions of local folklore.

Carnival Music

The typical genres of music of brazilian carnival are, in Rio de Janeiro (and Southeast Region in general): the samba-enredo, the samba de bloco, the samba de embalo and the marchinha; in Pernambuco and Bahia (and Northeast Region in general) the main genres are: the frevo, the maracatu, the samba-reggae and Axé music.

Much of the above article was cut and pasted from Wikipedia.

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Here’s what the style section of their online journal says about the case. “Sandy McMillin decided to take her bikini body to Eugene, Oregon’s big box store to pick up some sour cream, chips and coffee creamer in 90-degree heat. And she told KVAL News that a Walmart employee approached her only several minutes into her shopping trip and gave her two options: put on a shirt or get out.”

Sandy McMillin says she was escorted out of the store for showing too much skin. Walmart denies this but has apologised to her. Just what they said sorry for is not clear but maybe it was for selling her too many chips and cream.

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Naked Bike Ride Bristol - uncensored Click on image to enlarge. Full gallery below.

Parental guidance required, there is some nudity in this post.

I was visiting Bristol, a British city in the west of England, last weekend and bumped into the Bristol version of The Naked Bike Ride UK.

The Naked Bike Ride UK is a “peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture” says their web site. “A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic”, it adds.

It is the world’s biggest naked protest with over 50 cities and thousands of riders participating throughout the world. It is claimed that 3,000 joined the event in the UK in 2009.

The unique protests started on June 11 in 2010.

Event dates 2010:

• Manchester 11 June
• Southampton 11 June
• Cardiff 12 June
• Edinburgh 12 June
• London 12 June
• Brighton 13 June
• Bristol 13 June
• Sheffield 19 June
• York 19 June

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A very funny viral video for a product that can prove useful for girl in more ways than one.

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But my impression of Brazil’s position towards women is somewhat wrong. There is in Brazilian society a very high incidence of macho and chauvinistic behaviour towards women but Brazilian women are no pussy-cats. Now attitudes are changing and it is this change that decided this ad be taken down.

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Ashley who is 20 said, “My adventures in the Pittsburgh International Airport during the worst snow storm of the century. After arriving late for a flight at 7:40 PM to LGA I decided to stick around my gate until my flight at 5:40 and had a BLAST!”

The airport was virtually deserted during the snowstorm so she had fun – and videoed herself doing it. Awesome!

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