{"id":760,"date":"2013-08-28T00:09:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2013-08-28T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:10:19","slug":"singapore-night-festival-2013-night-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/singapore-night-festival-2013-night-lights","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Night Festival 2013: Night Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3702\/9609155340_e27faa8ff0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Magic Melody\u201d, an interactive video mapping projection on the Singapore Art Museum being reflected over the reflecting pool of the Bras Basah MRT Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Like last year, this year&#8217;s Singapore Night Festival also features several light installations spread over the festival grounds. This year, some of the installations introduced interactive elements, allowing the visitors to be a part of the artwork instead of just being passive displays. Here are some of them I visited over the last weekend. The installation will be on display again on 30-31 August 2013 from 7pm to 2am. For more details, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brasbasahbugis.sg\/SNFPortal\/faces\/oracle\/webcenter\/portalapp\/pagehierarchy\/Page6.jspx?detContId=NHBSVRAPP61620000039799&amp;_afrLoop=11288643855330748&amp;_afrWindowMode=0&amp;_afrWindowId=null#%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dnull%26_afrLoop%3D11288643855330748%26detContId%3DNHBSVRAPP61620000039799%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3D16m3idcgb3_4\">official Singapore Night Festival 2013 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Magic Melody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like last year, the Singapore Art Museum&#8217;s facade is also covered with a video mapping projection, transforming it into a canvas of colourful video displays. Several tablets were installed in front of the museum, allowing you to manipulate and change the video display.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2808\/9609150746_3ab4de4e09_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Magic Melody at the Singapore Art Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2818\/9605923255_ea587145e3_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aided by his father, a kid haves fun manipulating the video projection on an iPad installed in front of the museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Water Light Graffiti<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reminiscent of the Magic Doodle drawing pad which kids play with, the Water Light Graffiti is a giant LED display created by Antonin Fourneau. Each of the LED &#8220;pixels&#8221; has a moisture-sensitive sensor, and lights up in the presence of moisture. Using a damp sponge, visitors can create their own drawings on the board, lasting till the water evaporates.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5483\/9581621374_fb3d88e9d6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creator of the Water Light Graffiti Antonin Fourneau demonstrating how it works.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2853\/9581623046_f53c1b4068_z.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonin Fourneau poses for a water while showing us how the &#8220;pixels&#8221; light up when sprayed with water from the spray bottle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7430\/9578835733_4846cb2f2f_z.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sensors are sensitive enough to detect even the moisture from your breath, lighting up for a brief moment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Paper Planes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As its name suggests, the installation is an interpretation of what could be an airport, with multi-coloured paper planes taking off from a box in all directions.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5329\/9578855003_b0d0bcff72_z.jpg\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paper Planes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like last year, this year&#8217;s Singapore Night Festival also features several light installations spread over the festival grounds. This year, some of the installations introduced interactive elements, allowing the visitors to be a part of the artwork instead of just being passive displays. Here are some of them I visited over the last weekend. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/singapore-night-festival-2013-night-lights\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore Night Festival 2013: Night Lights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[352,347,346,349,351,350,244,348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}