Thursday, February 22, 2007Happy Chinese New Years to everyone!This New Year's eve was a time spent surrounded by friends, family and lots of tea. It wasn't exactly a traditional or calming setting for taking apart 10 different pu'er cakes and sampling the past few years of aged Wuyi mountain tea left lying around for special occasions. We are actually rarely in Beijing for CNY, but this time we had the special treat of being located on the 23rd floor of one family members apartment in Xuanwu district; close by to the tea city. From high up like this we were able to have a different appreciation for the completely normal festive celebratory fireworks that each family usually partakes in. Using a macbook's iSight camera we perched the computer on the windowsill while marvelling at the amazing noise and light show going on throughout the entire visible space. That was at 9pm, then again at 10:30pm after dinner #2, and then once more from 11:45pm to 12:30am. We've posted some 2.5 minutes of this unbelievable footage from the last segment around 12:15am. At around 1:30am the intensity dropped off sharply, but the video posted here is representative of at least 1.5 hours-worth of windowsill explosions. It is now several days after CNY's eve and still tonight we have a scene that looks like a low-level war going on, though not nearly intense enough for our little iSight camera to pick it up the same way. It definitely must be seen live to believe, but i think this clip can demonstrate the spirit of the celebrations even if it is dark and not super clear.
Enjoy the video, and again happy new years to everyone! http://www.youtube.com/v/r7sDqPrJ7HU posted by Efrain at 11:49 AM 0 Comments:Previous Posts
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