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August - Divers 2018
Laeken Firework Spectacular 2018
Fireworks will light up the sky of the capital city for five nights on the Fridays of 27 July, and 3, 10, 17 and 24 August. The Laeken Firework will be held on the Heysel Plateau at the foot of the Palais 5.
Last summer, the City of Brussels launched five new convivial events on the Heysel Plateau: Laeken Firework Spectacular.
On Friday 27 July, plus 3, 10 , 17 and 24 August, a small village will be installed around the Atomium (Place de Belgique 1 - 1020 Brussels). Various activities will be organized, giving Laeken families, the people of Brussels and tourists the opportunity to take part, be entertained and enjoy delicious food and drinks from the many food trucks.
27/07: The circus, with 'ATOM'CIRCUS';
03/08: a creative 'DO IT YOURSELF' workshop village;
10/08: a 'JUNGLE FUN' adventure circuit with entertaining contests;
17/08: 'URBAN COLORS' for a colourful 'street art' atmosphere;
24/08: a musical journey from the 1940s to the present era: 'BACK IN TIME'.
Dance and street performances, workshops, demonstrations, games, introductory sessions... Both young and old will find plenty to their liking! And every night at 11 pm, a talented pyrotechnician will stage a dazzling firework display from the foot of Palais 5.
These five events will add even more luster to the summer programme already in place at the Heysel Plateau: Mini Europe, Oceade..., as well as tours of the Atomium, the celebrations and exhibitions organized to mark the monument's sixtieth birthday.
Diversity, warmth and interaction, our capital's biggest strengths, will be the main ingredients for Laeken Firework Spectacular. Once more this year, summer in Brussels will start with a bang!
Photos of August 2018
Photos de aout 2018
( Diverses photos prisent en 2018 sans sujet reel.
Various pictures taken in 2018 without real subject. )
Fireworks over the Pont d'Adolphe on the eve of Luxembourg's National Day/ Grand-Duke's Birthday in 2023
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)
This is a distinction I might bring up to give a clearer idea of before and now: before we swam, and now we are swum.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
No, I'm going too fast; or too slow, I don't know: because this expansion of the universe was infinitely fast yet started out from a beginning so deeply buried in nothing that to push its way out and peep over the threshold of space and time required a wrench of such violence as not to be measurable in terms of space and time. Let's say that, to tell everything that happened in the first second of the history of the universe, I should have to put together an account so long that the whole subsequent duration of the universe with its millions of centuries past and future would not be enough; whereas everything that came afterwards I could polish off in five minutes.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
Space is curved everywhere, but in some places it's more curved than in others: like pockets or bottlenecks or niches, where the void is crumpled up. These niches are where, every two hundred and fifty million years, there is a slight tinkling sound and a shiny hydrogen atom is formed like a pearl between the valves of an oyster.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
August - Divers 2018
Laeken Firework Spectacular 2018
Fireworks will light up the sky of the capital city for five nights on the Fridays of 27 July, and 3, 10, 17 and 24 August. The Laeken Firework will be held on the Heysel Plateau at the foot of the Palais 5.
Last summer, the City of Brussels launched five new convivial events on the Heysel Plateau: Laeken Firework Spectacular.
On Friday 27 July, plus 3, 10 , 17 and 24 August, a small village will be installed around the Atomium (Place de Belgique 1 - 1020 Brussels). Various activities will be organized, giving Laeken families, the people of Brussels and tourists the opportunity to take part, be entertained and enjoy delicious food and drinks from the many food trucks.
27/07: The circus, with 'ATOM'CIRCUS';
03/08: a creative 'DO IT YOURSELF' workshop village;
10/08: a 'JUNGLE FUN' adventure circuit with entertaining contests;
17/08: 'URBAN COLORS' for a colourful 'street art' atmosphere;
24/08: a musical journey from the 1940s to the present era: 'BACK IN TIME'.
Dance and street performances, workshops, demonstrations, games, introductory sessions... Both young and old will find plenty to their liking! And every night at 11 pm, a talented pyrotechnician will stage a dazzling firework display from the foot of Palais 5.
These five events will add even more luster to the summer programme already in place at the Heysel Plateau: Mini Europe, Oceade..., as well as tours of the Atomium, the celebrations and exhibitions organized to mark the monument's sixtieth birthday.
Diversity, warmth and interaction, our capital's biggest strengths, will be the main ingredients for Laeken Firework Spectacular. Once more this year, summer in Brussels will start with a bang!
Photos of August 2018
Photos de aout 2018
( Diverses photos prisent en 2018 sans sujet reel.
Various pictures taken in 2018 without real subject. )
Yes, yes, now that you mention it, it all comes back to me!—exclaimed old Qfwfq—Of course. It began to sprout up like a mushroom, the Moon, from underwater: I happened to be passing by in a boat just at that spot, when I suddenly felt something pushing me from below. 'Damn! A sandbank!' I shouted, but I'd already been hoisted in the air on top of a sort of white lump, my boat high and dry as well, my fishing line dangling above the water and my hook in the air.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)