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For those of you nursing the results of a wee bit too much celebration from last night, you may want to just move on to the next post, because these will be New Year’s Fireworks.

It goes without saying that they are best viewed in Full Screen.  And some of them tend to be quite long, so fill free to skip forward.  And if your YouTube screen ends up white with a gray circle in the center containing a white exclamation mark – the “Gray Circle of Death” – it’s because your Flash Player is overloaded.  So be sure to only play one at a time, and stop it before you play the next one.

We’ll start with a quick, one-minute overview from around-the-world.  (And apparently SkyNews has one font setting: HUGE!)

 

This is a more in-depth view from London, New York, Dubai and Japan.  (No offense to all my Big Apple friends, but your Times Square New Year’s Eve fireworks pale in comparison to almost every other city.  OK, I did come across a kind of puny display from Reykjavik, Iceland – but what do you expect?)

 

This one is purported to be of the world’s largest firework shells – 48” diameter shells!  In Trump’s vernacular, it’s YUUUGGGEEE!

The first minute-and-a-half is them loading a shell in its 12 METER firing tube!  It’s a little boring after you’ve seen it a little while, so you can skip forward in jumps.  The actually firings are very impressive – but the video is pretty static, filmed from just one point of view.  So after you’ve seen a couple of them, you can skip forward also.

 

This is a nicely done series of still photos of New Year’s Eve fireworks from around the world, but put together as a YouTube video.

 

Apparently there’s a big competition between London and Sydney (or, as they spell for New Year’s Eve – SydNYE) when it comes to New Year’s Eve fireworks.  This is Sydney’s celebration in HD:

This is London’s celebration from the BBC in HD – I think it’s the best display of them all as it’s very professionally done. 

And if you prefer to just look at pictures of the rivalry, “Daily Mail” has a nice series:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3380869/London-s-New-Year-s-fireworks-display-rivals-Sydney-s.html

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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  6 Responses to “Friday Fun – HAPPY NEW YEAR!”

  1. Wooo Hooo!  That's bringing in the year with a bang!

    • When I was stationed in Okinawa (it was part of Japan as it is today – I am not THAT old), I lived off base, in a house on a creek bank, on the other side of which creek was a local park.  New Year's Eve was interesting.  Every hour on the hour, 15 minutes of fireworks, starting at dark and going up thro/ugh midnight.  It made for some disjointed conversations, but when you can have fireworks, who cares, right

  2. I had the pleasure to see Sidney's fireworks almost live on TV, as Sydney (NSW) is on daylight saving time this time of year, but (sub)tropical Queensland where we stay, isn't, so QLD's TV stations start showing the fireworks an hour behind Sydney itself. It was momentous, but at the same time we couldn't help but think that this is AUD 50 million literally blown to the high heavens, leaving this equally humongous CO2 footprint and other air polution. It was beautiful, it really was, but as only a happy few (1.5 million Aussies) could see it live anyway, why don't we restrict firework to one town per country?

  3. Wonderful!

    Happy New year to all!

  4. Thanks!

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