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You won't believe it, until you see it: Pedvale park

PEDVALE PARK OF MODERN ARTS

Imagine you're walking in a park and suddenly you are struck by the feeling that something is slightly wrong. Stones are growing on the tops of wooden poles. Some huge rock has just fallen down in a green field causing those circular waves you see when you throw a small stone in a puddle. You look to the left and there's a weird wooden sculpture spewing real flames and the heat from the flames makes a bunch of other, even weirder mechanisms rotate. Suddenly out of nowhere a long column of naked joggers appears and passes right by you. You could reach out and touch them. Well, maybe you don't want to touch them. You look to the right and there's the forest, only the trees are growing upside-down with their branches sticking into the ground. Then you cross this little river and find a huge piece of ice (it's mid July and +30 in the shade) hanging on a rope and there's a fire burning underneath it. And, of course, your eyes can't ignore a huge, 20 feet diameter blazing wooden ball that's rolling down the hill and disappearing into the river. And (as if that's not enough) there's this crash-landed Ikarus cussing and trying to fix his badly broken wooden wing. He's naked, confused and a bit dusty because of the impact against Mother Earth. You wish David Lynch was by your side so he could explain what's going on. Chances are he isn't so you'll just have to ask yourself: „For God's sake WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? It means you're in Latvia, man! It means you're in the only open-air modern art park in the world set up by artist Ojars Feldbergs and called Pedvale. And most likely you are like „Holy ****!!!!. And most likely it means that our slogan Latvia. You won't believe it until you see it. is right on.

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Author of the art exposition Man in the boat - Artist Kalvis Zālītis

Ēriks Stendzenieks, Zoom

Welcome to Latvia

Latvijas institūta un Vides filmu studijas sadarbībā ir tapusi Latvijas video vizītkarte Welcome to Latvia. Šis 5 minūšu video klips ir muzikāls ceļojums šodienas Latvijā, kura mērķis ir radīt pirmo iespaidu par Latviju. Video vizītkarte parāda saistošu un dziesmas noskaņai atbilstošu, nedaudz romantisku skatu uz mūsdienīgo Latviju.

Video klipā skan Prāta Vētras dziesma Welcome to my Country (Sveicināts manā zemē!).

Featuring the song Welcome to my Country by Brainstorm.

Latvia is in the heart of Europe and on its way to meet the challenges of the 21st century. This 5-minute video takes you on a musical tour of Latvia today the people and the very special places that make it one of the Baltic Sea's natural and cultural treasures.

Blue cow - Latvia - You wont believe it

That's right. They're blue. They're not painted. They're not fed with ink. They're just naturally blue. So bluish-blue I just can hear „It's raining men playing in the background. Some people say that color of their skin (and also -- the incredible amount of milk) comes from sea water they drink for generations and that's why they (cows) are called „Sea-cows.