Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festival. Show all posts
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Monday, July 18, 2011
14th Boryeong Mud Festival, South Korea
As the hot weather approaches, both local residents and foreigners visited the city of Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea, to enjoy the summer heat at the annually held Boryeong Mud Festival. The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place over a period of around two weeks in July. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.
The mud is of Boryeong mud flats, is considered to be rich in minerals and is actually used to manufacture cosmetics. In fact, the festival was conceived to promote a range of cosmetics that were produced using mud from the Boryeong mud flats. The festival has grown incredibly popular ever since. (Also see Michigan Residents Celebrate Annual Mud Day)
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The mud is of Boryeong mud flats, is considered to be rich in minerals and is actually used to manufacture cosmetics. In fact, the festival was conceived to promote a range of cosmetics that were produced using mud from the Boryeong mud flats. The festival has grown incredibly popular ever since. (Also see Michigan Residents Celebrate Annual Mud Day)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
World Body painting Festival 2011
The world bodypainting festival in Austria is one of the biggest art show in the bodypaiting theme. Since its inception in 1998, visitors have flocked to the event to admire the wild works of artists from over 40 nations worldwide. It draws the best two hundred body painting artist teams and models, as well as tens of thousands of visitors, from all over the world every year.
The festival lasts a week, of which the first four days consist of over thirty special workshops and lessons run by the WBF Academy, and the last three days consist of the actual festival event in the body paint city. The artists compete in many categories such as brush and sponge, airbrush, and special effects. At night time there is also a special UV effects contest giving the title for World Champion in UV bodypainting effects. There is a World Facepainting Award and a special award for special effects face make up.
Usually, the subject’s body is usually completely naked, save for a very short bikini or a G-string. Among other things, a great bodypainting job is measured how effectively the artist hides the the private parts of the subject.
The 2001 World Bodypainting Festival began on June 27 and finished on July 3. (Warning: this gallery contains nudity)
Friday, May 6, 2011
La Tomatina Festival in Spain – Spain’s Tomato Fight Festival
La Tomatina Festival in Spain – Spain’s Tomato Fight Festival
Friday, April 29, 2011
Songkran Festival: Thai New Year Celebration
The Hungarians aren’t the only ones dousing each other with water this April. The Thais are traditionally known to celebrate the Songkran festival as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April by splashing water. The Songram festival coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia.
The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns (sometimes mixed with mentholated talc), or post themselves at the side of roads with a garden hose and drench each other and passersby. This, however, was not always the main activity of this festival. Songkran was traditionally a time to visit and pay respects to elders, including family members, friends, neighbors, and monks.
The throwing of water originated as a way to pay respect to people, by capturing the water after it had been poured over the Buddhas for cleansing and then using this "blessed" water to give good fortune to elders and family by gently pouring it on the shoulder. Among young people the holiday evolved to include dousing strangers with water to relieve the heat, since April is the hottest month in Thailand (temperatures can rise to over 100°F or 40°C on some days). This has further evolved into water fights and splashing water over people riding in vehicles.
The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns (sometimes mixed with mentholated talc), or post themselves at the side of roads with a garden hose and drench each other and passersby. This, however, was not always the main activity of this festival. Songkran was traditionally a time to visit and pay respects to elders, including family members, friends, neighbors, and monks.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Coolest Christmas Festival of China
These impressive ice sculptures are part of a display for the upcoming Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by Macy's, a chain of department stores across the United States. The tradition started in 1927, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, and four years younger than the 6abc IKEA Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia. The three-hour event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Interesting facts-World's biggest Easter egg
he Easter egg or Ukrainian ‘Pysanka,’ was constructed in 1975 to commemorate early Ukrainian settlements in an area east of Edmonton.
Professor Resch was responsible for the entire Pysanka concept which required the development of new computer programs.
The Pysanka is really an immense jig-saw puzzle containing 524 star patterns, 2,206 equilateral triangles, 3,512 visible facets, 6,978 nuts and bolts, and 177 internal struts.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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