100,000 LED Lights Illuminate a Japanese River
Tokyo Hotaru Festival 2012 took place recently, releasing 100,000 blue LED lights to float in the Sumida River. The bulbs rolled along the waves of the river bank, mimicking hotaru (the Japanese word for “fireflies”), for the festival that celebrates the Japanese tradition of watching fireflies float along a watercourse. The spectacular event lit up the waterway with a sparkling sapphire radiance against the night sky.
The solar-powered LED balls, known as prayer stars, were designed to illuminate when they came in contact with water and were provided by Panasonic, one of the event’s sponsors. At the close of the festival, the bulbs were gathered by giants nets and removed from the stream.
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Weapon of Mass Instruction
Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.
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Knowledge is the most dangerous and powerful weapon we have in the world.
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
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Holga iPhone Lens Case
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Never ignore a person that loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day you might wake up and realise that you lost the moon while counting stars.
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Torn Cloud Portals by Scott Hazard
Scott uses layered photographs to tear out infinitely recursive holes in spacetime of the captured setting, forming 3-dimensional plumes of smoke and clouds in 2d worlds.
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Literally bending the perception of space and time.
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The Knife by Maria Lujan
Beware the cruel, ginormous cardboard knife of fate, it’s a killer.
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Hyppäys by Rainer Sopanen, 1933
