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A river of LED light in Tokyo

June 18, 2012 1 Comment

Ever wondered what 100,000 solar-powered LED spheres look like floating down a river then wonder no more.

As part of the Tokyo Hotaru Festival held in May 100,000 blue glowing spheres were floated down the river, lighting it as they passed. It was designed to be reminiscent of a swarm of fireflies and to capture the way nature intended to brighten up our surroundings.

Front row tickets were a sell out and the spheres were eventually caught downstream in giant nets, ensuring no pollution.

What a sight.

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Tokujin Yoshioka’s Flying Feathers Installation at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

September 1, 2010 Leave a comment

Tokujin Yoshioka’s tank of flying feathers is on show at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Below you can see a video of the installation as shown on Dezeen.tv - Beautiful

The Think Tank

Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka from Dezeen on Vimeo.

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Stunning installation in Diesel Tokyo using Aluminium

August 6, 2010 Leave a comment

The ROLLS installation at the Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama in Minato-ku, Tokyo has been design by Japanese designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato. The designer describes the installation – ‘The characteristic of the material used for this installation, which is aluminium, is that it is very thin and easily bent by hands, yet harder than cloth or paper. Therefore it possesses both soft and hard qualities. By winding and sometimes extending this single, long strip of aluminum from the entrance to the back-end of the store, it creates a beautiful waving form, changing its function and features as the material strength changes. This flexible quality of the material represents a gentle connection between the softness of clothes and hardness of architecture.’

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