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Posted July 9th 2008 under Light, Performance
“GDANSK, POLAND - JULY 4 2008: A UFO has been spotted over the historic town of Gdansk, Poland, on July 4 2008.
The UFO flew in along the coast from the nearby town of Sopot, and then circled the centre of Gdansk. The UFO made its startling and surprising appearance soon after sunset. It appeared to be covered in lights displaying a series of geometric colour patterns.”
(photo: Michal Szlaga)
The UFO Project is the concept of artist Peter Coffin and has been realised by Cinimod Studio .
“The overall UFO structure is 7 metres in diameter and manufactured of aluminium for lightness. 3000 bright and individually controllable Color Kinetics LED nodes have been arrayed across the structure and are controlled via a solid state computer. An onboard 6 kw generator provides the system power, and the overall UFO can be remotely controllable via SMS messaging. It is suspended from 8 points to a single 50m strop line attached to the Mi2 helicopter above.”
Read more about the project and watch a video here.
Comments
(July 9th 2008)
that is absolutely beautiful, what an amazing piece of work …
(September 21st 2009)
Awesomely beautiful !!
(October 18th 2009)
Please examine UFO as an astronomical analogue of Cerenkov effect and in context with superlight enteties- Ravindra ,India