The Wonderlust Journal » festival http://thewonderlustjournal.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 The Festival of Holi http://thewonderlustjournal.com/the-festival-of-holi/ http://thewonderlustjournal.com/the-festival-of-holi/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 05:47:38 +0000 Eliza Coleman http://thewonderlustjournal.com/?p=6240 The images above and the video below are from the Festival of Holi, also called the Festival of Colors. I really cannot claim to know anything about this festival (despite some basic research) other than that it is a Hindu tradition that involves throwing colored dust everywhere (awesome) and on some level celebrates the arrival of spring.

There are other, more complex and religiously-based parts to it also, so I don’t mean to over-simplify, but I have to be honest– the colors are the part I like.

And I have to believe that some of the 50,000 people that show up to the temple in Utah– yes, Utah– seen above to celebrate the festival might be there mostly for the colors too. (The temple doesn’t seem to mind the tourist/commercialization aspect, they sell t-shirts saying “I survived Holi, Spanish Fork, Utah.”)

Video (and stills) by Brian Thomson, and the music in the video is by cellist Zoe Keating.

If you need to see more of this thing (I did), there’s another good video of the same event here.

 

 

 

Also, it’s official, I have a thing for colored dust in the air (previously: 1, 2; and there’s another related post in the works!).

 

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