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Daytime Fireworks (La Mascletà) at Las Fallas in Valencia 2012

Written by Rickster Wednesday, 04 April 2012 15:27

Valencia is famous for its fireworks. The Valencians love their fireworks so much that they don't just have them at night like we do, they want them during the day too. This presents a rather obvious problem in so much as you cannot see fireworks when the sun is up.

The solution is simple - during the day they have extremely noisy fireworks instead. Brilliant.

From my understanding in the five minutes or so La Mascletà lasts they burn their way through 120KG of explosives.

I have to apologise for the shoddy camera work, but it's difficult to simultaneously hold a camera whilst putting you hands over you ears. You may think this somewhat wimpy of me, but perhaps you'd be more understanding when I tell you that the levels reach 120 dB and people have been known to faint.

To give that some context anything above 90dB listened to regularly will cause damage to your hearing and 130dB is the threshold of pain - aptly named as it's the point where you would suffer immediate permanent hearing damage. It's fun but you wouldn't want it to be the last thing you heard..

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Small Worlds #4 - Walk•Run•Cycle

Written by Rickster Monday, 12 December 2011 14:19

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Happy Birthday Pink 'n' White...

Last Updated on Friday, 02 December 2011 23:54 Written by Rickster Friday, 02 December 2011 23:29

I'd never heard of Pink 'n' Whites until about a year ago when someone offered me one. I took a bite... it tasted of exactly nothing. Curious.. Nothing. Very Strange.

I put it to one side and there it has remained.. a curious experiment to see if it will ever actually break down in any way.

So far.. nothing. It looks exactly the same as it did 12 months ago.

I occasionally have a recurrent nightmare about it. I'm at my own funeral and I am being cremated. I find myself floating above the mourners and then I drift into the crematorium. I watch a man rake through my ashes, the occasional bit of bone, the odd tooth, a bit of molten metal filling... Then he rakes something triangular.. The ash falls away to reveal..

A bite sized chunk of a Pink 'n' White - the missing piece from the whole, untouched, fresh as the day I took that fateful mouthful...

Read some more about it here:

First Thoughts:
http://rickster.co.uk/blog/444-still-life.html

How it became a tourist Attraction
http://rickster.co.uk/blog/455-tourist-attraction.html

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