Burning

A fire started out at about 11 am yesterday on the roof of a building in front of the central train station.

The black thick smoke could be seen from the street near to our house. Went nearer to take a look and saw that the whole block was fenced and the streets surrounding were blocked and 3 group of firemen were busy trying to stop the fire.

By the time at about 1700 hours, regardless of the firemen's effort to stop the fire, it had spread down to the appartment below and by 2230 hours the lower level's appartments started to catch the fire too.

Location : Turin, Italy

Chinese New Year In Turin Part 2

The excellent performance of the artist heated up the atmosphere and the audience awarded him with a long round of applauds.

The 3 days celebration concluded with the traditional chinese dragon and lion dance.

Chinese New Year In Turin Part 1

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, the chinese community in Turin together with the Rinascente Shopping center organised a 3 days events celebration.

I was only able to catch on time the third day's event, an exciting performance with fire. Followed by the chinese dragon and lion.

Location : Via Lagrange, Rinascente

Female Fire Performer

This woman was performing in piazza San Carlo in the evening, cleverly using the darkness as background and had presented a spectacular show.

The smell of kerosene was still unbearable....

Ephemeral Flame

CDP November theme Ephemeral.

The flash of flame went over the top of the pipe when Max was ready to take a puff after the pizza we had in the restaurant at piazza Carlo Alberto.

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Festival of the Solstice : The Five Elements

The five elements which surround us in our everyday life, earth, water, fire, air and spirit. 
Earth, the element which represents stability, firmness and resistance to changes.

In a concrete city, people tried to live a day in direct contact with natural earth by placing grass patches on the street at via Barbaroux.

Water,  an element which represents fluidity, flow and adaptation of changes in form, an element which provide nutrition.

In summer, water provide a sense of freshness under the hot sun, for people relaxing along river Po at Murazzi.

Fire, an element which represents energetic, forceful and heat. A destroyer by nature, yet under proper manipulation, it provides warmth, light and energy or even fun.

Playing with fire in an entertaining manner, at piazza Castello.

Air or wind, an element which represents movement, openness and freedom. An basic element for survival, expansion, the lack of it proved to be suffocating.

Air bubble is way of air controlling the movement within and outside of a body, along via Langrange.

Spirit, an element beyond physical,  represents a form of communication and ability.It can also be associated with power, creativity, spontaneity, and inventiveness.

Candles are often used as a form of offer, communication with spiritual world in various cultures.

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