World Bodypainting Festival 2010 - Seebodon/Austria

World  Bodypainting Festival 2010 will be held in Austria from July12th 2010 to July 18th 2010. This festival attracts a lot of people from around the world. Artist from 40 different countries show cast their talents. This festival began in 1988.  This festival also includes

• WBF Academy
• BodyCircus And Side Events
• 3 Main days in the “Bodypaint City” in the Klauberpark Seeboden

Mobile And Laptop Expo 2010 Chennai

The mobile and laptop expo 2010 will be held in Chennai. The dates for the expo is from 23rd July to 25th  July 2010. If you are planning to buy laptop or mobile or some other gadgets it will be the best place for you. One can find a lot of mobile manufacturers, laptop manufacturers and also the latest hardware equipments, wireless and mobile accessories and lot more  at a single place. The mobile and Laptop expo 2010 will take place at Chennai Trade Center

Stijin Pieters: Durga Puja

Stijn Pieters is a self taught freelance photographer based in Gent, Belgium whose work focuses on under-reported social, political and environmental issues. He completed projects in Nepal, Kashmir, Palestine, Northern Ireland, Swaziland, Yemen, Morocco, Iran, Vietnam, The Philippines, India and Bangladesh; most of which tackle diverse issues, from HIV/aids in Swaziland to the pervasive gun culture in Yemen, from Agent Orange victims in Vietnam to stateless people in Bangladesh.

For his projects in Yemen in 2006 and Morocco in 2007, Stijn received respectively grants from the Pascal Decroos Foundation and the King Baudouin Foundation. His work has been published in Belgian magazines like MO*, Vrede, Menzo, Tertio, Vacature, Varen and Isel Magazine.

The above slideshow is on the Durga Puja in Bangladesh, and is very nice work by Stijn. It's an annual Hindu festival in South Asia that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga. You can click on it for a full screen experience.

The most celebrated Durga Puja is in Calcutta where more than 2000 pandals (temporary structures...like thrones) are set up for the populace to venerate. Durga Puja in Calcutta is often referred to as the Rio Carnival of the Eastern Hemisphere.