Vivid Sydney

Last Friday a small group of us headed into the city to see the lights and innovations of "Vivid Sydney: 2011", an event in downtown Sydney for the next few weeks that highlights (literally) ideas of new artists and designers.  The buildings were draped in projected colors and interactive artwork was scattered around the harbor and up through The Rocks markets.  One building had a screen where two people could play a game against each other, others had glow in the dark paint and a light flash would capture the silhouette of the people standing in front.  A set of stairs was made into a rainbow where each step was a different color, but only when someone walked on it.  There were even projections onto the opera house that changed and evolved as the night went on, and one on the Commons House building that made it seem like it was filling with water, changing colors, being built and then falling down (the same animations as was used in Prague on the clock tower for their celebration.)  After wandering around by the water for awhile, we went to The Rocks to see the fire throwing show, a timed-to-music fire cannon display that went off every hour and was pretty cool, but not as awesome as what we had pictured.  After that we went up to the markets and enjoyed some live music and warm caramelized cashews while browsing through the markets.   It was a relaxing Friday night in a city that I adore more and more every time I'm there.