Normally I wouldn't go to these events on a bitterly cold winter evening. However, once you plan to leave a your home town for an indefinite period, your mentality changes and you try to do as many things as possible before you go, filling your memories with good and bad of the place till you return next time for a recharge.
Thirty installations were displayed across the city and I think I managed to see about half of them. First I headed to Mayfair. In Grosvenor Park was this installation called Brothers and Sisters a group of school children made from LED light ropes. Can you see their happy faces?
This is Oxford Circus, the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street, and main shopping area in London. Here, an installation called 1.8 London was floating 180ft above the ground.
位於牛津街與攝政街交界，掛在離地面180英尺高的展品是1.8倫敦。
The installation is a massive net sculpture inspired by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011, the 4th most powerful earthquake in the world since modern day recording began. Did you know the strength of that earthquake was so powerful that it sped up the earth's rotation and shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds? Well, you do now, and that's why this is called 1.8 London. The shape of the sculpture is based on data sets of the tsunami wave lengths rippling across the Pacific Ocean during. I didn't know it at that time, but the change in colour and patterns on the sculpture was controlled by the public via an app on their smartphone. All this represents the interconnection between human and nature and the effect it has on one another.
Next I went to Leicester Square where it was transformed to a fantasy park. Giant plant sculptures, trees and flowers were glowing in the dark, it was just so surreal.
#####And my final stop of the night was Piccadilly Circus, the heart of London. Busy 24 x 7 x 365, especially on Saturday nights when it's always packed with people. On this weekend, the roads were closed off for the festival allowing people to walk freely around. This is the view looking down towards Piccadilly.
最後我到皮卡迪利圓環，倫敦心臟地帶，無論任何時候都非常繁忙。這個週末因為燈影展關係，市政府更封閉附近的道路，讓遊人可以輕鬆地在街上欣賞展品。
My favourite installation the whole evening were these massive fishes along Regent Street and Piccadilly called Porté par le vent, or Worn by the Wind. These colourful fishes were lit by LED and changed colours as they danced gracefully in the wind throughout the evening. You can see them dancing in my video.
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