On the red carpet...and a creepy man staring at me

 R examining his stubble

Lit up walkway

Optic Fibre lights

MCA from across the harbour

Holographic faces

Shouting lights

Lit up hopscotch 

Shadows and animations

Interactive imaging

More lights

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Angler fish rickshaws

Wandering people, and a mysterious blue light installation

Admiring the view

Igloo

Interaction

Rest

Giant chandelier

Tunneling

So when I compare it to last years posts here and here which Blogger has somehow pixellated (click on the photos to view the unhorrible versions), I realised that I took a whole lot more photos of people than the actual artworks on display. I think the main thing that makes Vivid such a cool event is not so much the lights and music on show, but the vibe in Sydney harbour; the inquisitive people buzzing about, laughing, critiquing and interacting with the installations. I can't think of any other situation where you can shout at a wall of lights with a crowd circling around you and not be labelled a loony.

Which is why I like the random photos I took of random people, often in random mid-conversations, like so:

While standing in front of the artwork above:
Dude #1: I don't know what the fucking shit this means.
Dude #2: Shhh....that's not nice...

Anyway I'd love to hear what you think :)
(About Vivid/the photos I mean, not the conversation...)

So these are from the last ever PBL session this semester (a biweekly tutorial  small group learning thing for anyone who is vaguely interested) which we decided to have at Honeysuckle Hotel on the foreshore (in Newcastle).  Anyhow it's been sort of amazing to have met this group of cazy awesome people and spend 6 hours a week, every week, in their company, learning". (In our case, the majority is spent going on irrelevant tangents about funny stories and sharing immature dirty jokes, but you didn't hear that from me.)

 It's impossible to express how much I've learnt from these people and how much appreciation I have for them, including our crazy englishman tutor, so i'm not going to try. But when you look forward to going to class at 4-7pm on a FRIDAY NIGHT then you know you got lucky.

So anyhow in true awesome style we ditched the material we were supposed to cover in the last session and just chatted, ate and drank by the water. Drinks were shouted (I had one too many vodka sunrises thrust at me), steaks consumed, embarrassing stories were told and general mirth was shared all around.

In other words, it's been a great semester. And if I manage to pass all my exams, it'll be even better!

 Bar Beach, Newcastle

On a fairly overcast day, a few weekends ago. Still can see the different shades of blue in the sea though.

On another note, study has officially started for finals. What joy. Have a couple of posts still lined up though!

Stay gold :)