Day 4688: Re-post of the "Liquid Shard" & China's Smart Drone.

   

"Weary": digital collage.

  

Want music?

    Click:  Big Mountain, Baby I Love Your Way.

 

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This is a re-post from August 7, 2016, one of my favorites.

I read about the Liquid Shard & had to go!

I texted a photo to Grandhunk # 3 and asked  ...

if he wanted to go Saturday & have lunch at Olvera Street?

He said yes. Actually, he said "sure, I'll ask Mom!"

 A few minutes later, a text from WW saying...

"I'll go and can drive."

Win, win & triple win in WW's car!

An hour, twenty minutes in traffic & we were there! 

I love LA! The buildings, the street art, the energy. 

Pershing Square, is a public park in downtown LA. 

One square block, bounded by 5th, 6th , Hill & Olive Streets.

 It's atop a huge underground parking garage, where WW parked.

And there it was, a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture comprised of ...

  

thousands of silver streamers, 

actually holographic mylar strips,  an eerie humming sound,

stretching 15,000 sq ft. across the park ...

rising & falling like some kind of mystical giant, 
hovering & slithering through the wind. 

   

The project, titled Liquid Shard, is the work of Patrick Shearn, president and co-founder of art collective Poetic Kinetics, who teamed up with AA Visiting School Los Angeles design program. 

The dazzling installation, which is strung up from 
the postmodern park’s purple bell tower, 
will be on view through August 11, 2016.

 

It's hard for pictures to do justice, so if time allows, 

the 2 minute video  here, has Keith Kurlander 
exploring the installation. Music by IdIoT-SaVanT.

 Or, I have posted some shorter videos of the shard 

on my Instagram account:  http://instagram.com/jlonginc

Great memories of a special day.

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Stubborn Spider, here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Killdeer

 

Friday's Cat Smiles ... 

Terry Runyon

Yayoi Kusama

Angela Smyth

James Maxwell