To a midnight mob scene outside St. Stephen's Cathedral worthy of Times Square, add the firepower of Chinatown at its new year: firecrackers and cherry bombs detonating virtually in your pocket, even full-scale fireworks, launched, it seems, by the guy next to you.
Watching a bunch of drones being chased by lasers in pre-set sequences to music might be rather less scintillating, unless you're a big fan of large scale firework displays.
"I don't think it's been used in fireworks display of this scale anywhere in Australia before," Melbourne's lord mayor, Robert Doyle, told Fairfax radio on Wednesday.
In this study, we used an operational weather radar to quantify the spatial and temporal extent of disturbances caused by large-scale recreational fireworks in the Netherlands on New Year's Eve.
At midnight, a full-scale firework display was launched, with the rockets aimed horizontally at police.
By The New Yorker January 6 , 2014In his series "Explosions in the Sky," the photographer Nick Pacione offers a unique view of the chain reactions in a fireworks display, at a macro scale.
"In the past, there's been fireworks but not on this scale".
A symbol of luxury, the French chateau-style palace celebrated its 100th birthday in October with fireworks and a 12-foot scale-model cake.
The very opening is almost a parody of that coup d'archet, a unison, forte D in the first two bars that releases its tension in an orchestral firework of an excitably ascending scale in semiquavers in the third bar, and the whole movement is magnificently, swaggeringly confident.
The low spikes observed during the day, just before New Year's Eve could probably be attributed to smaller scale disturbance of birds when fireworks were sporadically lit.
