Sunday, March 9, 2008

giant mouse lantern?

in an earlier post i mentioned visiting the national lantern festival, "solar city," held this year just outside of tainan. every hour, a giant mouse lantern (honoring the year of the rat) in the center of the fairgrounds would light up and start to spin on its pedestal, wildly dramatic music blasting--so loud you couldn't hear people around you talking--and lasers flying everywhere. it was incredibly over-the-top, and in the course of spending an evening at the festival, i was privileged to witness it three or four times. so silly!

i found a youtube clip capturing the spectacle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UrsFtsHIy0

the action starts about a minute into the clip.

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