As Andy mentioned in the previous post, he is away till March and this blog is the space for us to exchange and bounce ideas off each other.
His post on Light and Inspiration, got me to be pro-active and inspired me to do a little research on my own.Thanks Andy!
This is what I found -
Eden Project
Bruce Munro is a UK based lighting designer known for his well-crafted, large scale sculptural light works and installations. His piece called Field of Light is inspired by the beautiful displays of flowers that burst forth from Austratlia’s desert landscape. Munro conceived of the installation many years ago, on a road trip across Australia.
Every night, he would stop to rest at roadside campsites, where the grass and surreal sculptures struck a stark contrast to the surrounding red desert. Fascinated by this phenomenan of dormant seeds bursting into beautiful flowers when it rained, Munro carried this idea with him back to the UK, where he finally brought it to life in a fantastic installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
More of his work can be viewed here
Lacrime del Pescatore – Light Installation by Ingo Maurer
Ingo Maurer is a German industrial designer, who specialises in the design of lamps and light installations. Apart from creating the sensation of being underwater, in the vicinity of shipwrecked treasure; hat struck me most was the scale and the use of space, in this piece. It is made of a series of three fisherman’s nets studded with more than 300 crystal drops.
White Noise / White Light
White Noise / White Light was one of 9 temporary interactive urban installations commissioned and installed for the Athens 2004 Olympics at base of the Acropolis as part of the Catch the Light Program. The project inserted a luminous interactive sound and landscape within the plaza to create a constantly choreographed field in flux. Semi-flexible fiber-optic strands responded to the movement of pedestrians through the field, emitting white light and white noise. Activated by the passersby, the fiber optics transmit light from white LEDs while the speakers below the raised deck emit white noise. Just as white light is made of the full spectrum of light, white noise contains every frequency within the range of hearing in equal amounts. This field of white noise creates a unique sound-scape in the city and masks out the noises from the immediate context, forming a place of sonic refuge within the bustling city. Each stalk unit contains its own passive infrared sensor and microprocessor. If motion is detected, the white LED illumination grows brighter while the white noise increases in volume. Once motion is no longer detected, the microprocessor smoothly decreases the light and fades the sound to silence. The movement of pedestrians creates an afterglow effect in the form of a flickering wake of white light and white noise, trailing and tracing visitors as they cross the field. Depending on the time of day, number of people, and trajectories of movement, the project is constantly being choreographed by the cumulative interaction of the public. The field becomes an unpredictable aggregation of movement, light and sound. (source – www.worldarchitecturenews.com)
more soon.
happy weekend.
