The Cellar - June 3, 2012: 100000 LED-lit globes on a Japanese river

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Undertoad

06-03-2012 09:43 AM

June 3, 2012: 100000 LED-lit globes on a Japanese river

http://cellar.org/2012/ledballs.jpg

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Two weeks ago, during the inaugural Tokyo Hotaru festival, 100,000 little balls with LEDs were released in the Sumida River. The impressive installation was made to resemble fireflies (hotaru) and looked like a blur on the river when viewed from a distance. The spheres were 100% powered by solar energy and lighted up upon contact with water. After floating through central Tokyo, the LED’s were caught by a large net.

from demilked.com

Click the link and see the other pics - photographers of course realized they could get different effects from different exposures, and it's all quite beautiful. Click on the images to see them in larger format - worth the effort.

CaliforniaMama

06-03-2012 10:56 AM

Beautiful!

The creativity of the photographers is amazing and it is great fun seeing their different takes on the same subject matter.

glatt

06-04-2012 07:09 AM

They are a lot larger than I was expecting from the first couple pictures.

Pretty! I wish we did more stuff like that here.

monster

06-04-2012 07:45 AM

I want some of these balls! I need these balls! Where can I get balls?

infinite monkey

06-04-2012 09:20 AM

There's a joke here somewhere, about led balls.

newtimer

06-04-2012 09:48 AM

"...the LED’s were caught by a large net."

Yeah? And then what? Tossed back into the river? Buried in a landfill? Sold as souvenirs? Where are they now?

ZenGum

06-05-2012 04:46 AM

Taken to a ball park and set free.

Nirvana

06-06-2012 12:30 PM

For Monster [and anyone else, ;)]
Fairy Berries...
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SPUCK

06-07-2012 04:55 AM

It's all a hoax.

LED doesn't phloat.

infinite monkey

06-07-2012 09:18 AM

You would not believe at all
If ten million fire balls
Lit up the world as I fell asleep

BigV	06-07-2012 10:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPUCK (Post 814186)

It's all a hoax.

LED doesn't phloat.

But what about on the moon?

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