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Lighting of the Sails: Audio Creatures
(Artistic Inspiration and Direction by Ash Bolland, Music by Amon Tobin, Visual Content & Animation by Spinifex P/L Sydney.)
Tableaux that evoke the pulsing sea creatures, eye-searing bird-plumage and iridescent plant life of an organo-mechanistic future are projected onto the Sails of the Sydney Opera House.
Light Meadows
by Sarah Gilder, Mark Gilder, Nick Glasson and Tim Hunt.
Light Meadows is an interactive, playful light installation. This “meadow” is made from lit perspex stalks.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Worldwide renowned local lighting designer, Philip Lethlean created a wonderland of colourful installations of lighting treatments with visual identities by their own definition along Melbourne’s Flinders Lane and the famous Princess Bridge. Paroxysm was an installation that cast colour across the arches of Princess Bridge in a riff on journeys of all princes, emirs, sheikhs, sultans and maharajas. With over twenty years of experience across all art forms, Philip Lethlean is the principal designer for the Melbourne based company, Light Designs Australia. His works have consistently toured, with recent international projects including projections with Arabic singers in the UAE, DreamWorks and Global Creatures arena spectacular in the USA, Bali Safari and Marine Park in Indonesia and the Australian Pavilion Expo in Shanghai, China.
The White Night Festival in Melbourne is a State Government of Victoria initiative created by the Victorian Major Events Company. Originally conceived in Paris in 2002, to make vibrant and dynamic art and culture accessible to large audiences in public spaces, Paris’ Nuit Blanche (White Night) has inspired an international network of similar programmes in over twenty cities globally, including Melbourne.
In 2013 Melbourne became the first Australian city to create its own White Night Festival, producing an all night event of light, colour and artistry. The White Night Festival, now in its second year, is a wonderful opportunity to showcase Melbourne as Australia’s international city of artistic innovation, and celebrate the city’s commitment to modern and interpretive art, music and culture.
We're Winning!
"All across the state people are protesting a proposed coal export
terminal"- KHQ
TV News Station
"Environmentalists and other opponents of the terminal,
many of whom were dressed in red T-shirts, dominated public
testimony before a crowd of about 400."- Spokesman
Review
If Earned Media is any indication of of where we stand in the fight for
climate and environmental justice and a sustainable future against coal
exports, than the tide has turned in favor of activists and the
communities we strive to protect. The coal export battle is truly being
fought in the court of public opinion. Giant-sized sympathetic visuals
conveying the values we stand for and what threatens them, and an
engaging experience that helped communities feel a sense of shared power
were all prominent in the earned mainstream media coverage in Spokane
that included two television spots and the front page on their local
paper. The iconic imagery resonates so well that those in a position to
decide the regulations and even the coal export proponents were enamored
with it, excited, and joyful as they took pictures of and with it. We're
grateful to our supporters through whose support we're able to make sure
this critical flank of the fight is present to amplify, inspire, and
build engagement. If you are long to be a part of vibrant community
working to bring the world in closer harmony with your values, than join
Backbone Campaign, our
allies, and collaborators to build a powerful progressive movement.
Special thanks is owed to Spokane
Coalition Builders, and Occupy Spokane whose
dedicated engagement in their community and continued collaboration have
helped to reinvigorate engagement in the NW. The Power Past Coal
Coalition and Sierra Club have dedicated a ton of resources and energy
to mobilize the community to speak out at the hearings, with many other
community members from across the state and beyond sharing their talents
and gifts to make Fossil Fuel Foolishness a thing of the past.
PLEASE: Download, share and post these images. Ask people to people sign the petition urging President Biden to Pardon Daniel Hale at www.StandWithDanielHale.org
In 2015, Daniel Everette Hale released documents revealing devastating failures in the U.S. drone war program, among them the widespread killing of civilians.
For his truth-telling in the interest of humanity, Daniel has been prosecuted under the Espionage Act and is now being held in the Alexandria (Virginia) Detention Center awaiting sentencing on July 27, 2021. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
Please go to www.StandWithDanielHale.org to find out how you can call on President Biden to pardon Daniel and call on Federal Judge Liam O’Grady to sentence Daniel to time-served so that Daniel can be immediately released on July 27.
These images were created on Saturday, June 26, 2021 when supporters of Daniel Hale hit the streets of DC. They used spotlights to project images of Daniel and messages calling for President Biden to "Pardon Daniel Hale." Most photos by Eleanor Goldfield
Sponsors:http://BanKillerDrones.org, BackboneCampaign.org, WHISPeR/ExposeFacts, Veterans for Peace Chapter 34 (New York City), CODEPINK, World Beyond War, World Can’t Wait, Veterans for Peace (National).
AGAIN, PLEASE download, or share and post these images. Ask people to people sign the petition urging President Biden to Pardon Daniel Hale at www.StandWithDanielHale.org
proyecto
1.m. Plan y disposición detallados que se forman para la ejecución de una cosa:
el proyecto ha de ser aprobado por el ministerio.
2.Propósito o pensamiento de hacer una cosa:
proyectos de boda.
3.Conjunto de instrucciones,cálculos y dibujos necesarios para ejecutar una obra de arquitectura o de ingeniería:
proyecto de una urbanización.
4.proyecto de ley Propuesta de ley elaborada por el Gobierno y sometida al parlamento para su aprobación.
project
noun |ˈpräjˌekt, -ikt|
1 an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned and designed to achieve a particular aim: a research project | a nationwide project to encourage business development.
• a school assignment undertaken by a student or group of students, typically as a long-term task that requires independent research: a history project.
• a proposed or planned undertaking: the novel undermines its own stated project of telling a story.
2 (also housing project )a government-subsidized housing development with relatively low rents: her family still lives in the projects .
verb |prəˈjekt, prōˈjekt| [ with obj. ]
1 estimate or forecast (something) on the basis of present trends: spending was projected at $72 million.
• (often as adj. projected) plan (a scheme or undertaking): a projected exhibition of contemporary art.
2 [ no obj. ] extend outward beyond something else; protrude: I noticed a slip of paper projecting from the book | (as adj. projecting) : a projecting bay window.
3 throw or cause to move forward or outward: seeds are projected from the tree.
• cause (light, shadow, or an image) to fall on a surface: the one light projected shadows on the wall.
• cause (a sound, esp. the voice) to be heard at a distance: being audible depends on your ability to project your voice.
• imagine (oneself, a situation, etc.) as having moved to a different place or time: people may be projecting the present into the past.
4 present or promote (a particular view or image): he strives to project an image of youth.
• present (someone or something) in a way intended to create a favorable impression: she liked to project herself more as a friend than a doctor.
• display (an emotion or quality) in one's behavior: everyone would be amazed that a young girl could project such depths of emotion.
• (project something onto) transfer or attribute one's own emotion or desire to (another person), esp. unconsciously: men may sometimes project their own fears onto women.
5 Geometry draw straight lines from a center of or parallel lines through every point of (a given figure) to produce a corresponding figure on a surface or a line by intersecting the surface.
• draw (such lines).
• produce (such a corresponding figure).
6 make a projection of (the earth, sky, etc.) on a plane surface.
(Captured from video)
Light Night Leeds is one of the UK’s largest annual arts and light festivals. Over two special nights the city centre is transformed by spectacular light projections, interactive artworks and captivating performances by local, national and international artists. On Light Night you will discover over 60 arts events across ten zones in the city centre; from large-scale light projections and interactive artworks, to music, dance and street performances. This year Light Night Leeds celebrates the themes of progress and innovation, kicking off with a vibrant illuminated parade celebrating 100 years of social change since (some) women got the vote.
The Leeds Library, one of the city’s hidden treasures, will be the backdrop for a celebration of Leeds suffragettes, Leonora Cohen and Mary Gawthorpe, and a fearsome and fiery dragon will be making an appearance on the Queens Hotel! So, bring your family and friends along to experience "fantastic festival atmosphere and see the city in a new light!
Light projection at the facade of The Fullerton Hotel to Welcome 2024 at the Marina Bay Singapore Countdown.
The light copy of the Kerch Bridge to Crimea projected on Rowing Canal (Grebnoy Kanal) in Krylatskoye during fascinating show of International Festival "Circle of Light" in Moscow. The unforgettable multimedia show amazingly combined the energy of fire, water, light and fireworks with accompaniment of music from the popular Russian songs.
Read more about the bridge: goo.gl/JiRbMQ
Photo #052 taken on September 27, 2016
©2016 www.Moscow-Driver.com by Arthur Lookyanov
Midden is an installation created by Eness, an award winning Melbournian art and design business, for the 2014 Melbourne White Night festival. Illuminations in a vibrant spectrum of colours were projected onto a 150 cubic metre mound of gravel. Midden pays homage to the traditional owners of the land on which Melbourne now stands. A midden is a dump for domestic waste (from early Scandinavian; Norwegian: mødding, Danish: mødding, Swedish regional: mödding) and middens were created around Australia by the Aborigines.
The White Night Festival in Melbourne is a State Government of Victoria initiative created by the Victorian Major Events Company. Originally conceived in Paris in 2002, to make vibrant and dynamic art and culture accessible to large audiences in public spaces, Paris’ Nuit Blanche (White Night) has inspired an international network of similar programmes in over twenty cities globally, including Melbourne.
In 2013 Melbourne became the first Australian city to create its own White Night Festival, producing an all night event of light, colour and artistry. The White Night Festival, now in its second year, is a wonderful opportunity to showcase Melbourne as Australia’s international city of artistic innovation, and celebrate the city’s commitment to modern and interpretive art, music and culture.
UP, and away! is the brainchild of a Singapore-based team of lighting designers, architects and engineers.
Consisting of five sets of psychedelic wings on recycled bicycles, the installation is inspired by a familiar childhood fantasy that many of us may identify with – one of flying free!
The wings are designed to light up according to the activities of the rider. For example, the faster one pedals the brighter the wings become. This is made possible through an intelligent circuit board that calculates the speed of each rotation with a magnetic switch which correspondingly controls the brightness of the LED lights.
June 4th, 2012.
Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 25 May – 11 June 2012.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the new Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries and the biggest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 400,000 attendees in 2011.
Now heading into its fourth year, Vivid Sydney was ranked in the Top Ten global ideas festivals by the influential Guardian newspaper in the UK.
b>June 2014
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
Cellular Tessellation - blue - is an architectural installation that transforms your urban experience as a pedestrian. This softly glowing, geometric form responds to your movements, creating an ever-shifting space of patterned and immersive light.
The impact is both spatial and aesthetic – you can be ‘inside’ the space of the pavilion, as well as experiencing the project visually. As you move through and around the pavilion, you can manipulate the lighting effects – watch how the intensity and colour of the illuminations change as you interact with Cellular Tessellation. The artwork ‘reads’ the proximity and number of inhabitants inside the pavilion, and feeds this information back to you by adjusting its light output. It’s as if the pavilion comes alive as more people flock inside.
Architectural Fabrication and Research Laboratory / Chris Knapp / Jonathan Nelson / Michael Parsons
www.vividsydney.com/events/cellular-tessellation
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Vivid Sydney is a unique winter festival of light, music, and ideas.
Vivid 2015 will run from the 22nd of May until the 8th of June 2015.
Mechanised Colour Assemblage: Artists: Rebecca Baumann (Australia)/ Danny Rose (Sergio Carrubba (France)/ Paola Ciucci (France)/ Lucia Frigola (France)/
Cédric Péri (France)/ Emanuele De Raymondi (Italy)
MCA at the MCA
Mechanised Colour Assemblage (2015) transforms the MCA façade into a series of sound and colour ‘machines’ that create a continuously morphing listening and viewing experience. The audience is plunged into a universe where voices and colours blend together to become a single element.
The machines change colour and shape, drawing on a variety of phenomena entering the space around the MCA. In response to sound they form new surfaces – sometimes soft, sometimes hard.
Australian artist Rebecca Baumann developed the installation in collaboration with Paris-based art and design team Danny Rose. Rebecca works in kinetic sculpture, installation and performance, often bringing paper, smoke, confetti, and tinsel to life using mechanisms such as flip-clocks, fans, and detonators. Her interest in colour and its perceptual relationship with emotion inspired and informed this work. Its intent is to take each audience member on a journey through their own emotions as they participate in a synaesthetic experience, in which two senses, hearing and vision, are experienced simultaneously.
The installation uses 3D-mapping to project the machine images onto the MCA façade. This lends ‘spatiality’ to the experience – delivering single, mobile and multiple sources of sound, which can move within the location. The speakers are positioned in the MCA courtyard, forming a large rectangle that surrounds the audience and defines the listening space.
The sounds move in the spatial environment following different trajectories, which in turn correspond to the chromatic movements of the visuals. The soundtrack is an original composition by Emanuele de Raymondi.
Danny Rose is a multidisciplinary art and design team based in Paris that specializes in creating and realising super-sized audio-visual shows, multimedia experiences, architectural art mapping and interactive installations including events, theatre, music, museum design, opera and light festivals. They recently received the Judges Choice Award at the Digi Award 2015 for their innovative use of technology and mass audience engagement at Vivid Sydney 2014, a fitting token of international recognition.
Projection Technology and Mapping Design by TDC
Vivid Sydney is a unique winter festival of light, music, and ideas.
Vivid 2015 will run from the 22nd of May until the 8th of June 2015.
Mechanised Colour Assemblage: Artists: Rebecca Baumann (Australia)/ Danny Rose (Sergio Carrubba (France)/ Paola Ciucci (France)/ Lucia Frigola (France)/
Cédric Péri (France)/ Emanuele De Raymondi (Italy)
MCA at the MCA
Mechanised Colour Assemblage (2015) transforms the MCA façade into a series of sound and colour ‘machines’ that create a continuously morphing listening and viewing experience. The audience is plunged into a universe where voices and colours blend together to become a single element.
The machines change colour and shape, drawing on a variety of phenomena entering the space around the MCA. In response to sound they form new surfaces – sometimes soft, sometimes hard.
Australian artist Rebecca Baumann developed the installation in collaboration with Paris-based art and design team Danny Rose. Rebecca works in kinetic sculpture, installation and performance, often bringing paper, smoke, confetti, and tinsel to life using mechanisms such as flip-clocks, fans, and detonators. Her interest in colour and its perceptual relationship with emotion inspired and informed this work. Its intent is to take each audience member on a journey through their own emotions as they participate in a synaesthetic experience, in which two senses, hearing and vision, are experienced simultaneously.
The installation uses 3D-mapping to project the machine images onto the MCA façade. This lends ‘spatiality’ to the experience – delivering single, mobile and multiple sources of sound, which can move within the location. The speakers are positioned in the MCA courtyard, forming a large rectangle that surrounds the audience and defines the listening space.
The sounds move in the spatial environment following different trajectories, which in turn correspond to the chromatic movements of the visuals. The soundtrack is an original composition by Emanuele de Raymondi.
Danny Rose is a multidisciplinary art and design team based in Paris that specializes in creating and realising super-sized audio-visual shows, multimedia experiences, architectural art mapping and interactive installations including events, theatre, music, museum design, opera and light festivals. They recently received the Judges Choice Award at the Digi Award 2015 for their innovative use of technology and mass audience engagement at Vivid Sydney 2014, a fitting token of international recognition.
Projection Technology and Mapping Design by TDC
Gamma World - MCA Original Facade
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
The MCA Projection takes the audience on an integrated journey, moving from one space to another in a constant flux of movement. Inspired by Artist Jess Johnson, the MCA building morphs into an interactive and dynamic performance space, coming to life, changing its appearance, and even seeming to change its structure at times through the use of isometric designs, old school gaming, pop up 3D books and forced perspective. As each chapter evolves we have built drama and emotion through animation and 3D visual effects tricks that will take the viewer on an abstract, emotional and playful journey through constantly changing worlds.
Projection Technology by TDC – Technical Direction Company.
www.vividsydney.com/events/gamma-world-mca-original-facade
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Sky Grass
by Kathryn and Martin Bevz.
Sky Grass is an evolution of the 2012 Vivid installation “Sea Grass” hanging from the railway overpass near Circular Quay Station.
The installation features 30km of hand-cut fibre optic cabling powered by individually controllable LED nodes. Ultra sonic sensors trigger vibrant colour effects as viewers pass underneath.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Activists with New York International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (NYCAN), Rise And Resist, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and The Illuminator projected images on the side the United Nations building in New York on January 19, 2021 with messages denouncing the countries yet to sign the Nuclear Ban Treaty. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
University of Sydney
Pizza Food Truck
As Vivid Sydney transforms the city and its harbour into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas, the University of Sydney - Australia's oldest university - is joining the festival for the first time.
Vivid Path to the Future, a collaboration between the University of Sydney and owners and managers of Vivid Sydney, Destination NSW, with the support of Finely Tuned, will see the University's iconic Quadrangle illuminated with artwork sourced from world-leading projection artists along with students, staff and members of the wider community. Some of this artwork will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander themed in celebration of National Reconciliation Week.
@home, 4.06.
"Whatever it takes I’m giving
It’s just a gift I’m given
Try to live inside
Trying to move inside
And I always thought that it would make me smarter
But it’s only made me harder
My heart thrown open wide
In this near wild heaven
Not near enough".
Near Wild Heaven / REM
University of Sydney
As Vivid Sydney transforms the city and its harbour into a colourful canvas of light, music and ideas, the University of Sydney - Australia's oldest university - is joining the festival for the first time.
Vivid Path to the Future, a collaboration between the University of Sydney and owners and managers of Vivid Sydney, Destination NSW, with the support of Finely Tuned, will see the University's iconic Quadrangle illuminated with artwork sourced from world-leading projection artists along with students, staff and members of the wider community. Some of this artwork will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander themed in celebration of National Reconciliation Week.
Light Night Leeds is one of the UK’s largest annual arts and light festivals. Over two special nights the city centre is transformed by spectacular light projections, interactive artworks and captivating performances by local, national and international artists. On Light Night you will discover over 60 arts events across ten zones in the city centre; from large-scale light projections and interactive artworks, to music, dance and street performances. This year Light Night Leeds celebrates the themes of progress and innovation, kicking off with a vibrant illuminated parade celebrating 100 years of social change since (some) women got the vote.
The Leeds Library, one of the city’s hidden treasures, will be the backdrop for a celebration of Leeds suffragettes, Leonora Cohen and Mary Gawthorpe, and a fearsome and fiery dragon will be making an appearance on the Queens Hotel! So, bring your family and friends along to experience "fantastic festival atmosphere and see the city in a new light!
June 4th, 2012.
Sydney will once again be transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 25 May – 11 June 2012.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the new Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of the creative industries and the biggest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, attracting over 400,000 attendees in 2011.
Now heading into its fourth year, Vivid Sydney was ranked in the Top Ten global ideas festivals by the influential Guardian newspaper in the UK.
June 2014
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
A 3D-mapped projection transforms the façade of Customs House into a series of massive ‘musical sculptures’, in a poetic explosion of light, colour and sound. Each of these ‘sculptures’ depicts a family of musical instruments which you can ‘play’ in real time. Take your place in front of throngs of festival-goers and create a visual and sonic masterpiece on the face of this iconic Sydney edifice. Vivid Sydney is delighted to welcome back Danny Rose, the design team that last year created an extravaganza of colour and light on the façade of Customs House, with Move Your Building. This year, the team again transforms the frontage of this historic landmark to bring you Play Me! , another breathtaking, interactive, 3D-mapped projection. You select one of the ‘musical sculptures’ from a touch screen, get onto a platform in front of Customs House and ‘play’ the sculpture, bringing it to life in glorious torrents of ever-changing colour, light, form and sound.
TDC – Technical Direction Company
www.vividsydney.com/events/play-me
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
Vivid Light transforms Sydney into a wonderland of 'light art' sculptures, innovative installations and grand-scale projections for all to enjoy.
May 23 - 9 June 2014
From Tinker Bell to Titania, fairies have long inhabited our folklore, our literature and most of all the realms of our childhood imaginations. Perhaps when you were very young, the reflected light of a mirror became a mischievous elf; maybe the sound of a triangle being struck or the breeze in the trees inspired you to hope you might just encounter these delicate, magical beings.
Vivid Sydney lures these dwellers of fantastical dimensions to our harbourside, with When the fairies come out to play.
The artwork comprises 200 illuminated, kinetic ornaments which flit and flutter playfully, shimmering in the dark and allowing themselves to be seen by the mere mortals who wander through the park. These tiny sprites recreate the sense of awe you once felt when you believed in the possibility of enchanted forests, bewitched flowers and spirits that lived at the bottom of your garden.
The fairies are brought to life by energy-efficient, pre-programmed LED chips, which continuously twinkle through the colour spectrum.
Martin Bevz / Kathryn Bevz
www.vividsydney.com/api/when-the-fairies-come-out-to-play
www.vividsydney.com/?gclid=CjkKEQjw75CcBRCz2LiEs5OPsZoBEi...
We're Winning!
"All across the state people are protesting a proposed coal export
terminal"- KHQ
TV News Station
"Environmentalists and other opponents of the terminal,
many of whom were dressed in red T-shirts, dominated public
testimony before a crowd of about 400."- Spokesman
Review
If Earned Media is any indication of of where we stand in the fight for
climate and environmental justice and a sustainable future against coal
exports, than the tide has turned in favor of activists and the
communities we strive to protect. The coal export battle is truly being
fought in the court of public opinion. Giant-sized sympathetic visuals
conveying the values we stand for and what threatens them, and an
engaging experience that helped communities feel a sense of shared power
were all prominent in the earned mainstream media coverage in Spokane
that included two television spots and the front page on their local
paper. The iconic imagery resonates so well that those in a position to
decide the regulations and even the coal export proponents were enamored
with it, excited, and joyful as they took pictures of and with it. We're
grateful to our supporters through whose support we're able to make sure
this critical flank of the fight is present to amplify, inspire, and
build engagement. If you are long to be a part of vibrant community
working to bring the world in closer harmony with your values, than join
Backbone Campaign, our
allies, and collaborators to build a powerful progressive movement.
Special thanks is owed to Spokane
Coalition Builders, and Occupy Spokane whose
dedicated engagement in their community and continued collaboration have
helped to reinvigorate engagement in the NW. The Power Past Coal
Coalition and Sierra Club have dedicated a ton of resources and energy
to mobilize the community to speak out at the hearings, with many other
community members from across the state and beyond sharing their talents
and gifts to make Fossil Fuel Foolishness a thing of the past.
- Photos by
Benji Bao Vương and imagery mobilized by Overpass Light Brigade PDX
and Oregon Fair Trade
For Immediate Release: Day before Wikileak of TPP Document - 13
Cities Mobilized to Shine a Light on Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership
"Trade" Deal Telling Congress "Don't Fast Track a Train Wreck - FLUSH
the TPP!"
CONTACT: Bill Moyer 206-356-9980 | bill@backbonecampaign.org
| or Eric Ross 805-776-3882 | eric@backbonecampaign.org
| 805-776-3882 | VoteNoFastTrack.org
SEATTLE - On Tuesday evening citizens in Seattle and 12
other cities appeared on overpasses and roadsides to pull the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, aka TPP, out of the shadows and into the
light of public scrutiny. From Dallas to DC, San Diego to Seattle,
Tucson to Detroit, Baltimore to Bellingham, Spokane to Chicago
people took their messages to interstate overpasses, prominent
monuments, and busy city streets using coordinated daytime and
nighttime, high visibility tactics.
They deployed giant banners saying No New NAFTA, mobilized LED light
panels saying "(thumbs up) Democracy, STOP The TPP," and projected with
spotlights messages like "Don't Fast Track A Train Wreck." These
coordinated citizen's actions coincided with ongoing TPP negotiations
taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-24
and today's anticipated release by Congressperson Rosa DeLauro and
George Miller detailing the growing opposition to "Fast Track" among
Congress, and preceded today's surprise release by Wikileaks of a leaked
chapter of the secretive "TPP" agreement. [Here
is Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch initial interpretations of the
chapter on intellectual property.]
The TPP has been called NAFTA on steroids, a "Corporate Coup," and
concerned citizens from across the nation are calling on Congress to
"Flush It!" and to oppose President Obama's request to renew "Fast
Track" authority to commit our country to this secretive agreement that
has less to do with trade, than it does with dismantling any domestic
policies that undermine future profits for transnational capital and
corporations.
Bill Moyer, Executive Director of the Backbone Campaign stated "Only a
bought a sold government would sign a treaty that sacrifices our
capacity as communities and country to pass laws for workers benefit,
and the protection of our communities and our natural resources."
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated under secrecy for 3
years. Obama is now pushing to have it swiftly approved to much to the
dismay of members of Congress, most of whom haven't even been allowed to
see the text. While Congress is constitutionally required to negotiate
any international treaties, Fast Track or granting Obama Trade Promotion
Authority would forfeit the Congress' responsibility and the public's
right to weigh in on the TPP negotiations.
Perhaps in response to growing citizen outrage letters were release
today from both Democrats and Republicans challenging President Obama's
request for renewal of Fast Track authority. [From Today's Public
Citizen announcement: The
151-signature DeLauro-Miller letter, additional
letter from Democratic Ways & Means members, One
of two letters, this led by Representative Walter Jones (R-NC)]
One of the illuminated messages on Tuesday read "Corporate Tribunals
WTF?" This referred to how the TPP would give more power to corporate
interests including the ability for foreign companies to sue for
taxpayer compensation if any domestic law diminished the company's expected future profits.
Masked as a trade deal, the agreement has been negotiated under
supervision of 600 unelected corporate "trade advisors" while the text
has been hidden from members of Congress, the press, and the public.
What has been learned about the TPP has come through leaked texts, and
is alarming to members of Congress worried about sovereign powers being
negotiated away, public health officials, labor representatives,
environmental groups, and advocates of consumer issues.
"The TPP, the largest ever of it's kind, is a race to the bottom
international agreement on domestic and international policies of food
safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the
environment," says Kristen Beifus, executive director of Washington Fair
Trade Coalition."
Trade Justice organizations have declared December 3rd a "Global Day of
Action Against the TPP to resist toxic trade agreements." Citizens are
urged to take action in their own community, contact their
congressperson, and learn more about the TPP's dismantling of democracy
by visiting VoteNoFastTrack.org.
Citizens can find out where their congressperson stands and tweet them
Tuesday's coordinated actions were organized by the Backbone Campaign,
which specializes in "amplifying citizen engagement with creative
tactics and artful activism" in collaboration with Public Citizen's
Global Trade Watch, PopularResistance.org, Fair Trade Coalitions in
Washington and Oregon, the Overpass Light
Brigade network, and more.
The coordinated day of action follows on the heals of an action in
September when to the surprise of secret service, members and allies of
PopularResistance.org and the Backbone Campaign "redecorated"
the United States Trade Representatives office by scaling the building
and unfurling giant banners demanding a release of the TPP text. The
Backbone Campaign is grateful to Wikileaks for beginning that process.
View the growing collection of photos from the 11-12-13 actions HERE.
To speak with organizers of yesterday's day of action please contact
Bill Moyer at 206-356-9980 or Eric Ross at 805-776-3882.
Info and Collaborator Web Sites:
Thanks to our many awesome collaborators both mentioned and not!
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Brigade
Brigade
Diego Overpass Light Brigade
Rising Tide
Talking Points
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This ice bear was seen approx. at 10pm, June 5th 2011.
The Ice Bear Project is a not-for-profit arts organisation. World renowned animal sculptor, Mark Coreth saw the effects of climate change when he first travelled to Baffin Island in November 2007. He wanted to spread his message about the need for action on climate change and has been doing so using his Ice Bear sculptural events since 2009.
The Sydney Ice Bear will be a life-size ice sculpture of a hunting male polar bear at the Customs House Square, Circular Quay. British sculptor Mark Coreth will carve the polar bear ice sculpture on Friday 3 June starting from 7am. The public are invited to touch the Sydney Ice Bear as it slowly melts to reveal the bronze skeleton of a life-size polar bear, measuring 2.2 metres high and 4 metres long!
The Sydney Ice Bear will be lighted up at night with LED lights to complement the Vivid Sydney's 3-D art projections at Customs House. The Sydney Ice Bear will also be part of a free public event on World Environment Day on Sunday, 5th of June from 12.30pm.
The creation of the Ice Bear and its eventual meltdown is a reminder to us of the human impact on our environment, highlighting the urgent need for action on climate change.
To find out more about the Ice Bear Project which has been going around the world in cities such as Copenhagen, London, Toronto, Montreal and Manchester since 2009, go to this link: www.icebearproject.org.
Skylark
Artist:32 Hundred Lighting: Iain Reed (Australia)
Skylark is a vast play of light stretching from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay to the outer areas of Sydney Harbour.
Created by Iain Reed of 32 Hundred Lighting, Skylark incorporates interactive lighting of the bridge and Circular Quay skyscrapers, and this year, in a first for Vivid Sydney, incorporates a new, fully interactive custom-built laser, double the strength of any laser ever seen before on Sydney Harbour.
Lighting of the Sails: Audio Creatures
(Artistic Inspiration and Direction by Ash Bolland, Music by Amon Tobin, Visual Content & Animation by Spinifex P/L Sydney.)
Tableaux that evoke the pulsing sea creatures, eye-searing bird-plumage and iridescent plant life of an organo-mechanistic future are projected onto the Sails of the Sydney Opera House.
Skylark is a vast play of light stretching from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay to the outer areas of Sydney Harbour.
Created by Iain Reed of 32 Hundred Lighting, Skylark incorporates interactive lighting of the bridge and Circular Quay skyscrapers, and this year, in a first for Vivid Sydney, incorporates a new, fully interactive custom-built laser, double the strength of any laser ever seen before on Sydney Harbour.
Light Waves
Artists:
Indermühle + Indermühle: Aly Indermühle (Australia) / Balthasar Indermühle (Australia)
Light Waves is an electrifying curtain of brilliantly-coloured light that illuminates the harbour on cold winter nights. The rich vibrancy of light reminds us of the ever-present life that exists on, around and under Sydney Harbour.
Fuelled by nature and enhanced by modern technology, Light Waves provides an entertaining spectacle for visitors. The lights lie partially submerged in the moving water and appear to dance on the waves.
As tides rise and lower, reflections of spectral colour create an ever-changing effect of rhythmic light in the water below. Programmed through nanocomputing, the LEDs cycle through subtle changes as they move along the colour spectrum.
Worldwide renowned local lighting designer, Philip Lethlean created a wonderland of colourful installations of lighting treatments with visual identities by their own definition along Melbourne’s Flinders Lane and the famous Princess Bridge. Paroxysm was an installation that cast colour across the arches of Princess Bridge in a riff on journeys of all princes, emirs, sheikhs, sultans and maharajas. With over twenty years of experience across all art forms, Philip Lethlean is the principal designer for the Melbourne based company, Light Designs Australia. His works have consistently toured, with recent international projects including projections with Arabic singers in the UAE, DreamWorks and Global Creatures arena spectacular in the USA, Bali Safari and Marine Park in Indonesia and the Australian Pavilion Expo in Shanghai, China.
The White Night Festival in Melbourne is a State Government of Victoria initiative created by the Victorian Major Events Company. Originally conceived in Paris in 2002, to make vibrant and dynamic art and culture accessible to large audiences in public spaces, Paris’ Nuit Blanche (White Night) has inspired an international network of similar programmes in over twenty cities globally, including Melbourne.
In 2013 Melbourne became the first Australian city to create its own White Night Festival, producing an all night event of light, colour and artistry. The White Night Festival, now in its second year, is a wonderful opportunity to showcase Melbourne as Australia’s international city of artistic innovation, and celebrate the city’s commitment to modern and interpretive art, music and culture.
Hundreds and Thousands
by Kirsty Grant, Derek Samuel, Annika Weis and Yvonne Stewart.
We all have memories of sugary sweet, colourful "Hundreds and Thousands" from our childhood.
A canopy tunnel of light arcs over viewers as they walk through, surrounded by masses of tiny individually controlled lights that look like pixels on a computer, to bring back your childhood memories of hundreds and thousands.
Sydney is once again transformed into a spectacular canvas of light, music and ideas when Vivid Sydney takes over the city after dark from 24 May – 10 June 2013.
Colouring the city with creativity and inspiration, Vivid Sydney highlights include the hugely popular immersive light installations and projections; performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House and the Vivid Ideas Exchange featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers.
On the eve of the Republican National Convention, August 21, 2020 activists with the "March for the Dead, Fight for the Living" and The Illuminator projected 80ft tall images on the side of the Verizon building at the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge with messages calling on the Trump administration and beyond to take responsible action to save lives and end suffering. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
People's Puppets Of OWS and Backbone Campaign light projection collaboration for the Poor People's Campaign. Brooklyn, NY on June 12, 2018. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Merchandise Mart at Chicago River
Chicago, IL
September 29, 2018
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Liberty is a muscle that must be exercised.
We had an interesting interaction with Capitol Police in DC tonight (4-10-2018). They tried
to shut down our projection action at the Rayburn office building - and succeeded for a while. But after a lot of back and forth, and a decision to risk taking an arrest to defend 1st amendment protected speech - we ended up all going home - and getting our photos.
Thank you to the great team of folks ready for anything. Was super proud to be part of such a great team with Phil and Roni, as well as all the crew from the Health Over Profit for Everyone - HOPE action camp. Special thanks to Kevin Zeese for his skilled late night, on-the-street legal support and negotiation skills.
Forward Together!
Bill
Backbone and allies like IVAW, CodePink and more utilized creative tactics to grab the media's attention and make our shared values more visible at the opening of the Bush presidential library and policy institute.
An administration whose failed policies and warmongering doesn't deserve a memorial, the fact that people laugh at the idea of a Bush Library is a testament to their folly. The Bush Lie-Bury is a reverse memorial to the 8 years (a following wake) of fallen lives and squandered opportunities that has led this country down such a terrible path.
By day, activists used bobble-head paper mache puppets rendered in the likeness of Bush, Cheney and the rest of his gang to force Dallas police to arrest them, giving us a cathartic if only symbolic relief. At night, activists agitated and inspired onlookers with light projections in downtown Dallas affirming and making our values visible. The creative tactics utilized earned the attention of the media who has largely ignored objections to the memorial.
Light Night Leeds is one of the UK’s largest annual arts and light festivals. Over two special nights the city centre is transformed by spectacular light projections, interactive artworks and captivating performances by local, national and international artists. On Light Night you will discover over 60 arts events across ten zones in the city centre; from large-scale light projections and interactive artworks, to music, dance and street performances. This year Light Night Leeds celebrates the themes of progress and innovation, kicking off with a vibrant illuminated parade celebrating 100 years of social change since (some) women got the vote.
The Leeds Library, one of the city’s hidden treasures, will be the backdrop for a celebration of Leeds suffragettes, Leonora Cohen and Mary Gawthorpe, and a fearsome and fiery dragon will be making an appearance on the Queens Hotel! So, bring your family and friends along to experience "fantastic festival atmosphere and see the city in a new light!