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Great pictures Hali87 - especially your own - the others a bit too saturated and contrasty for my liking but the subject in interesting.
As for yours - what’s the wooden staircase going up to that light installation? Is it a temporary art light thing?
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Thanks! It's a permanent art installation called "Tidal Beacon" by a California artist named
Ned Kahn, he seems to have done a lot of similar installations playing with lighting and dynamic textures. There's a few other optical illusion type art installations around the Queen's Marque area, I'm not sure whether the same artist was involved in any of those.
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Also, you can walk into the base of the tower and there's an elevator there, but you need a key to operate it and no one knows whether it goes up, or down, or what. It's like being in a real-world version of Myst. (The best guess that I've heard so far is that it's accessibility-related, but it's still not really clear where it goes/comes from)
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Your first picture is really trippy, makes me dizzy! I’m trying to wrap my mind around stairs going up to a height away from the city in behind, usually it’s the other way around.
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It is a bit disorienting in person, walking vaguely towards the sky with a heavily manipulated perspective. Kind of reminds me of an engineered version of Magnetic Hill in Moncton. This is also right next to the stairs that go into the ocean.
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What was the concert? Thanks for sharing!
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The headliner was the rapper
BBNO$ (from Vancouver it turns out - I actually thought he was from NYC until I looked that up) but the photos were taken during
Pineo & Loeb /
Sparkee's set (local Halifax artists who have been doing well nationally). The stage has been set up all summer and there are free concerts/events there every few days but that was one of the largest so far. It's at Grand Parade, the square/park in front of City Hall.
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