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Float or “yatai” getting ready for its procession around town for the spring matsuri festival in Takayama, Japan.
The Imperial Order of Odd Fellows float, one of Nelson's older City lodges. The Kootenay Lodge was incorporated on November 24th, 1919. The Odd Fellows are an international fraternity dating back to the 1700s, and are still active today.
To get the feeling of Mardi Gras year-round, visit Mardi Gras World, the largest float designing and building facility in the world. Here more than 80 percent of the floats that journey down New Orleans' streets during the Carnival season are designed and built.
Begun in 1947 by float designer and builder Blaine Kern, Mardi Gras World provides visitors with the opportunity to don authentic Mardi Gras costumes and tour enormous warehouses filled with floats. The tour includes a short video and guide who is quite knowledgeable about Mardi Gras history and customs. And for a taste of Mardi Gras, king cake and piping hot New Orleans coffee are served.
During the tour, visitors learn about the many traditions surrounding Mardi Gras parades, balls and music, as well as the intricacies of float designing and building. Mardi Gras floats began rumbling down New Orleans streets in 1837 with mule-drawn carriages. Today the tradition continues with sophisticated mega-floats, which hold more than 200 masked riders and are lit with fiber optic cables and laser lights.
Model: Kathi
Assisstant: Eric
Location: Beelitz Heilstätten
We used tape to create the "outfit" :D
Was a awesome shooting. I thank you both for it again:D
I managed to get a quick picture of the Downey Float getting ready to head out for it's 8-hour ride to Pasadena...taking side streets. On a normal day, it's only 25 minutes away. Our City float is built just a few blocks from my home, so I frequently go to the building site the week before New Year's Eve. Not this year, though. The route takes it just 10 houses away from mine at the end of the street. Usually, it's traveling so quickly I can't get a good shot. Just feet from the main street, they were stopped for some last-minute adjustments. I hopped out of the car and grabbed a quick shot of the back end of the float. Thanks, Judy, for coming with me. I should have gotten a picture of you with the float.
I am creating an art float with friends and neighbors for this year’s Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade.
Our float for this parade features the Bamboodu Theater, a mobile puppet stage I created for civic events and art shows. Our first show stars Lady Liberty and Mr. Trump. As music plays, a Mr. Trump’s recent tweets and alternative facts appear on a news ticker. Each time Trump says something wrong, Liberty hits him on his thick, bobbing head.
As we march, we will invite parade watchers to sing along the inspiring poem by Emma Lazarus about the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor …”). Through this interactive art experience, we hope to engage people of all ages to change the world through civic action.
I am building this float with a wonderful team at the Mill Valley Community Action Network (MVCAN), a local political group which I recently joined to resist the conservative takeover of our country.
I’m very grateful to all our friends and neighbors who are helping bring it to life: Danny Altman, Laura Boles, Jean Bolte, Phyllis Florin, David Glad, Peter Graumann, Edward Janne, Suz Lipman, Jean Marie Murphy and Mark Petrakis, to name but a few.
Our Bamboodu Float is coming along beautifully, and I can’t wait to show it off at the parade on Monday, May 29, 2017.
Join your neighbors to keep democracy alive!
Learn more about the Bamboodu Float: bit.ly/mvcan-float-info
Learn more about my Bamboodu Theater: bit.ly/bamboodu-info
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Large Nebuta lantern float with light. Nebuta House Warasse, Aomori, Aomori prefecture, Japan. 青森市 ねぶたの家 ワ・ラッセ