Pilgrims

24 hours in pictures:

Puskar, Rajasthan: Pilgrims visit the world's largest cattle fair. The festival hosts about 50,000 camels, which are sold, decorated, shaved and raced Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

Leningrad Cowboys with the Red Army Orchestra and Choir - Happy Together

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The Leningrad Cowboys, in concert with the Red Army Orchestra and Choir, singing Happy Together in their legendary concert in Helsinki’s Senate Square at the end of the cold war in 1993. From the Aki Kaurismäki documentary Total Balalaika Show.

This is so freakin' awesome. What happened?

Big thanks to The Chawed Rosin for brightening my morning.

watch the original here
another favorite version here

Night at the Fair

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