South Korean Live Food Festival
Live octopus is a delicacy in South Korea but is a known choking hazard, since the still-moving suction cups can cause tentacle pieces to stick in a person’s throat. A baby octopus is often consumed whole, while larger varieties are cut up and the still-wriggling tentacles eaten with a splash of sesame oil.
A South Korean man and a woman eat a live octopus during an event to promote a local food festival in Seoul on September 12, 2013. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo) Continue reading »
2013 World Architecture Festival
The Halley VI centre designed by British architects Hugh Broughton in Antarctica which is a dismantlable research station created in the icy wastes for the British Antarctic Survey and has been shortlisted for a global architecture award. (World Architecture Festival 2013/PA Wire) Continue reading »
World’s Biggest Tomato Fight at Tomatina Festival 2013
Revellers throw tomato pulp while participating the annual Tomatina festival on August 28, 2013 in Bunol, Spain. An estimated 20,000 people threw 130 tons of ripe tomatoes in the world’s biggest tomato fight held annually in this Spanish Mediterranean town. (Photos by David Ramos/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Beach Festival Show Run Down in Singapore
Models present lingerie wear collection by Valiesere and Hom at Tanjong Beach Sentosa during a Beach Festival Show Run Down in Singapore on August 3, 2013. (AFP/Scanpix) Continue reading »
The International Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons Festival
Hot-air balloons are pictured from a control tower while flying over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, on July 31, 2013, to try to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP Photo) Continue reading »
Copenhagen Ink Festival
Pernille Ferdinandsen receives a neck tattoo from Peter Madsen during the third Copenhagen Ink Festival which opened Thursday May 9, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the biggest tattoo festival in Northern Europe. During the three days, 180 of the world’s best and most celebrated national and international tattoo artists show the audience their skills in making art on the body and tattoo’s on the audience. (Lars Krabbe/AP Photo) Continue reading »
Homemade Car Festival
24th Festival of roller carriages passed, or rather rolled in Medellin, on October 7, 2012. Best “drivers” of the festival are in the collection. (AFP/Raul Arboleda) Continue reading »
Avicii Performs at the Austin City Limits Music Festival
Avicii performs at the Austin City Limits Music Festival at October, 12. (John Davisson/Invision) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Holi Festival in Berlin
People throw colored powder into the air during the Holi Festival in Berlin. The original Holi, also known as the festival of colors, is a festival celebrated in India and other Hindu countries. Some thousands of people celebrated this event with Indian Djs, acrobatics and dance in the German capital. (Oliver Lang/dapd) Click image to zoom.
Floriade 2012: World Horticulture Festival
It’s the return of the once-in-a-decade Netherlands flower fest, the Floriade 2012 World Horticulture Expo. With 1.8m bulbs planted across 44 hectares, and more than two million visitors expected over a six-month run, this is one of the gardening world’s stratospheric events. Here’s the view from the opening week. Photograph: Ermindo Armino/AP, Paul Raats/EPA, Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images.
A field of flowers at Floriade in Venlo, the Netherlands, where the sixth edition of the festival has opened. Continue reading »
Lake Worth’s 18th Annual Street Painting Festival
For a weekend, the streets of downtown Lake Worth are a canvas being transformed into works of art. With hundreds of artists using only chalk creating more than 200 paintings, the festival claims to be the largest of its kind in the world.
Street performers and musical entertainment contribute to the festive atmosphere, and artists will continue working on their creations at 10 a.m. Sunday, February 26.
Carrie Bennett, an art teacher from Ft. Lauderdale, works on her piece. (Richard Graulich/The Palm Beach Post) Continue reading »
“Death – Festival for the Living” Exhibit
Visitors photograph various custom designed coffins, during the “Death – Festival for the Living” exhibit, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, on Jan. 28. Crazy Coffins, an offshoot of a Nottingham-based traditional coffin and urn maker which took on a new identity in the 1990s when people began asking to customize their final resting places, presents uncanny coffins as part of the exhibit. Continue reading »
Body Art Festival in Venezuela
Dancers for the Art Colour Ballet from Poland perform during the sixth World Meeting of Body Art in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP) Continue reading »
Sarasota Chalk Festival 2011: Best International Artwork
The Sarasota Chalk Festival, an annual international street art exhibit and competition in Sarasota, Fla., closed on Nov. 7, 2011 after a week of events, and this year, latecomers were in for an unwelcome surprise. For the first time ever, Sarasota officials were spraying down the sidewalks the day after the 2011 festival, erasing the hundreds of chalk traditional, mosaic and 3D artworks created by artists from around the world.
Juandres Vera, of Mexico, finishes his submission for the 3D Pavement Art category at the 2011 Sarasota international Chalk Festival. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Festival of Lights
A NASA Satellite photo over India, as the festival of lights begins. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, stretches beyond India, a five-day holiday encompassing multiple stories from around the world, involving Hindus, some Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains. For India, however, where roughly 80 percent of the population practices Hinduism, Diwali 2011 is and will be a massive and deeply Hindu affair, one involving dancing, shows, religious worship and lots of fireworks. (NASA)
Zombie Flashmob Surprises Film Festival
People dressed as zombies take part in a flashmob in Vienna September 27, 2011. The zombie flashmob coincided with the Slash Film Festival which showcases horror, fantasy, animation and science-fiction movies. Continue reading »
The 25th Annual Bristol International Kite Festival
A giant monkey kite flies at the 25th annual Bristol International Kite Festival on the Ashton Court Estate in England. Following two attempts on the previous day, plans were abandoned to fly the world’s largest kite due to strong turbulence and damage caused the day before. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
The Scarecrow Festival in Kettlewell, England
A scarecrow dressed as the former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks, and another made from corks and dressed as a bartender stand as part of the annual scarecrow festival in Kettlewell, England. (Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images) Continue reading »
The Tattoo Jam Festival
The Tattoo Jam Festival in Doncaste is Britain’s biggest gathering of tattoo professionals and skin art devotees. The event hosts over 300 artists working in the exhibition hall of Doncaster Racecourse. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Continue reading »
L.A. Rising Festival at the Coliseum
Artist Sahra Vang, 24, of Boston spray-paints the likeness of Lauryn Hill at the L.A. Rising Re-education compound at the Coliseum where social and political groups and artists talked with concertgoers. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
‘Bulls to the Sea’ Festival in Eastern Spain
Revelers jump into the sea followed by a bull, during the ‘Bous a la Mar’ or “Bulls to the Sea” festival in the eastern town of Denia, Spain, Wednesday, July 13. (Fernando Bustamante / AP)
The ‘Bulls to the Sea’ festival is a local variant of Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls (see photos). According to the AP, the bulls are later brought back to land by small boats. Continue reading »
F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance.
“Happy” was the theme we were given by the organizers for this year’s F5 Re:Play Fest, held in April in NYC, to create this edition’s pieces, probably the hardest thing to convey in any artistic expression. After a good deal of introspection, and teaming up with awesome motion graphics artist Gerardo del Hierro, we decided that happy wasn’t happy for Physalia unless pliers, microchips and a bit of soldering were involved, and with this idea we resolved to create the happiest machine Physalia has built to date.
Credits:
Direction: Physalia (http://physaliastudio.com) & Gerardo del Hierro (http://grrddh.com)
Music: Fernando Dominguez
San Fermin Festival In Pamplona. PETA Protests. Corrida in Barcelona.
Spain celebrates a Saint Fermin (San Fermin Festival), traditionally takes place in the city of Pamplona. The main «enserro» is a bulls runs through the streets of the city. The ceremony of «Sanfermines” (Los Sanfermines) opened on Monday at noon with a traditional rockets launch from the City Hall balcony.
A day before, in Pamplona… PETA and Animas Naturalis had a bloody campaign against the entertainment in the days of the festival of St. Fermin. Dozens of people on the central square of the city poured paint on their bodies like blood. The aim of the activists – to ban corrida and street race with bulls.
Meanwhile, on 5th of July a corrida has started in Barcelona, the traditional season which begins in March and ends in October.
