The Scissors Dance in Peru

Made in central and southern highlands of Peru, the Scissors Dance is a traditional event that tests the physical and spiritual strength of the participants.
Westerners generally refer to “The Dance of the Scissors” as a physical test in which two men have to demonstrate their skill and endurance of pain, but for the people of the Andes, this dance is a sacred ritual . The dancers, called danzaq, perform difficult tricks and jumps, they call this Atipanakuy, accompanied by the music of a violin, a harp and the sound of the scissors which each holds in his hands.

Cities and sculptures made of gelatin

Liz Hickok is a San Francisco artist who expresses her talent through unique works of art made with gelatin.
Liz always worked in photography, video and sculpture, but discovered that her favorite artistic medium is gelatin. Everyone, from time to time, we crave a few spoonfuls of this delicious shaky, but Liz Hickok prefer to use gelatin in their work instead of eating. His “San Francisco gelatin” received major media like The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine and others

Kirkpinar: A festival of wrestling in oil

Since 1357, the Kirkpinar, a festival where participants must fight against each other completely covered in oil, is the oldest event in the wrestling world, attracting fighters from all over oiled Turkey, and beyond.
Oiled wrestling is one of the most popular sports in Turkey, and is considered by many to be the manliest sport on Earth, so it’s no wonder that more than 1,500 oiled Turks meet each year in a green field near Edirne, for a seven-day event which shows who the best fighter on earth oil.

Festival ready in Germany

Interesting series of photos from the annual German festival ready which is called the Wave-Gotik-Treffen

The opening ceremony of the 16th asian games

Friday evening, November 12 in the Chinese city of Guangzhou was a colorful opening ceremony of the 1916 Asian Games. Most ambitious in the history of the Asian Games started and will last till November 27.

In the Olympics, preparations for which took six years, will bring together around 10 thousand athletes from 45 countries and regions in Asia will compete for 463 sets of medals in 42 sports.