What all can you do with ice? Can you make it sing? Can you make music instruments out of it? Tim Linheart has done just that. He founded the Ice Music Project 15 years ago, and since then the sleepy, snowy town of Luleå, in Sweden, has been the site of his incredible ice orchestra [...]
So how many of you like to do bird watching? You know, just sitting with your buddies at cafes or restaurants and checking out girls, laughing and having a good time! Smiling are we? Well, in case you have forgotten the original meaning of bird watching, let us remind you that it involves observing the [...]
“Just once, I want my life to be like an 80s movies.” said Emma Stone in the movie Easy A. Or nineties. Or the 2000s. We all have our favourites, don’t we? We’re all guilty of having fantasized about what life would be like if it played out like the movies that we love so much. [...]
Is it a balloon? Is it a bounce house? It’s an inflatable concert hall! Performers go on tour, instruments go on tour, even stage sets go on tour, but a concert hall going on tour? That’s got to be a first! Not sure if it’s equipped to travel the world yet, but it’s ready to [...]
Let’s fly away up to the clouds Away from the maddening crowds… Let us leave the confusion and all disillusion behind Just like bird of a feather, a rainbow together we’ll find. ~ Franco Migliacci in Volare This autumn, it’s adventure season in the hills. Last week, we told you about the marathon in Shimla. [...]
There is probably no one who hasn’t watched Disney cartoons as a child; who hasn’t rushed through homework to be able to watch the Disney show in the evening. We have all grown up trying to imitate Donald Duck’s quack(y) tone or Goofy’s chuckle. If you share the sentiment, there is much to celebrate and look forward to this [...]
“If you have ever learned some poems, they will come in very handy if ever you are imprisoned,” - Aung San Suu Kyi For a country not known for welcoming either outsiders or debate, hosting a literary festival is an exciting event. Even the great classics are censored when they do mange to make their [...]
It’s a scene right out of the Middle Ages, as hordes of Vikings, wielding battle axes and shields, set fire to a galley ship and watch it go up roaring in flames with a wild delight. You’ll be surprised then to hear that all of this took place just three days back, on Tuesday, January [...]
“Paris is always a good idea,” Audrey Hepburn is famously supposed to have said. And the same may very well hold true for Goa. Fabulously popular with tourists, both from India and outside, Goa’s beaches and party circuit have always attracted crowds and the place seems in no danger of loosing its appeal anytime soon. [...]
With 10 successful editions in the past, the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) has steadily but surely gained its reputation and is now an event that attracts both practitioners and fans of cinema in big numbers. In its 11th edition this year, the festival began with much fanfare yesterday, the 10th of January, when it [...]