Sunday, February 24, 2013

White Night Melbourne, Saturday 23 February

I only decided to go to this at the last minute (around 9pm), but it was worth it. A hot summer night, and the event really did throw Melbourne into a different light (so to speak) - the massive projections on to our iconic Flinders Street buildings being just the most literal and striking example. Lights, screens, illumination and animation everywhere - city square, the back of St Paul's, Flinders Lane, the Yarra and its bridges - not to mention the musical stage set up on the steps of FSS and everything going on at Fed Square and surrounds, and I only saw a small part of it. The city felt like a festival and a playground; familiar streets and locations already laden with associations and impressions cloaked in yet another layer.

(w/ Jarrod, Farrah, and their friends A & A, and I; and then later on Trang, and also Rob and Laura)