No, this is not some celebration of masochists, though it may look like it. It is actually the Phuket Vegetarian Festival, a religious festival believed to bring blessings to all followers. The followers comprise mainly of Chinese in Phuket, Thailand, who follow a strict vegan or vegetarian diet for 10 days to gain favor with [...]

This is one of the world’s largest festival for bodyart or bodypainting. Held in Daegu, South Korea, this festival first started in the Austrian town of Zeeboden back in 1998. Artists from all over the world gather to show off their prowess on living moving canvases. Some look really marvelous.

Was told that these pics were from the Russian Music Fest held in Summer although I really don’t see anything ‘music’ about it. Looks more like another excuse to play in the mud.

Beautiful sculptures from the Ice Festival in Lake Placid. I’m an ice sculptor, last night I made a cube.

Burning man is a festival of radical self-expression. From the 29th of August till the 5th of Septemeber thousands of people gather in the Black Rock desert, Nevada to conduct the most emphatic art-festival in the world. For a short-period a new town emerges with a population of about 50,000 people just to get burned [...]