November 14, 2009
The Night of
Radishes or Noche de Rabanos is celebrated every year on the 23rd of December
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March 01, 2009
Thai Lantern Festival
How to Make Chinese Sky Lanterns
Despertà 2009 - Welcome to Hell, Kid
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October 02, 2008
Giant pumpkin dropped on car
Also, Competitors from across the world have gathered at a pub in Greater Manchester for the World Black Pudding Throwing Championship
Update: Brussel's Central Plaza in Bloom
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July 22, 2008
Napoleon Dynamite Festival
Napoleon Dynamite Festival coming soon again to Preston, Idaho, the real location of the Napoleon Dynamite movie
Naked Oblation Run in The Philippines
Guinea pig festival in Peru. (Look at images 1-4 and then look at 7-8. How's that for an unexpected turn of events?. From Reddit)
Welcome to the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Brooklyn, where we lift & carry a 68-foot tall structure called the Giglio, ('lily' in Italian)
A display by the Italian Motorcycle Police in the 1950's
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January 29, 2008
Sensation White
Sensation White is a Dutch indoor dance-event that is held in Amsterdam ArenA. It started in 2000, and draws as many as 45,000 trance fans to the annual parties. I wanna go!
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October 02, 2007
Happy Easter, everybody
The World Famous Suicide Race, is a horse race held every year, during the second week of August, in Omak, Washington as a part of the Omak Stampede, a rodeo. Held for over 70 years, the race is known for the spectacle of over a dozen horses and riders racing down Suicide Hill, a 225-foot (69 m) slope at a steep 62-degree angle to the Okanogan River
Monkey Buffet Festival at the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150km north of Bangkok. Other Thai festivals
From the largest annual tomato fight in Spain, to Scotland's "Up Helly-Aa" fire festival, a look at the World's Wackiest Holidays
Unrelated: Safe sex (YT)
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July 23, 2007
Living photographs
The festival of Genzano, so called Infiorata, has been celebrated for more than two centuries, in the month of June. For such occasion, the high road Via Italo Belardi is transformed into a flowered carpet, and about 2000 squared meters are decorated with pictures made with flowers, petals, seed and leaves. (From Spluch). Also, in Brussels
Just before World War One, photographer Arthur Mole used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to create the so-called "living photographs", done on a monumental scale. By arranging thousands of soldiers (reservists, or nurses) in various patriotic symbols and photographing them from above, he was able to use lines of perspective to transform meaningless masses into artistic shapes and even portraits
Philippine beauties from the fabled Manila Carnivals 1908-1939. (flickr. From Iz Reloaded)
On June 29, more than hundred artists gathered near Tretyakovskoi Gallery in Moscow to paint 151 Benches of the world
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June 18, 2007
Donkey love
In a small northern Colombian town named San Antero, the ‘Festival del Burro’ (Donkey Festival). Some of the highlights include a donkey stampede and a costume contest, but most of all, the carnival celebrates having sex with donkeys (?)
The 9th Sauna World championships are held in Heinola on the 3rd and the 4th of August 2007… (From Löyly)
Mashed Potato Wrestling at the Potato Days festival at Barnsville, Minnesota
Walpurgisnacht, or Day of the Witches by Paul Klee
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February 18, 2007
新年快乐
Every year Didcot's Thong Ranger run 18 miles from Sobell House to Didcot hospital, in aid of Sobell House
“Every day is Ashura and every land is Kerbala”. (Article is in Russian. Pictures are from Iraq)
Yuka Yamaguchi‘s list of unusual festivals
Australian melon smashing festival
Thaipusam is a Tamil cult festival celebrated on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai, by the Tamil community of non-Hindus and non-Indians
Happy new year to all
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January 26, 2007
Fathers and Daughters
One hundred six balloons in a mass ascension at the Reno Balloon Race 2006. (From Coudal)
Luke Jerram, a sound artist, working with hot air balloon pilot Peter Dalby and composer Dan Jones has developed Sky Orchestra. Seven hot air balloons, each with speakers attached, take off at dawn to fly across a city. Each balloon plays a different element of the musical score creating a massive audio performance that many hundreds of people experience sub-consciously as the balloons fly over their homes
A wikipedia list of the largest historic gatherings of people for a single event. Naturally, top 5 gatherings were in India & in China
Would you pledge your virginity to your father? Colorado Springs’ Seventh Annual Father-Daughter Purity Ball
The Okalolies of Tristan da Cunha are coming. (From Exploding Aardvark)
Over 500 types of mango are featured at the International Mango Festival in Delhi
The Maldon Mud Race: 180 competitors racing through the mud of the River Blackwater at low tide. The winner wadded it for 3 mins 20 seconds. Photos on flickr. (From Welsh View)
By the way, I received quite a few emails today from readers, telling me of difficulties they have reading Growabrain with RSS feeds on NetVibes. In September, there were similar problems on Bloglines. Unfortunately, I have nothing to do with it, and have no clue of how to fix it. Sorry about that.
Instead, I’m gonna flip out like a Ninja
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October 27, 2006
The Spencer Tunick Experience
The Spencer Tunick Experience. (Click on pix to biggify!)
Tomatina is not the only festival in Spain -- turns out the Spanish are just crazy about wacky festivals and here is another glorious one, Cascamorras...
It seems there are two otherwise unnotable towns, Baza and Guadix. They fight over possession of this statue, the "Virgin of Piedad". They've fought over it for five centuries.
...Every year, Guadix sends a team of representatives to Baza in an attempt to get the statue. These representatives are the "Cascamorras". People of Baza wait for the Cascamorras with a big bag of dirt, tinted water, and eggs…
More from Spain - Antzar Eguna festival: Decapitate the goose
Burning Man photos by NK Guy. Since 1999
During the month of September, people from all over the world gather in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland, for the town’s famous matchmaking festival
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September 19, 2006
Dueling Brandos
Stella Shouting Contest. Inspired by the scene in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, this contest offers participants a chance to out shout each other in their best Marlon Brando fashion
Somehow similar: Shouting love in the center of a cabbage field Festival. (From Exploding Aardvark)
The morning after The Ganesh Chaturthi Festival in Bombay, statues of Ganesh are immersed in the sea
More from India: The Tomb of Jesus. This website presents and explores the thesis that Jesus Christ is dead and buried in a tomb in Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Pictures from Burningman 2006 by James Duncan Davidson
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August 27, 2006
After Burn
Welcome to Hope and Fear 2006. (I didn’t make it this year either). 2005 Satellite image of Black Rock City
Ubon Ratchatani is the largest province in Isan, in northeast Thailand. Following the common practice in Thailand, the provincial capital city is also named Ubon Ratchatani. Khao Phansa Day marks the beginning of the rainy season retreat for Buddhist monks. To celebrate this, the Ubon Ratchatani Candle Festival is held in the city every year. Huge wax sculptures are prepared by people from temples throughout the province and paraded through the city
Casey Moore at Fantasy Fest in Key West
The Knob Creek machine gun shoot in Kentucky attracts thousands of neo-Nazis and other extremists. But the orgy of firepower helps everyone get along just fine
Winners of the annual Philadelphia Mummers Parade
The Oatman, AZ Sidewalk Egg Fry Contest
The "Festival of Brass Music" in Guca, Central Serbia
A list of Garlic Festivals around the world, found on another Metafilter thread, Parade of Oddities
(Picture above of a payphone at Burning Man from World Payphones).
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July 10, 2006
Flugtag
Kite Festival in Scheveningen. (By Devos)
A new record: largest letter ever written with a brush. Zhang Kesi, apparently a famous expert in handwriting in China, uses a giant brush to write a Chinese character that means "dragon", in the Exposición Internacional de Horticultura of Shenyang, China
Green Seat, the environmentally friendly festival-chair. (Heja Norge)
Red Bull Flugtag. (for Dave)
The Sultan's Elephant. The Grande Finale. A bit about The Royal de Luxe Street Company
Calendar of Knitting Festivals
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May 14, 2006
White-trash nation
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Panoramic Gallery. (From Mira y Calla)
The Tattoo Festival at Wat. Wat Bang Phra is a Buddhist temple 30 Km from Bangkok where the abbot, Luan Phor Pern is famous for his tattooing skills. Every year, the Temple hosts a Tattoo festival
April 13, 14 and 15 are the Songkran holidays in Thailand, the “gayest of Thailand's festivals”
Belgium's cat parade. (From Metafilter)
2006 festivals observed by the followers of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Beyond trucker hats: The Great American Trailer Park Pageant, hosted by Jerry Springer.
Book your tickets now, because the annual baby jumping festival in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain is only weeks away
Pulilan Carabao Festival celebrating water buffalos
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