Vivid Sydney

opera house seems like a pretty comfy place to sleep

Once a year, there's a fantastic light show in Sydney.  Vivid Sydney, as it's titled, takes luminescence to an urban level.  There were almost 50 exhibits centering around creativity and 'art'.  Now I'm no expert on art, but I can appreciate technology and innovation.  Seeing the city, at least the touristy parts, lit up was pretty enlightening (*badda bing*).  Some of the exhibits were interactive (pretty awesome).  There were big tic tac toes games, piranha bicycles, light up hopscotch,  and probably a few others I forgot to mention.  I also got pretty lucky, there was a break in the weather and I ventured out to check out the hubb bub.

i GUESS this is art

I bathed in the glow of the city for an hour or so.  Amazed by the feat of human engineering and creativity, there was one project that blew all of the others out of the water.  At the custom house, this happened:

before

after

SAY WHA??.. yeah, this.. this... i don't even know what to call it.  phenomenal. maybe mesmerizing is a more suitable word.

cue: OOOHH AHHHHH

So projectors light up this building and the amazing thing is the detail.  The building (structurally) has many columns, ledges, windows, etc.  When the projectors light up the building, it gets crazy.  As you can see in the picture, it's a bird eyes view of a city.  The whole image moves.  Yeah, the little cars drive around the blocks (defined around the building ledges), the sun rises and sets to change the lighting scheme, there's even a fly-by helicopter.  The columns, on the building, were projected as streets and tunnels, the clock turned into the city fountain.  It was too awesome, i doubt my words do it justice.  Then later, the projections change into a clock and then a cartoon and etc. Peep that crazy here .  don't gotta watch all of it but gotta admit, it's pretty awesome.

Everyday buildings were transformed into a canvas of whimsical nature.... I don't know if that made sense, but I'm pretty sleepy and it sounded pretty artys.

Anyways, I probably stayed in the same spot for 20 minutes.. just watching in awe, before continuing my tour.  Well, I wish could upload all the pictures I took but as you can see, uploading more than 3 pictures makes nullifies my formatting skills.  I'm looking forward to it next year; hopefully it'll be just as illuminating (not a great week for puns).