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Neon Luminescence
Illuminating waterfalls across Northern California with thousands of Cyalume glow sticks cascading like neon rainbows through the darkness into the pools below, Neon Luminescence, the new artistic endeavor by the boys at From The Lenz, aims to displace reality--or, at least, viewers' surety of real.
Reminiscent of scenes from many a dream (or raving electro music festival, if that's your jam), the waterfall rainbows, environed by silhouettes of urban and natural environments, are part of a continuous photographic project spearheaded by FTL's Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard. Using exposure times varying form 30 seconds to seven minutes, they let loose various colors and patterns of glow sticks, often stringing multiple sticks together to capture the more difficult shots.
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Take Only Pictures, Leave Only... Very Confused Animals...
The project complementarily contrasts the duo's Forgotten Luminescence, showcasing artistic, artificial lighting in decrepit urban settings. And, to those wishing this post were shorter so you can hurry up and berate the company for environmental negligence, (because it's en vogue to protest something), I'm afraid you'll be disappointed: The glow sticks are all buoyant, not one is left behind to pollute, abiding by the enviro-dogma: Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
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Awesome, With A Twist
I'd like to see the future of Neon Luminescence in the imaginative hands of BLDG BLOG author, Geoff Manaugh. Perhaps, he'd describe a future, not so distant from now, where photographic play adopts a more pragmatic (albeit no less surreal) place in society. An energy-efficient future wherein NorCal county roads alight during rainy, foggy nights with curbside rivers of glow sticks in continuous flow from the hills above. Streets are safer--and more beautiful. Costa Rican river guides report fewer cases of missing tourists, thanks to a wondrously luminesced Rio Pacuare. Tourism to Niagara Falls rebounds as the number of weddings surges by tenfold every year, while Mass attendance correlatively drops, due to regular clergymen absences; Local bishops are baffled until they investigate the matter further, discovering only one possible reason: all weddings are held at night, overlooking the psychedelic falls! (A seemingly unrelated study finds the chances of dark, saggy eyes increases for priests.) The following hurricane season, Lenz and Abildgaard are imprisoned for negligence after sneaking onto a Lockheed WC-130J airplane (AKA "Hurricane Hunter") destined for a CAT 5 cyclone in the Caribbean. Dumping hundreds of thousands of new, ultra-light, biodegradable, parachute-outfitted glows sticks from the plane into the maelstrom, they set aglow hundreds of miles of swirling super-storm in the sky above. From the Lesser Antilles up the Eastern seaboard, countless civilians line the beaches to watch the storm's approach. Glow-icane becomes the largest, most beautiful, and most destructive piece of international art in history to date.
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(This story I learned about at 5 Things I Learned Today... but I didn't learn it today.)
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