Festival of Light at Longleat

Utterly beautiful and gloriously festive and fun. Even the light up singing Christmas tree was magical and I was expecting to find it ridiculous. It was over the top wonderful and fantastic. Thank you Longleat folks and thank you to my parents for taking me.

Spectra - Ryoji Ikeda - Victoria Tower Gardens

Just caught this on the last night and was well worth hanging about to experience. Bright jets of light straight up in the sky in the middle of London and hypnotic sounds as you move amongst the pillars of light in memory of the first world war. Dust sparkled as it passed through the beams. Beautiful.

Thames Walk/Albert Bridge

A beautiful evening walk along the Thames from Chelsea Harbour to Vauxhall. I'd never walked that bit of the Thames before. I liked Albert Bridge lots, all lit up and pink!

250 Euston Road glowing up ahead

Buildings covered in mirror look stunning at sunset.

New home - decorated by shadow and books!

I made these shadow lamps about 3 years ago, and they have never given so good an effect as they do in out new little flat. Mr Emmie and I have just moved, cramming ourselves into a little studio...so far it seems fine, nice and cosy :) and I'm thrilled with the beautiful shadows. I almost don't wnt to hang my Babar picture...

Interiors @ Lyric Hammersmith

A few weeks ago I went to Lyric Hammersmith and saw Interiors. It was eggs. It was set up like you were watching through the windows into a house, and you couldn't hear what the characters were saying, just hints and observations from the narrator, who was another secret watcher. And there were lights/projection over the outside the house to look look like wind and snow and stars :)

Here's the official blurb:

Behind a window, in a cosy room, a group of friends
sit down for a meal. The food is being cooked;
the lamps are on, everyone is happy. Talk begins
and soon stories unfold around the table, stories
about the living and the dead, about missing
necklaces and what happens when people get hungry.

Outside someone is watching.

Vanishing Point return to the Lyric with this major
international collaboration following their sell-out hit
Subway. Utterly hypnotic, Interiors is about sounds,
silence, and the darkness outside the window. This production is inspired by the Nobel prize-winner
Maurice Maeterlinck’s astonishing play, Interior.

Cheek to Cheek

My friend Frances who dances has done this lovely lovely dance film :) I love the use of shadow and reflection and the blend of happiness with melancholy. It's about loneliness and memories but it feels uplifting to me :) Good times.

Shadow Dance

I went to my housemates uni dance show on fri...and this dance caught my eye. Lots of playing with light and shadow. This bit was my favourite, a bit of shadow trickery with the shadow of another dancer :)

Choreography: Hollie McGill Dancers: Charley Ashton-Court, Leanne Welfare, Tomomi Kosano Music: Ederdunen by Kammerflimmer Kollektief 'how the eye functions' a classroom film by KK Bosse Chiusi nel sogno by Diego Dall'Osto Performed at Resourceful Choreographer Directed Group Pieces, Froebel College, Roehampton University Friday 6th March 2009

It was a good dance show (not that I know much about dance) and Roehampton uni is beautiful! And of course my housemates dance was probably one of the better ones ;)

Peachy

I saw this lamp a while ago but never mentioned it...it's simple but clever and sweetly stylish :) it's a plain blue lamp with stripes for sea levels in day and when it is switched on but when you switch it off phosphorecent sea creatures glow in the dark as a night light for children :)

Yu Jordy Fu

Recycled paper lasercut lampshades. Sort of like something I might have done which makes me feel a little unoriginal! :) my stuff is more surreal and illustrative and less 3 dimensional but really similar...lets hope this inspires me to innovate :)

http://www.jordyfu.com/

Candle Rotator

Little film of my candle rotating shadow experiment...what a lot of fiddling and fire hazard...next stop: clockwork?

playing with my window

Experimentation with shadows....cut paper and plastic attached to my window casting shadow on the curtain. It's not final design work but it's lovely because it keeps surprising me...I only get the sun late afternoon so I'll be working and suddenly Bam! I'll realise I'm surrounded by shadow of light!

Jean Nouvel again!

I was recommended to research the Institut du Monde Arabe because of its use of shadow and light. I find it was designed by Jean Nouvel, whose shadow kitchen cupboards I like so much!

http://emmiephant.blogspot.com/2008/05/jean-nouvel.html

Crazy video facades

Can this be real? Amazing!

Brave Space - Light Blocks

Brave Space have done something very like what I'm doing but using wood and eco resin. I like the surprise of a shadow behind wood...you never think you'd see through wood. But I feel somehow it could be more exciting...

Adam Frank

Adam Frank is a designer/artist who plays with light and interactivity. He's done oil lamp shadow projectors and projecters that create a sunlit window shadow effect. How very like what I'm trying to do...though I'm hoping to use actual windows. His can be used where there aren't windows though. Nifty.

Hiro Yamagata

http://hiroyamagata.com/exhibition/

Beautiful.

Tom Foulsham

http://tomfoulsham.co.uk/candle.html

Lo-tech rotation using candles...fleeting sculpture.

Philips Daylight Window

Anke Jakob

Light projections onto fabric, playing with perception and ephemeral decoration.

http://surfaceandmedia.blogspot.com/