This is fresh. Meu irmao Mario Neto from Santa Catarina in the South of Brasil recently finished “Recicle Olhares,” a project with the group O Coletivo de Criação examining the sustainability of the rampant plastic bag industry in Brasil. This rad video accompanying the project (to the score of Sepultura no less) takes a look at people’s ability to see through the convenience of plastic bags, a small revolution that is still yet to really catch on in the mainstream US, but which could have major implications for our collective future. Valeu Mario! Full credits after the jump.

You knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Over the weekend, the Brasilian authorities stormed the Complexo de Alemao and killed at least 42 suspected traficantes. Can you imagine if something went down in New York that ended with 42 people killed? We’d be in a state of emergency. See the mind numbing visuals at Boston.com. Photo by THIAGO CARDOSO/AFP/Getty Images.

I’m getting so gassed that the World Cup is about to start its not even funny! Claro que eu estou representando o Brasil! But the rivalries are heating up, I ran into the homie Lil Jon rocking his GoodWood USA piece while we were doing the Trouble video this weekend.

And here’s P-Rod going in for Mexico at his celebratory dinner after taking 2nd at Maloof.

Meu grande parceiro Joao Salamao com o canarinho at Adidas Cup! Trouble Gang Bang!

Drops Monday May 10 only at www.goodwoodnyc.com!!!! Stay tuned for more!!!

From the tragedy of MC Speed’s murder in Rio last week came a moment of triumph as a piece of Brasilian hip hop history was made last Thursday night with the reunion of Planet Hemp MC’s Marcelo D2 and B Negão with Afrika Bambaataa on the decks in a tribute to the fallen MC. Meu grande irmao Brunno Torres of Favela Music Productions put the show together at Circo Voador in Lapa as part of a nationwide Bambaataa tour that also had Black Alien and Mr. Catra in the house. In his own words, “Marcelo D2 e BNegão não se falavam à muito tempo…se abraçaram no palco, junto ao Black Alien, Kimanzi e Bing-Man…além do mestre Afrika Bambaataa no Circo Voador fazendo o Tributo ao Speed! Foi um momento histórico, super significante pro Movimento Hip Hop Brasileiro e Mundial!” You know what he’s saying! He’s also putting together a mini doc of the whole tour, peep the trailer above and some show footage below. Parabens irmao! Tamujunto!

My big homie and hermano en armas Julio Pardo has been traveling around South America for the last few months and shooting incredible photographs the whole time. For the last month he’s been in Brasil and killing me with shot after shot of the place I love more than any other. I’ve jacked a few of them here and after the jump but go to his site Girls Got Limits for the complete rolls. You gonna want to cop a ticket today. Julio is also dropping a zine this July with Foreign Family with photos from his 2009 travels to Moscow, NYC, Barcelona, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philly and Costa Rica that will be tradeable for bagels. Just hit him up here.

In some tragic news from Brasil, one of the foremost innovators of Brasilian hip hop was found murdered in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Speedfreaks and his partner Black Alien are like the Brasilian equivalent of BDP. This is a major loss. Decanse em Paz Speed. Read the original article here.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I hereby nominate the Nike Sportswear Brasil Black Pack as the dopest collection ever made across any sport or brand. All black everything x Brasil? Destroyer, Windrunner, Packable M-65, serio? Eu preciso isso pra caralho! Look for me waiting for these to drop outside of 21 Mercer the first week of April. For real, that’s where I’ll be.

This is some hot shit! I got this from my homegirl Nicole Nandes, who runs the night in Rio with her LUV parties. It’s crazy because I was just talking about this with Deka last night about how the tickets to Rio are even more expensive this summer than when the gas prices were mad high and how the hell can that be. It’s gotta be because all the bloodsuckers are on their way down there to figure out how best to exploit the fuck out of the city from now until the World Cup and Olympics are over. Fuck that! This poster says it best: You mess with Rio, you mess with Me! E Noi$$$!!!

My lovely homegirls, the Retalhos Cariocas have just gotten another ill piece of press, this time getting the front page of the Jornal O Globo Caderno Zona Norte, which is the section that covers Rio’s North Zone. The Retalhos are revolutionizing both the processes of sustainable clothing manufacturing as well as community empowerment and mobilization from their home base in the Barreira do Vasco favela. Read my interview with Luciana Meireles of the Retalhos Cariocas here. PARABENS MENINAS!!! Photo by Fernando Frazão.