Sendecki's Blog » South America http://www.sendecki.com Decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:31:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 I’m asking you to believe… http://www.sendecki.com/2008/04/24/i%e2%80%99m-asking-you-to-believe/ http://www.sendecki.com/2008/04/24/i%e2%80%99m-asking-you-to-believe/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:19:30 +0000 Daniel http://www.sendecki.com/2008/04/24/i%e2%80%99m-asking-you-to-believe/ Barack Obama

“I’m asking you to believe, not in my ability to bring about real change in Washington. I’m asking you to believe in yours.” —Barack Obama.

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São Paulo Before

São Paulo After

Writes Larry Rohter of the International Herald Tribune:

Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom.

Come the new year, this city of 11 million, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the “delete all” button and offer its residents unimpeded views of their surroundings…

Read the rest of the Tribune’s story here.

Link to the Flick set courtesy boingboing.net. Discovered via digg.

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