I went to the Glow festival in Eindhoven with friends yesterday. It was nice seeing these friends and it was also nice to do the festival route with others rather than being alone in the crowd. But I feel the festival is getting by on its reputation alone (it was very busy), as there weren't any big art installations that you'd remember afterwards (the laser projected water monster of some years back!). Some highlights were the smaller or more low key things:
I liked a very small installation where the artist was peddling to turn a wheel that moved an elaborate series of chains that had figures mounted on them. A lamp shone on these and the shadow play was projected on the wall.
The lights that jumped out of the river as if they were little fishes were also very cute. My friend said it was probably done with automatically igniting phosphor, I thought they could just be well-timed waterproof led lights, but she's a chemist and I'm an electrical engineer.
The butterflies that you walked underneath were also great, mainly because they were so beautifully done.
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