Vivid round two

After a Vivid-free weekend, it was time for a second visit! I headed out after work with a couple co-workers to take in the lights!

First stop was Martin Place, which is directly across the street from my office building. This is the first year it's been included in the festival, and there was some fun stuff: a water/light feature, lights in the buildings that use fog machines to show their beams down through the street, and of course lots of cool, random light installations.

My favorite thing, though, is this circular building that is lit up like a tree, complete with birds and bugs that move around in it. Now that I've seen the building like this, it's never going to look normal to me  again.

My other favorite thing was walking up close to the Opera House and watching the light sequence from start to finish. (There is music too.) The sequence starts with sound snippets from when the Opera House was being opened after construction, and the lights on the sails mimic the construction process, going from blueprints, to foundation, to plumbing and piping, and ending with tiling. It was fascinating!

And, of course, the Customs House (top left and bottom right) and the Museum of Contemporary Art buildings looked amazing.

It was another amazing Vivd night!

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