Monday, June 2, 2014

Vivid Festival






On Saturday I took the family down to the harbour to have a look at the Vivid festival. Vivid is a festival of light, sound and ideas. The idea behind it is that at night they have light and laser shows and they imprint images onto the sides of the city buildings including the opera house amongst others. The festival is mainly concentrated around the rocks area where a light show may be as big as a whole building as above or it could be as small as the lights above an alleyway as seen to the left.








Laser shows run up and down the buildings up until about midnight for a two week period at the end of may start of June.




The main feature of the show is the Sydney Opera House. It is certainly an impressive building at any time yet it really comes to life when they turn on the lights and music. Below is one of the only good photos I got of the opera house, I haven't really taken night photos before and most of them ended up being blurry. Need to take a stand next time to hold the camera steady.


Below is a short video I took on the night, mind my dodgey camera work as I got distracted at the start.

7 comments:

  1. Now that is a cool idea. I can imagine how much work is put into it.

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    1. yeah there must have been heaps of work to get all of this happening, what you see here is a very small part of the vivid festival. The kids loved it and I was pretty impressed too.

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  2. That looks incredible. I saw it featured on TV last weekend as well.

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    1. It was pretty cool. Do they do anything like this in Melbourne Jules?

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  3. Great photo of the Opera House.

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    1. You should see it live. If your in Sydney in the next week drop down and see it. You'd have to agree its pretty spectacular.

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  4. Wow, that looks fantastic. The photo of the Opera House is great. Some years ago (I can't remember the occasion) they projected a similar light show on to the side of one of the big cooling towers at Yallourn Power Station - that was very spectacular too.

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