What a night! But in order.
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| Australian chemists prescribe ukuleles for many ailments |
In the early hours of the noon we went to the Victoria Market – a huge outdoor market with absolutely everything. I bought a hat and almost a didgeridoo – the selection was pretty good! And the food they had there! Especially the seafood, amazing even just to look at. We got an octopus in the end, nom!
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| This one is dedicated to Suzi :* |
Next on the schedule was the zoo. Quite nice, really good monkey and ape section they’ve got, but to have honest, it didn’t blow my ass off. Poznan zoo is at least as good. The orangutans were fantastic though.And the zoo has a new baby elephant and everyone thinks it’s amazingly cute. I didn’t get it for some time, and then I realised – it’s so awesome, because unlike human young, it doesn’t scream all the bloody time.
OK, OK, and now to the point. Tonight is the White Night! Which means stuff happening from 7PM to 7am all the time all over the place, music, dancing, light shows, exhibitions, films, illuminated buildings, street performers, shoes suspended over streets… Tons of things! One entire street saw all its buildings transformed by colourful lights, the everyday gray facades glowing with new intense colors and patterns perfectly matched with the architecture. Elsewhere the lights told stories, put ghosts in windows, made airplanes chase each other on the walls. One side of the Federation Square had an all night scene with gigs while the other had another one with dancers. The street artists were the best – several Japanese people were doing dance-acro routines in various places and were just fantastic! ACMI had a great exposition of works by Candice Breitz, the art gallery exhibited some of Australia’s youngest artists. The Forum had electronic music performances with 3D projections – it was magical and we spent a while there sitting on a bean bag completely enchanted. The riverbank had even more light shows, illuminated bridges, trees and a show on a fountain – the lights moving over the shooting water looked just amazing. And last but not least, a 101 zombie deaths video played in ACMI, a selection of cut outs from various zombie movies with, as the programme said, an undead dying on average once every 27sec. Take that, zombies!
I wish we could have stayed longer, but we had plans for the next day, so we went to bed at 5.30am to get at least 4h of sleep. What a night!
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