Browsing the White Night website; maybe I should've done this before going to it, but then again, it's reinforcing the thought I had last night that there'd be no surer way to make it un-fun that to try to be comprehensive about it - far better to take it more or less as it comes.
Like everyone else in the whole of Melbourne, I liked last year's, and this year's return was another hit. Expanding its 'footprint' was a good idea, and meant there while the crowds were still, inevitably, an issue at times, overall there were many more opportunities to spread and break out a bit.
We went through the heart of the city and later back again, and saw bits and pieces there, but spent most of our time in and around the Alexandra Gardens, where we followed the lights to the source of the 'Crepuscular Beam' (striking from afar, but even more so from directly beneath), wandered through the 'Arcadian Reverie' and were struck agog by the sight, first glimpsed from afar, of Craig Walsh's 'Monuments', video projections of five huge faces on to trees on the opposite bank of the Yarra, like some pagan gods and also intensely human, awe-inspiring and moving - the highlight of the night.
(w/ Cass)
Like everyone else in the whole of Melbourne, I liked last year's, and this year's return was another hit. Expanding its 'footprint' was a good idea, and meant there while the crowds were still, inevitably, an issue at times, overall there were many more opportunities to spread and break out a bit.
We went through the heart of the city and later back again, and saw bits and pieces there, but spent most of our time in and around the Alexandra Gardens, where we followed the lights to the source of the 'Crepuscular Beam' (striking from afar, but even more so from directly beneath), wandered through the 'Arcadian Reverie' and were struck agog by the sight, first glimpsed from afar, of Craig Walsh's 'Monuments', video projections of five huge faces on to trees on the opposite bank of the Yarra, like some pagan gods and also intensely human, awe-inspiring and moving - the highlight of the night.
(w/ Cass)
