Elevated (day 160)

I just got back from the opening of Vectorial Elevation, a public art work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.   There are large search lights, I think 9 on either side of English Bay.   The patterns of the lights are input from people around the world at http://vectorialvancouver.net.   I input a couple patterns tonight.  In total there will be time for about 130,000 patterns, no where near enough for the amount of interest it will probably generate but the queue resets every day which helps with the fairness aspect.  After you input a pattern, it tells you how long before you see it in the sky and will also send you a picture.

The feeling when you're standing underneath it is like a tent or a cathedral of light.  Also feels a bit like the northern lights.  It's nice that there is a pause between patterns, unlike search lights or promotion lights which just circle endlessly in the sky.  I can the tops of the lights from my kitchen window.  Sometimes the lights would go straight onto a highrise downtown.  That must have lit up some living rooms.  I think he mentioned fixing that bit of potential public annoyance.

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