After finally getting a shower and putting on fresh clothes, we took a walk along the Quay (Key) to stay awake.
The Iconic Opera House transformed into a canvas. Changing from colored graphics, to a Jackson Pollock painting, to images of the roof being blown away with the sea filling up the auditorium with fishes swimming through it. The light is so well controled that it defines the roof shape down to the tile patterns on the roof so it can be deconstructed.
When I booked our hotel in December last year, I had no idea that the week we were to be here was Vivid, a Festival of Lights, Music and Ideas. Started in 2009 with an initial 200,000 visitors, and a lazer light show on the Opera House roof it is now attended by millions and the light show is across multiple building facades with technology that is hard to imagine. When we first heard of it we were skeptical that this would be another cheezy 70s acid trip on a classic builidng. But it is truely a new art form. And we are at ground zero.
An Art Deco building with constantly changing forms, shapes and images of fantasy creatures.
After dinner in the Historic Rocks area, we returned to our hotel, popped another ambien, and drifted off with the view of the Opera House our last vision.
Next Post: Iconic Sites - our first full day.
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