Hanging over the city like a flying mountain in a dream was an enormous building—a building with towers and buttresses and an arched roof. Crimson light poured from its windows. I tried to speak, to deny the miracle even as I saw it; but before I could frame a syllable, the building had vanished like a bubble in a fountain, leaving only a cascade of sparks.
—The Shadow of the Torturer
The highfalutin' speech around the Lighting to Unite project sounds a little twee, but the images are staggering. Yow.
[ETA: My Flickr set, and a rather better one. There were lots of people standing in the dark on the lawn around the cathedral, and to my surprise the artist was interacting with people pretty freely when he wasn't actively slotting the glass slides. The audience sighed over new images the way crowds do at fireworks. Shows continue tonight and tomorrow.]
4 comments:
They do this in France all the time. I wonder if it will catch on here.
So vivid! Way to click 'em....
Weirdly, seeing them as 'images' taps into a whole different set of associations versus seeing them live. Some of those faces are clown-creepy, only as thumbnails! And then there's the orange-blue enigma:
live==>wreath of flames
thumbnail==>crayon flower
enlarged==>S end of N-bound cat?!?
The blame lies with the grainy photo quality. Cheap digicam + unskilled photographer = "that's a picture of what, now?"
Wow, these are gorgeous! - Sunflake
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