Celebration of Light 2006 - Czech Republic

Today is Wednesday and therefore Celebration of lights day :). X and I had planned to go together again, but due to last-minutes changes to his job schedule, and people not responding to their MSN, I ended up attending this event on my own. Meh... it wasn't all that bad.

I didn't have to worry about losing someone in the crowd and I didn't have to wait around for people to catch up. The down-side? Well, if I wanted a REALLY nice spot, then I'd have had to go early and sit alone like a loser O.o I opted to go just before the start of the show and shove my way to the front of the standing crowd :p

On the way down to the beach I stumbled upon one of the Capoeira Schools doing a street exhibition :) These guys are great... I'd attend Capoeira lessons, but it's pretty steep, who knows, maybe in the future :p

I pushed my way down to the section in front of the speakers, same place as last time. This time I made sure that I was at the front of the standers :p well, almost in front anyway. It was a nice change to be able to setup the tripod and shoot instead of standing there holding my arms out for 25 minutes :) The resulting video is much better than the previous shaky cam ones although since it was a windless night, the smoke ended up lingering and obstructing some of the fireworks. You'll see... I'm encoding / uploading the videos, so you'll have to bear with me ;)

The aftermath:

On the way back to the car (I took Davie St) I noticed that there was a group of people causing a rukus. Naturally, I followed hoping that I would get some good footage that I could post on the net curious to see if anything would happen. Lo-and-behold...


The guy that's facing me was screaming something to his buddy, "hey *friend's name*! Make sure you get this shit and send it to me!"... then there was his friend, "This is illegal! It's against our rights!" Rights? What rights? :P The only right that was violated was your right-to-not-be-a-moron-in-a-place-crawling-with-5-0, & you gave that one up the moment you stepped out your house, dumbass.