Video we took while meeting kids all around the world for our non for profit initiative, “My Petit Mundo”, meant to enable kids to open up to other kids living at the other end of the world cultural universe. To see all the videos: blogs.tv5.org For more details, see our blog on our media partner Website TV5 Monde (in French): blogs.tv5.org Or take a look at all the pictures we took from our encounters with the kids: blogs.tv5.org

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Traveling Home in 2008 (part 3 of 3) Shot and edited by JP Coakley. jpcoakley@gmail.com

High definition footage of Thai New Year water festival the Songkran madness 2008 with huge water splash. It is an annual event and local carnival for fun and play held in Chiang Mai Thailand in mid April. The original footage has been recorded with Sony HDR-SR7E digital video camcorder in M2TS format with a video size of 1920 X 1080 pixels. I used a Sony Vegas Pro version 8.0 and converted it into editable M2V format. To render the footage I used a blu-ray template 1920×1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream. Once converted into M2V file format I used Adobe Premiere Pro CS for easy and final video editing. To render the footage in Adobe Premiere I used export function and Adobe Media Encoder. I selected a preset of HDTV 1080i 29.97 high quality and the frame size of 1920X1080 pixels. To render a video of 09:00 minutes it took over 3 long hours. It was all well worth it as the final results were simply amazing. The picture quality is absolutely fantastic on my 40″ Sony Bravia and 5.1 audio is close to perfect. The Thai New Year (in Thai Songkran from Sanskrit sankrānti “astrological passage”) is celebrated every year on 13 April to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many other calendars in South and Southeast Asia. The date of the festival was originally set by astrological calculation, but it is now fixed. If these days fall on a weekend, the missed days off are taken on the weekdays immediately following. Songkran falls in the hottest time of the year in Thailand, at …

funny dancing guy.

I headed north to Chiang Mai from Bangkok via the over night train (sleeper) to experience Songkran (Thai New Year celebration). I had a blast! Afterward, I hopped on the 10 hour bus ride back to Bangkok to catch another bus to Trat (4 hour), and then make a connection via ferry to Koh Chang or Elephant Island (30 minutes). Koh Chang is very peaceful and green. I explored the island by moped.

The Songkran Festival is the official start of the Thai New Year. Many people travel to their home province to celebrate with family and friends. A state of emergency declared in 5 provinces isn’t dampening the fun in Chiang Mai. more at songkran2009.com

The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water. People roam the streets with containers of water or water guns, or post themselves at the side of roads with a garden hose and drench each other and passersby. This, however, was not always the main activity of this festival. Songkran was traditionally a time to visit and pay respects to elders, including family members, friends and neighbors.

This is the largest water fight on the planet. I took this video in Chiang Mai Thailand. This festival is every year April 13- 15. You have to see this.