Videos from Designldg

A moment in the middle of the road

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:26:35 +0000

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A few days ago I had to wait for someone in the chawk of Varanasi (Benaras).
It was one of the hotest day of the year, I was trying to be busy in order to forget the heat.
I found funny to stay in the middle of the road and to shoot this video.
There was not too much of traffic as it was early in the afternoon.
This is a slice of life in the oldest living city in the world where traditional and timeless people mingle with modernity...

An evening in Delhi

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:51:49 +0000

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An evening in Delhi.

In summer it's always fun to get an ice-cream on the Rajpath in New Delhi.
This is were stands the India Gate which was originally called the "All India War Memorial" and which is a monument built by Edwin Lutyens to commemorate the Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Afghan Wars.
In the sky those are not birsds but hundreds of huge bats who were flying in group but I don't know where.

This video was shot on a Sunday evening I was there with my friends Laxmi and Rajiv and my brother Manish.

An elephant on the road to Varanasi (Benaras)

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:43:08 +0000

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This morning we were driving back to Varanasi (Benaras) when we met this elephant on the road.

As it is my favourite animal I asked the driver to stop the car and I took a few pictures.

The tradition wants that people give some money to the haathi (elephant in Hindi) which is picking it up with his trump before giving it back to his mahout.

A mahout is a person who drives and look after an elephant.
The word mahout comes from the Hindi words mahaut and mahavat, derivatives of the Sanskrit word mahamatra, which means " having great measure."

Usually, a mahout starts very yound, usually at about ten years old, when he is assigned an elephant early in its life and they would be attached to each other for the rest of the elephant's life.

The training of a mahout is similar to a family business, passed down from one generation to the next.
The art of training an elephant is gradually becoming extinct as the job of a mahout is extremely difficult.

On the ghats of Varanasi

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:08:21 +0000

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I was walking on the ghats of Varanasi along river Ganga when this boat came nearby with some music on.
I remembered I could make a video with my little camera which I always keep in my pocket and I decided to try to catch this moment.
The quality is not very good as I am not really used to videos so far but I find in this one something which has a kind of 70 vintage touch that I find funny.
I hope that you'll enjoy it.

Traffic in Varanasi

nobody@ipernity.com (Designldg) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:31:58 +0000

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"The oldest living city in the world".

My first video over here, I did it with my picture camera so the quality can't be great.
However it was fun to do and to be able to show a basic street in Varanasi (Benaras).
I like the mix between people, style garments, cars, bikes and rickshaws which give the real mood of the city. I hope that you can feel here the blend of cultures, of religions and this contrast of modernity and tradition which make this place so special.

I shot it last week from a car window.