GLOW

What is glow you say?
Well... glow is a free, yearly festival organized by the government of Eindhoven. Since Eindhoven is -after all- the city of light, it kinda makes sense for a light-related event (or three) to take place here.
So, in short, GLOW is all about light. How to create art with light.

The thing took place over the course of a week, all over the city. You would find weird sculptures scattered around town, buildings transformed into huge canvasses for artists to show they audiovisual creations and an all around festive mood that could be felt in the air. The damp, freezing air.
The downside to a light festival in the street is that you actually need darkness to appreciate it. And darkness means November. And November -here- means cold and rain. Lots of rain.
To be fair, it didn't rain on sunday... but it did the other 6 days of the festival.

Anyway, I'm not here to complain about the shitty weather (though, for the record, I maintain it did make a difference in the quality of my pictures... I was just to busy freezing, getting wet and trying to keep the camera somewhat dry to actually think about taking nice pics), so without further ado here's some of my favorite shots from GLOW.


Laser bed, Philips light museum.


Totally trippy wall from the Philips museum.
This image is not really "real" though, cause it was just a laser randomly moving around, creating cool designs. The unreal aspect of the image comes from me using a long exposure for the shot, freezing -in a sense- the movement of the light.

Click on the read more link for more "glowy" images.

The town hall, transformed into a huge canvas for an impressive audiovisual show. Sadly, pictures cannot make the actual thing justice.


Light sculpture.


No idea what this is. The two things at the side are solar beds. They turned on and off, making the thing there literally glow.

And finally... The church! This one was quite impressive in person (the projection was also changing all the time) but looks pretty meh in pictures. This is the one installation I really wish I could have some more time to shoot. The weather was dreadful and it was just so full of people that I only worried about getting the shot and escape.



I should have tried some different lenses and other compositions, but I was really hating my life at the time. I'll post the (more interesting IMO) "backstage" pics from glow sometime this week. Promise.