🐆✨The Nexialist #0160

amor de carnaval | riding cupids | censorship? | theriocephaly | carnaval’s highlights | tropicalismo dark | fever | pornhub’s 2023 year in review | rim job | macetando

Feb 15, 2024

welcome to your weekly dose of glittered content, the nexialist

hey, you! i hope this message finds you well. this week has been a mashup of events: carnaval, valentine’s day (sending love to juan and andrea🫰🏼) and the superbowl. meanwhile, i had to fight against fomo, but it paid off. i spent time with my parents and sister, ate my mother’s food (the best), my father’s barbecue (the best), got a tan and went to visit my mom’s parents on their homestead (i had to google this word). it was so good to reconnect with them and with nature: we ate homemade food from their garden and i can’t stop thinking about it. it was a nourishing week for the body and soul. so now, you can get some of that second-handed in this nexialist. enjoy 🫀✨

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❤️‍🔥amor de carnaval

loving the new song by jup do bairro featuring maria alcina (from last week’s fio maravilha) and pagode da 27. it samples a traditional carnaval song, abre alas, by jorge goulart, singing about the post-carnaval heartbreaks and going back to reality.

Sabotagem se disfarça de intuição / Sabotage disguises itself as intuition
E quando vem na mente, a gente até evita / And when it comes to mind, we even avoid it
Antes de ficar assim, era uma confusão / Before it got like this, it was a mess
Alguns pentelhos na boca e glitter na virilha / Some pubes in the mouth and glitter in the crotch

brainsparks: fio maravilha (tn#159)

🦋riding cupids

this post from gods and foolish grandeur has a collection by michelangelo maestri of cupids riding different animals/insects/creatures to illustrate different kinds of love and they are supercute and random.

Michelangelo Maestri (1741, Rome - 1812, Rome), Italian artist. His best known compositions were based on motifs from frescos discovered in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and from designs by Raphael or the latter's pupil Giulio Romano. His work was frequently purchased by European travelers during their Grand Tour. Some of his subjects that were most popular with collectors portray putti leading animals from a chariot or other conveyance - realistic or fantastical - and were inspired by ceiling frescoes in the salone of the Villa Lante in Rome.

via messy nessy chic

🍑censorship?

Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, The Fall of Lucifer (**1588–90)**

a dutch artist that paints nice bums, a bunch of naked guys together and replaces d*cks for insects… why hadn’t i heard of cornelis cornelisz van haarlem before? i couldn’t find an exact name for this kind of censorship, but i love it. also, homoerotic apocalyptic vibes is just a match i was not expecting, especially from the 16th century.

also, i couldn’t find any info if this was done on purpose as a censorship, some sort of symbology, just for fun, or all of it. thank you arthur lubow for writing about it in the nyt: the lusty creativity of cornelis cornelisz van haarlem.

brainsparks: callipygian (tn#139)

🦅theriocephaly

**The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1554) - Frans Floris**

Theriocephaly (Greek "animal headedness") refers to beings that have an animal head attached to an anthropomorphic, or human, body; for example, the animal-headed forms of gods depicted in ancient Egyptian religion (such as Ra, Sobek, Anubis).

arthur lubow mentioned a flemish artist who came before cornelis and who i was also not familiar with, frans floris. can you spot the eagle genitalia? i might have found a new obsession… also, it’s funny to see the choice of a more tenacious and majestic bird than the cock.

🐆carnaval’s highlights

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enough of european art, let’s talk a bit more about carnaval. there is actually a lot to talk about, but i haven’t been following thoroughly so these are some things that made it to my feed and gave me such strong brainsparks that they became goosebumps. first, paolla oliveira for acadêmicos do grande rio, making theriocephaly brazilian, becoming a jaguar and samba-ing like a queen. their theme was “our destiny is to be jaguar.”

portela, one of the top samba schools from rio, based their plot (enredo) on the novel a colour defect by ana maria gonçalves. i haven’t read the book, but it gave me chills to watch their parade. breathtaking.

The novel narrates the history and trade of African slaves in Brazil through the eyes of Kehinde, an African elder that comes from Africa to Brazil searching for Omotunde, her son with a Portuguese man, lost for decades. UM DEFEITO DE COR (A COLOR DEFECT) -- the name of an old law that allowed Black and mixed race people to request that "the color defect be overlooked" when they demonstrated extreme talent, competence or will -- is recognised as a major work of Brazilian literature.

growing up in a religious white family, carnaval was frowned upon, and after becoming an adult, every year i better understand its importance to brazilian culture, its social and political relevance and its exuberant beauty and necessity. it’s the right for creative expression, it’s resistance, both the carnaval parade and the street carnaval.

About street carnaval in são paulo: The carnaval disputes a city ethos. São Paulo has always crystallized this is a kind of national anecdote: the city of work, the city that never sleeps, the city that produces, the city that is a locomotive. and this is an ethos that you are somehow forced to assimilate while living in São Paulo, to internalize it. Carnaval challenges this ethos. Carnival wants São Paulo to also be, in addition, the city of leisure, the city of idleness, the city of fun, the city of smiles, the city that doesn't work so much to be able to enjoy a little bit and live. — guilherme varella in the ilustríssima conversa podcast: street carnaval is not a mess, it’s a constitutional right.

how incredible is that each school takes a theme (in this case a book), develops a plot divided into acts/wings, makes a song, designs hundreds of outfits and the floats, rehearses with hundreds of people for months to put on this show. if you ask me this is peak storytelling, performance, collaboration and resistance.

this year, when we see this liminal space between the digital and concrete realms converging (i.e. margiela shiny make-up), i had another realization that allowed me to see carnaval as something else: carnaval bends reality to blend it with imagination, to tell immersive stories. and it has been done for centuries.

brainsparks: amazonize the world

🌃tropicalismo dark

on a darker note… madd rod & noporn released a new track that mixes beats with the darker side of brazilian society, inequality. another addition to my playlist 👨‍🎤you upload yourself to San Junipero and go party at The Quagmire🤘

meu tropicalismo são as pessoas catando lixo na porta da minha casa, pra comer / my tropicalism is people picking up rubbish outside my house, to eat
é a falta de vontade e a maldade dos governos / it is the lack of will and evil of governments
a mesquinhez dos ricos / the pettiness of the rich
a falta de amor / the lack of love
de educação / of education

brainsparks: post-punk, electronic body music (tn#84), the brazilianization of the world (tn#35)

🥵fever

last week i shared Mahmood giving us a touch of funk carioca (tn#159), now we get little simz even singing in portuguese. so good! thank you, dimas from

Música em Casa

for the tip.

I'm in São Paulo with me and my friend
She is a ten, I is a ten
Shut down the city, won't see us again
I am the realest, I cannot pretend
Countin' my money, I know how to spend
Might I apologise if I offend

brainsparks: beat diaspora (tn#125)

🍆pornhub’s 2023 year in review

a year ago,

Matt Klein

posted on twitter some insights on pornhub’s year in review trends, so i decided to do something similar this year. “PornHub's Global Year in Review report could be one of the most fascinating and overlooked glimpses into the collective psyche. If we're to understand our moment and mind, we've got to be comfortable with the uncomfortable.” i couldn’t agree more.

just taking a look at their top 5 trends, some things came to mind. it feels like most of pornhub’s top trends are counter-movements to what we see in other realms of society, exposing our societies paradoxes.

#1 the golden age: while ageism is rampant on social media (judgements about madonna’s body and age come to mind), it is curious to see the search for mature, milf, dilf and granny growing. this tension can tell us about our ambiguous relationship to aging.
#2 supersize: while we see an emerging conversation around degrowth and an established discourse around body positivity, the innermost desires are residual with the “more is more” mindset.
#3 sex machine: when the virtual and concrete collide, the carnal desires gets tangled with technology. people role playing as robots, robots having sex better than humans, desire is now mediated through the screen. interesting to see this here, when last year we had outdoors on the top trends.
#4 uniforms: in the current state of wars and militarization, soldiers and cops are fetishized and desired. on one hand this might give them some kind of human trait (they’re horny just like me) on the other, shows the old-as-time relationship between sex and power/authority.
#5 sexual healing: maybe the most interesting trend here, showing the intimate craving for healing and human touch.

brainsparks: pornhub’s year in review 2022 (tn#108), masturbation data is beautiful (tn#139), how tech is reshaping male masturbation, the porn conversation (tn#95), the dangers of big d*** energy (tn#104), measuring manhood (tn#125)

👅rim job

i’m so happy to see kim petras in the mainstream. she is now releasing a sequel to slut pop, slut pop miami and it's pearl-clutching in the best way possible. who doesn’t love a story of a guy who is exploring new sexual horizons?

brainsparks: slut techno (tn#139)

✨macetando

let’s celebrate this carnaval hit reaching spotify’s top 100 global. also, i love to see two great artists commanding the stage. about the meaning: macetando (malleting) was already a gen z known word for dancing sensually and/or having s*x, but now it has reached mainstream and the brazilian portals had to write articles about it, introducing the slang from bahia to the whole country.

see you next week, carnavalescos🎭✨

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