Week 7:Third time is the charm? Not really...

This year's Nuit Blanche was anything but amazing. A lot of people were complaining after the last two years about crowds, long walks, and a generally low impressiveness (is that even a word?) factor. The promise for this year was a general improvement but the result left myself and many asking for more. Less road closures, longer walking distances, and really dissapointing set-ups made a night on the colder side of the thermometer hardly worth leaving the house for. In fact many installations looked much better in the information booklet than in real life.

The thing I most looked forward to, was Blinkenlights. The projects in Europe were a great success, and Toronto's installment promised to razzle, dazzle, and amuse. According to the brochure it should have looked something like this:

the result however turned out to be a major dissapointment:






















I'm not sure if it was the fact that the two buildings were curved, or the huge ramp blocking half of the view from up-close, but the images depicted were hardly recognizable (if at all). Not even a game of low-resolution, indistinguishable PONG on the wall of City Hall, could made up for the lackluster spectacle of this year's Nuit.