British Nights

Cardiff At Night
by Maciej Dakowicz


Hungry: Nightclubbers enjoy fast food amid mounds of rubbish after a night on the town


Benched: A woman holds court with four friends


Just resting: One party-goer slumps against the wheel of a police van


Get a room: A kilted man and his lover share a kiss among the burger wrappers


Pretty in pink: A reveller hikes up his skirt and hops over a barrier during a late night out


Soft landing: This rugby fan takes a tumble into a pile of discarded take-away cartons


Midnight snack: A punter enjoys some late night food, but his friend seems exhausted by the very thought of it


Oh what a night: This dustbin seems the perfect place to catch your breath on a rowdy night out


Forty winks: One man picks a spot for a nap - right next to an overflowing dustbin


Wake up! A woman tries to rouse a sleeping man


Late debate: Two young women huddle together in a draughty-looking bus stop


The leaning tower of rubbish: A man carefully balances a pizza box on top of an overflowing bin


Golden days: There's no age limit on a night out


Bloodied: An injured man staggers across the street


Ending in tears: A girl consoles her friend as they perch on a littered pavement


How do I look? Two men enjoy a show from a scantily-clad clubber in the early hours


Not so innocent: Two girls dressed in Heidi-style outfits take a breather while the police look on


She's got some front: A hen party gets saucy for the camera


First aid: A bleeding reveller is tended to on the street


Pub crawl: A man makes unsteady progress as he crosses the filthy pavement

Entropa - With malice towards all

The Czech Republic commissioned an artwork to celebrate 6 months of its presidency of the European Union. While the work was expected to represent artists from all 27 EU member nations, as it turns out that the installation called Entropa was created by an all-Czech team of artists under the direction of David Černý.

Entropa plays on steretypes and pokes fun at one and all.


Austria as an energy powerhouse.

Belgium is a box of chocolates.


Bulgaria is represented as Turkish toilets.


Czech Republic is an electronic (LED) display quoting the President.

Denmark is a Lego-set.


France is a country on strike.


Finland is a hardwood floor.

Germany is crisscrossed by autobahns, in what some say a vaguely Swastika-like pattern.


Greece is a nation riddled with wildfire.

Hungary is a nuclear think-tank with ripe watermelons.

Ireland is a bagpipe.

Italy is just a large football ground.


Latvia is mountaneous country.

Luxembourg is a gold nugget on sale.


Malta is a rock with a dwarf elephant standing on it.

The Netherlands is submerged under water, with only some islamic minarets visible above the floodline.


Poland is shown as a pile of rubble, wherein some Catholic monks are erecting the gay flag, Iwo Jima style.


Portugal is a butcher's table with steak and colonial blood on it.

Romania is a Dracula-themed fun-park.


Spain is a large building site, in an obvious reference to its real-estate market.


Sweden is depicted as an IKEA ‘flat-pack’ cardboard box. But from a hole towards the bottom of the box, one can see a small piece from the Saab JAS-39 Gripen aircraft - a reference to the 2001 bribery scandal wherein Saab tried to sell 24 Gripen jets to Czech Republic with the help of UK-based BAE Systems.

The United Kingdom is represented by its conspicuous absence from the piece.

Click here to download the artists' concept document.

As you can see, I don't have photos/ descriptions of all the nations' representations. Therefore, if you have photos or information, I'd appreciate if you could share it here.

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Happy Janmashtami

Janmashtami is celebrated to welcome and enjoy Lord Krishna's birth.

According to some scholars, Krishna was born on Wednesday,the eighth day of second fortnight in Sravana month in the year of Visvavasu around 3227 BC, also known as Dwapur Yug. July 19th 3228 BC, according to the Gregorian calendar.

Lord Krishna was born in a prison cell in the captivity of King Kansa. Soon after the birth, a chain of events astonished father Vasudev, when he saw the gates of the cell flow open and all the guards fast asleep. He immediately thought of Nand ,his close friend in Gokul and decided to handover his child to him in order to save him from the clutch of Kansa.

Father Vasudev taking Krishna to Gokul on the stormy night through a flooded Jamuna, while the great snake Sheshnag shades the child from the pouring rain.


With foster mother Yashoda


Sucking the lifeblood out of demoness Putna who was trying to poison him with her poison-laced breastmilk


Foster mother Yashoda sees the universe in the mouth of the child


Stealing butter stealthily from foster mother Yashoda's kitchen


With (foster) brother Balram and other shepherd kids


With (foster) brother Balram


Taming the evil serpent Kalia


With (foster) brother Balram, beating the demon league of Dhenukasura, after Balram has killed the demon king himself


Picking up the Mt Govardhan with his little finger to save the villagers and crush the pride of the rain-God Indra


Playing the flute for a devotee


Viraat roop (divine form), to explain to Arjuna the divinity of the soul during Geeta


Sounding the battle conch, with Arjuna


As Arjuna's driver in the war


Battle-raged Krishna going for Bhishma, with Arjuna pleading him to stop (Krishna had pledged not to fire a weapon in the war)