Purnama or Full Moon Ceremony in Pura Segara Penimbangan

chilli

thankyou :)

Kadek

Thanks for taking and putting up that Odalan video up Bert :D Indeed, this reminds me of home so much and it made me even more home sick :( Regards, Kadek

Bert Vierstra

Glad to be of service, Kadek :mrgreen:

mimpimanis

I had it buffering for about an hour and watched maybe 7/8 minutes. I will try again tomorrow....

tintin

EXCELLENT! Thanks a lot, Bert, it made my evening. :) :)

Bert Vierstra

In very low resolution: [youtube:ms9yi925]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lYQzr9Zjnk[/youtube:ms9yi925]

Jimbo

Bert Have you ever thought of adding a few strings to your bow and making a business out of this. I appreciate it is trite but Bali Weddings come to mind, submitting freelance to travel companies another and of course lots of private work. When we buried my father in law we had a professional film made and the quality although not bad could have been vastly improved by modern methods and equipment.

Roy

IMHO Jimbo, a disgusting idea. Our wedding was filmed and made into a video by Jungle Run Productions. The end product is a first rate National Geographic film, and made by, and for, very personal reasons. There is NO way we will ever allow that ceremony to be a cash cow!

mimpimanis

I have our wedding on VHS and am trying to find somewhere to get it transferred onto DVD.... anyone know anywhere?

Roy

Obviously, you are not listening! :shock: And Again! Jungle Run Productions in Ubud! BTW, Joe Yaggi has won the Berkeley Film Festival Award for his amazing film, “Crossing the Borneo.” He filmed the first group to have ever done this by white water rafting.

mimpimanis

[quote]Obviously, you are not listening! And Again! Jungle Run Productions in Ubud![/quote] You said they filmed your wedding, not that they can transfer VHS to DVD...... If I can't find anything down south I will give them a try. Thanks

calitobali

I see plenty of places around that do that. I would suggest "dubbing" the original copy of the tape to another copy just in case anything goes wrong. The only place I can actually picture in my head right now would be a little internet spot on JL Benesari in Legian, near Kups Corner.

Bert Vierstra

When I first came to live in Bali about 6 years ago, and I was still recovering from witnessing my first mass cremation, people of the village where I lived took me to a Purnama (Full Moon) Ceremony in their family temple. Like any other "stupid tourist" I was dressed up and looked a bit lost between the people who knew the ongoings so well. There, under the light of the full moon, I was totally undone by the chanting and praying. I think I fell in love with every Balinese girl I saw that evening. The movie linked below is made on october 14th 2008 in Pura Segara Penimbangan and shows the crowds attending a Full Moon ceremony, in and around the temple. The particular full moon ceremony on this date is called Purnama Kapat, and is celebrated only once a year, but (smaller) Purnama ceremonies are held every full moon in family temples. This North Bali temple is just a kilometer from where I live. The praying has to be done in groups, since not all people from the villages around fit into the temple at once. Most praying groups start entering the temple at around sunset, and this goes on until around 12 o'clock midnight, but praying is actually going on for 3 days. Even now at 11 o'clock in the morning, next day after shooting the movie, I can hear the chanting from the temple. I find the atmosphere overwhelming, and its only disturbed now and then by people trying to speak English to me (or gossiping in Balinese about my past in North Bali), but I must admit walking around with a camera and pushing it in peoples faces, how small it may be, doesn't really help to blend in.... People who experienced this kind of ceremony before will notice that the actual praying is missing. Afterall I became Hindu before marrying my Dewi, and I couldn't get it over my heart not to pray with my "neighbors", shooting the praying would have made me feel too awkward, at least this night. But, this ceremony is repeated every year, so maybe I will spend some of the evening as a total outsider one day, to get it all, and with a tripod this time. Link to the movie in High Definition: http://www.vimeo.com/1969640 (for people with slow connections, please pause the movie, and wait until the progress bar has advanced, and press play) For the courageous people, download the original movie, link is on the Vimeo page. You will need a reasonable fast pc with Windows Media player installed. Panoramas shot by me from some time ago around Nyepi (Hindu New Year), near the same temple: http://www.bali3d.com/nyepi-before.php The temple on Wiki Mapia: http://wikimapia.org/1832246/Pura-Penimbangan I think this movie will be highly appreciated by Balinese living overseas ;) since it is not one of the "commercial" things you see often portrayed, this is the real, local, thing. Shot with handheld Sanyo Xacti HD1000, mostly with 0.45 "digital vision" lens attached, a lens with horrible (edge) sharpness, especially when zoomed in. Simple edit with Sony Vegas, saved as 1280x720 wmv with total bitrate of 2388kbs. Upload time of 165mb to Vimeo about 4 hrs with Telkom Speedy, without retries because of lost connections this time....

mimpimanis

Thanks Cali. Got to go to Kuta in a few days and will check it out. Sorry, for hijacking your thread Bert :oops:

Jimbo

Roy Not for the first time I have no idea what you are talking about. It is quite common to have you wedding filmed and photographed so that you have a record in future years. I cannot understand why you think it is such a bad idea. Perhaps you read something into my post that was not intended.

Bert Vierstra

[quote=Jimbo]Bert Have you ever thought of adding a few strings to your bow and making a business out of this.[/quote] I just do it for fun Jim, when I have the time... Enough to do!