Watch Or Create A Vancouver Lightshow
February 8, 2010
This is so cool.
You chance to create your own Vancouver lightshow on the internet and let the rest of the world see it.
And if you don't want to do that you can just watch Vancouver lightshows created from all over the world.
It is all part of an interactive website - Vectorial Elevation - that allows people to transform the sky over Vancouver using a three-dimensional interface.
The website lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay in Vancouver.
Once completed a web page is made for each person that participates.
As well there will be photos of the light sculptures design from four cameras located around Vancouver.
The whole concept is available to everyone in Metro Vancouver and the world.
And each and every one of these personally designed lightshows will be available for everyone to see on the internet.
How cool is that.
Each of the lights is 10,000 watts strong and the lightshows can be seen within a 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) from Vancouver's downtown core.
This is one of the largest interactive artworks and was created by Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Organizers estimate 130,000 different patterns will be created in the 24 days the project operates from dusk to dawn.
And more than two million people are expected to see the lightshows in person in Metro Vancouver and on the internet.
So go ahead and create or watch those Vancouver lightshows.
Here is a cool example of what the lighshow looks like by a Vancouver blogger.
All Those Wonderful Super Bowl Ads Are Here
The numbers are staggering.
More than 100 million people watched the Super Bowl.
But what is even more staggering is how many people watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials that air during the game.
At least 51 per cent of all TV viewers do it for one reason and one reason only - to watch those commercials.
And this year interest in the commercials was especially high. More so than in past years.
