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The City Of São Paulo Dances To The Tune Of Washed Out Neon

Brüno Melo's Dancing City GIFs deconstruct a concrete jungle into a jungle boogie.

Adults dance (or try to), children dance, animals dance, even robots can dance. But have you ever seen a dancing city? Probably not unless it's very early in the morning and you've been up all night.

Brazilan artist Brüno Melo has created a series of GIFs called Dancing Citywhich with flashing washed-out colors and broken lines deconstruct the buildings that constantly crop up in the cityscape of modern day São Paulo—turning them into an architectural Saturday Night Fever.

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It's a way for the artist to claim back his city and create something pleasing to the eye from the concrete structures and their ceaseless advancement.

Here's Melo's Google-translated statement about the project:

Every day a new building springs from the floor of the state capital. Expensive, inexpensive, large or small, every day I see new cement pieces trying to play our polluted sky.

The Dancing City consists in deconstructing these constructions. After all, if the large contractors can build in the capital, I can deconstruct.

@stewart23rd