The passion fun walk came at the right timing with the I Light Marina Bay events going on. Grace, Lis, bf and I enjoyed the nightscape with beautiful light art works by local and international artists and designers. Those light art works uses only energy-efficient lights with the aim to create awareness for energy saving technology.
The start point. It was quite messy in the beginning as we didn't know which direction to face since both side shows the start point.
Digital Origami Tigers by Chris Bosse from Germany
The crouching tiger is the first piece of art work we saw at the start point of the passion walk. Was it a coincident that 2010 is the year of tiger? Or did the artist already keep that in mind when designing? This piece of artwork combines lantern making methods with digital design and fabrication technology.
Jellight by Pascal Petitjean & Aamer Taher from Singapore
Personally, one of my favourite light art work. The message is that the jellyfish have decided to leave our overly polluted oceans and escape into the universe as UFOs. It's made up of helium air filled balloons and energy saving light bulbs giving direct illuminatons.
Overlooking esplanade and the business district area.
And I love Singapore's iconic merlion.
The Living! project by Sun Yu Li, Kenny Eng & Allan Lim from Singapore
Right outside One Fullerton, The Living! project is an installation of 3,000 recycled plastic cups which aims to invoke a sense of beauty and urban sustainability amongst Singaporeans.
The Whirlpool by Martin Klaasen, Shane Richardson & Pascal Petitjean from Singapore and Australia.
I didn't think much about this piece of light art work initially until I read about it and I find it totally cool. The lighting effects are created in a passive interactive way. There is a camera that captures the people passing by with the ability to detect whether the passer-by is a male or female. The statistics are processed and translate into the lighting effects. Whether the illuminated mini domes are blue (male dominance), pink (female dominance) or yellow (balance genders dominance) are statistics compiled over a certain time span and not a direct reactive lighting effect and thus the colours are unpredictable.
Singapore Flora by Warren Langley from Australia
Singapore Flora uses a sculptural as a base for base and creates lighting effects alluding to an assemblage of flowers within.
Looks like fireworks.
A series of photos taken at My Public Garden by TILT from France.
A total of 29 giant plant-like light sculpture of plants and enchanted flowers bloom in the darkness transforming Marina Bay into an imaginary landscape of a garden. I think this is our favourite and we were exclaiming at its' beautiful creations from far.
Thankful for the giant fan that cools me down a bit from the walk.
Human Tiles by OCUBO, Nuno Maya from Portugal and Carole Purnelle from Belgium
Like The Whirlpool, this is another interactive light art work. The patterns of the tiles are actually made of people's movement and colour of the clothes which are captured on video in real time and projected over the building wall.
Positive Attracts by Edwin Cheong from Singapore
The 9 heroes each have a famous quotes written at the base and ours is a quote from George Lucas. The artist has the belief that the optimism of our mental state of mind will effect a postitive outcome of our physical state.
Lumenocity Singapore by Sascha Crocker & Andrew Daly from Australia
An abstracted energy consumption map of the Singapore Central Business District (CBD) area. The colour of the lanterns makes up the miniature city equivalent to the amount of energy consumed and light pollution emitted, by a particular city block.
We reached the Helix Bridge!
Wattfish? by Meinhardt Light Studio Team (Dan Foreman, Cherry Wang & Zi Chang Lee)
This is a fun and interactive installation as we try to wind the reel to light up the "fishing line". It represents Singapore as a Fishing Village in the past and a glance into the future when modern materials and light sources are powered by people with human energy.
Finally we finished the fun walk and it's time to redemp the goodie bags...
... ice-cream, popcorn and candy floss.
Not that I want to complain but the goodie bag redemption point was really chaotic. The goodie bag wasn't even packed beforehand and the volunteers are rushing to dump the items inside as everyone queue to get the bag. Ended up some of us has items that the rest didn't have vice verse. Was kind of disappointed with this scene.
Eating the candy floss and ice-cream. Wish there's something more filing as I haven't even have my dinner yet. There's a free outdoor screening of Alvin and the Chipmunks but we didn't stay on to watch. Instead, went to the Asian Civilisations Museum for our Halloween Nights which I will blog in my next post. Overall, it's quite nice to see the colourful lights work if not I think we won't spend so long to complete the walk as we were taking photographs most of the time. Thanks Lis for this event and uploading the photos which is so frustrating at times when it hangs.
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