Venice carnival 2010
I'm really, really late with this post, but I had a lot of photos and videos and not much time to arange them!
This is the third year of "Sensation" Venice Carnival (my old posts: 2009, 2008)... and I'm very bored with it! This theme doesn't inspire me any costumes!
Official calendar wasn't as great as last year, but I liked 'Insects', however I have to say that I didn't saw many official shows this year because I had less time to go to Venice daytime. Luckily some ideas and shows were the same of last year, for example Invasati, and Piazza San Marco garden (my last year photos here), but I'm displeased because I lost Carillò show that seemed to be funny!
Something I really liked was the child performance for the Chinese New Year, beautiful!
Venice Carnival by night was, as always, messy and crowded, but it's in the evening that the best of handmade maskers come out, and I always want to chatch all of them before this parallel tradition goes to disappear.
I think that if the official calendar would plan some good night events for young Venetian people it would be better. Peolpe would had an aim instead of be packed on Rialto bridge for listening to disco music cds, and tourists finally could appreciate this side of Venice Carnival inspite of consider it some messy and drunken crowd!
Under the cut you could find my slideshows!
Some official Carnival photos.
Some traditional and professional maskers.
Some handmade and unusual maskers.
I'd like to focus on something I really liked, or i noticed:
Piazza San Marco Garden:
2009
2010
Chinese New Year show:
Videos:
Insects
Bouncy seesaw!
And... last but non least.......
CIOCCOKEBAB!!!
What? Cioccokebab! A Luscious Cremino chip in sponge cake with vanilla sauce!!!
"Cremino" is a delicious kind of chocolate with hazelnut taste: gianduia. (Original Cremino photo, Cremino history in italian).
MY COSTUMES
This year I didn't use this sample :(
Click on the image to read all the informations about this picture frame!
Also this year this costume had great success, and I'm very happy for this!!!
This year I wear my "Ceci n'est pas moi" costume to go to Venice and for the indoor parties I had to improvise 2 costumes using old clothes and masker-clothes: Gipsy and "Japanese style" schoolgirl.
In gipsy costume my shoes are really inappropriate, but I needed confortable shoes that evening!
And now something about "schoolgirl" costume, I arrange it in no time, so it isn't so good, but i liked to do the make up! For the eyes I was inspired by this MichellePhan youtube tutorial, but I'm not good with liquid eyeliner and fake lashes! So to obtain the "same" effect I drawed three black lines that seems to continue my lashes (example)... I think I had funny eyes :P.
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[Cross posted: carnival_venice (2010_08_02)]
LINK:
° Venice carnival official site.