Where's the "BIRD"?

If you find yourself winding through the "Floresta da Tijuca", which is a one way road that starts at the back of the Pedra de Gavea in Itanhanga and comes out in the neighborhood of Tijuca, make sure you play this new version of "Where's Waldo". Only I call this game "BIRD!" Actually, the bird's name is Clessio, but I prefer yelling BIRD! He's graffiti artist Igor Nunes' pet and is part of a movement against trafficking and trade of protected animals. Though it's not clear exactly how this bird tag does this unless you are willing to look him up on the web.  I noticed him as soon as we arrived in Rio and read about him on Eatrio. Here's a video of Igor in action.

BIRD!

BIRD!

BIRD!

BIRD!

BIRD!

I had to stop screaming BIRD because the driver of the car, my husband, didn't find the game as amusing as I and my in-laws in the back of the car. But it was fun while it lasted. A lot more fun than trying to decipher the pixacao , (tagging) which disfigures the city. On this flicker page, the photographs seem to attempt to beautify tagging and even though journalist Joao Wainer, explains well the origins of pixacao, the taggers who are maginalized and the risks they take, I still have a hard time finding beauty in this type of "art", compared to the BIRD, even though this yellow guy in a trucker hat really is "tagged" in a lot of places....