nuit blanche....in a nut shell

[dunderbug]

There was not enough big outdoor installation work this year. My personal MO when it comes to things like this is to go to installation based work. Specifically things outside if possible to avoid stuff like: overcrowding and lineups. I like going to galleries, and I like seeing paintings and wall based work....but I do that a lot, so for me its

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[dunderbug]

we <3 you too. i wish you were there last night.

[hopping_v]

There was a ro shaped hole in our group... we tried to fill it with peanut butter and random crap we found lying around in the street but it failed :(

[nyahnyahnyah]

I like the idea of each person (everywhere!) as a work of installation art. This needs to be explored further...

[dunderbug]

yeah, we all commented that next year we should do some kind of roaming thing. the nice thing about the umbrella is that it was very compact, and could be "shut off" whenever needed.

[nyahnyahnyah]

Duuuude, I totally want in on that! *commences plotting*

[the_pirate_show]

I was sad to have worked and then slept through the whole thing. I am the lame.

[dunderbug]

if you are around tuesday night, i am going to go hang out by city hall after my class (9:30-ish), and see if i can play a giant game of space invaders. :)

[hopping_v]

I wish you'd stayed out with us a little longer. It turns out there were a bunch of big installations. But they were all in the far west, around the mascots/furries cheering on the crowed football stadium performance art. We ended up staying up till 5ish wandering around that area. Highlights were:

- Yoko Ono - Imagine Peace giant billboard on a crane
- entire street blocked by a huge wall of barrels with nonsense text
- big installation made of packing containers that belched fog and blinked SOS in morse code.
- building with waterfall coming out of a third story window
- building with windows displaying video of fire (interrupted inexplicably by a truck full of people dancing to thriller)

Several smaller things as well, and then we ran into some friends of mine who also turned out to be friends of Heather's at a performance art piece where people throw things from high up and then smash them with sledge hammers.

Oh and we heard the glow lights in the park installation was actually stolen around 12pm so we just missed it.

[dunderbug]

Awww damn. :( I have to admit i was pretty dissapointed by the time I hit the gladstone and just tired of getting bumped into. Poop. Now I feel grumpy about it. Oh well. I'm glad you guys had a fun time.

[hirovox]

[dunderbug]

toronto area douchebag's new pastime is stealing LED's from other people. :(