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The breeze hits my face as I stand on top of a hill over looking the palm trees of bay front Miami.
Surrounding me are half naked bodies bouncing with rainbow colored
beads, splashes of neon color, fuzzy leggings, men with daisy hats, Chinese dragons, massive amounts of fog, multi colored lasers beaming from the stages, and inflated white tentacles all dancing and pulsing to a soundtrack of epic proportions.
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Neon coated females
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Ultra Music Festival spans over the course of two days, held in
Miami's
Bi Centennial Olympic Park the festival hosts over a 100 djs divided
among eight stages and more than 50,000 patrons, turning the park grounds into a haven for urban arts and music.
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Canadian flag
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Ultra Music Festival provides a common ground for musicians, artists, and fans from all types of backgrounds and ethnicities.Adorned with glow sticks and national flags party patrons from Brazil,
England, Spain, Portugal, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Germany, and all
over the globe gather together to enjoy the sounds of beats remixed, modified, and synthesized over a bass line of a drum machine.
Forming a unique youth culture from music birthed in the underground, brought directly into the main stream.
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The Rave Policeman
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Ultra Music Festival can be viewed as the Woodstock of the digital
millennium, giving everyone an opportunity to experience and listen to
new music and meet people from all walks of life.
Breaking performance from headline artists such as:
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Simian Mobile Disco
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Simian Mobile Disco: one of the best dance performances of all, where a
man dances with a rubber ball and eventually immerses himself into it.
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The Prodigy
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The Prodigy: my favorite artist above all
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Black Eyed Peas
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Black Eyed Peas: Pop and dance
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Armin Van Buuren
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Armin Van Buuren: Smooth and Dreamy
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Crystal Castles
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Crystal Castles: Full of attitude and Punchy
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Dj Icey
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Icey: Epic and Hip
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Carl Cox
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Carl Cox: Synthesizer Mastermind
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Pendulm
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Pedulum: drum and bass
Along with many other great artists too many to list.
Merchandise and fashion was available at the bohemian market place
where attendees could purchase disposable cameras,
Ultra brand gear,
summer dresses,'I am in Miami bitch' t-shirts, cd's, and jewelry.
Among the different vendors, is the
Global Inheritance trashed
recycling store where attendees can use plastics bottles and aluminum
cans to barter for a variety of goods from the new 'green' stamps fetch i-Pods, Netflix® memberships, Bindi Desserts, to Camel-bak bags.
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Pieces of art/ Recycling bins
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Adjacent to the store
was
Global Inheritance Tour De Energy
Exhibit, demonstrating how electricity could be generated then stored
into a 12 volt battery by peddling a bicycle.
The TRASHed Art of
Recycling campaign where plain recycling bins are transformed into canvasses for unique pieces of art.
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Bayfront Miami
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Gorgeous weather, beautiful people, cutting edge fashion, and killer
music warped up in a multi cultural pancake served on the sands of
Miami beaches: glazed over with live shows and dashed with a hint of Miami's fire hot Latin flavor.
Ultra Music Festival was an experience packed with great performances
and gorgeous light shows, hyped up energy from the crowd, and lots of dance, dance, dance.
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Dancing man
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Definitely an experience that I will not forget and a party that I will look forward to attending next year.
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Chinese dragons
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Green lasers
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Girl on stage
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Main stage
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Dancer on stage
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White tentacles
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Daisy man
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Kid b-boy
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Blue and white
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Location: Bicentennial Olympic Park
1075 Biscayne Blvd
Maimi Florida USA
Dates: March 27 & March 28
Ticket
Pricing
: Ga $130 &
VIP $350
For more information: http://www.ultramusicfestival.com/
* a special thanks to all the PR's at Ultra, Rob Lateiner and Adrian Owens for photography.
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