I was in Helsinki on Friday night, with a few hours to kill before I had to get up and leave for the airport.  Friday (8-22-09) was Helsinki Night of the Arts, and me and about 100,000 of my closest friends packed into the Helsinki streets for an all-night party–I didn’t stay out that long.

The French street theatre company, Plasticiens Volants, put on a show in Senate Square, complete with all sort of sea creatures.  I’ve not seen anything like that before.

It was wall-wall people, but I managed to work my way up front, but lost the group I was with in the process.

Senate Square

Here’s a very short, very quickly produced video of the event.  I ended up next to the speaker stacks, which could explain why I couldn’t hear well the next morning, so the sound during some segments wasn’t salvageable.  In any case, this should give you an idea of what it was like.

Video

• Windows Media (WMV)
• H.264 (MP4)