Thursday, January 29, 2015
Swing a Mallet and Light Up A Bridge in This Giant Strongman Game
The Creators Project: Step right up! The high striker—also known as the strongman game—a mainstay attraction at many a carnival, festival, and fairway, just got the high tech update it's been waiting for. Created by Beam’Art, the small creative company formed by Benjamin Petit and Antoine Vanel, Hi Striker is an interactive installation that takes the classic "how hard can you swing a hammer" challenge to soaring new heights.
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Oh this is so cool! I love to see how they are taking classic fun and making them into new works of art! The carival was a big part of my life growing up, we lived in one of those town where it came through every year and every year my mother took me and my cousins to enjoy it. We did the mallet game, and never scored very high! But still sometimes people don’t think that the games and experiences of their childhood could be considered works of art. Truly though aren’t memories art in our mind? We change and deconstruct them and make them in to fond remembrance of happy times. To see someone taking these happy times and making them able to be shared with others is just so cool to see.
This is a great show, I loved the lights and effects they used to create the experience. It is always great to see a piece like this that transforms a city into a show. It's almost as if they are turning an entire place into a sculpture. a work of art that entertains an entire crowd. This entire experience reminds me of Disney's concept of turing the idea of a gross carnival/ fair into a well planned piece of art. The fact that the entire thing was brought together using light, fireworks and media really connects the entire experience. I hope other forms of "old fashioned" entertainment continue to be made better using the means of our time.
What a way to turn small time fun into big time adventure. It would be cool being the tourist and coming across this type of illumination. I remember when I would play the game at Chuck E Cheese’s. This brings design, and innovation to a whole new level. By putting all of this technology into the grand scheme of things, you’ve added a way to include the community and to try something different that they wouldn’t have been able to experience otherwise. I wonder how much time this took to get this type of project set up. You figure with the amount of cable and wiring that would need to be used to go across the bridge, and to have it all be able to correspond with each other takes this to a new level of play. I just know I haven’t made it that far in the field of lighting to fully understand what all it takes to get this to be accomplished.
I think this is a very cool installation. I would love to see this in person and be able to try it out because I’m sure it is amazing. That game at the carnival is always impossible to beat and it is also very addicting because everyone wants to win and hit the bell. I like that this installation is easier to beat and you are able to light up most, if not all of the lights, without being super strong. It is more beneficial for everyone if a person can get a good “score” because then they all enjoy the light show. I think the fireworks are a good addition for the really strong people because it is more of a reward. This installation is probably very difficult to move and find a perfect location because of all of the lights and to create an overall experience. This probably took years to develop and plan out.
This is a really cool concept, and proof that neither traditional architecture or traditional architectural lighting should get in the way of an installation that can alter the city around it. But this project goes farther than that, it makes the whole thing interactive. I can’t imagine the triggers that this installation must use, but it is truly a magnificent thing to watch. Imagine for minute that you had just succeeded on the strongman and you got to turn a 24 column building into a score meter that then flashes and dings just like a less impressive version would in an arcade. Personally, I would remember the experience for the rest of my life. I think that more cities should green light ideas like this, because every time I see a huge installation like this, I think of how impactful it is on the city, and how amazing it is that designers can integrate their art with the homes of thousands, maybe even millions of people.
Architectural lighting design is one of those things that truly have the most potential to be the some of the most really cool things in a town/city. Before attending Carnegie Mellon University I thought the coolest architectural elements on this campus were the Hunt Library and the Randy Pausch Bridge. This is because they can light up in really awesome ways that elevate the status of the building. This is because the lights draw you in. However, architectural lighting can do more than just draw you in. There are a few buildings in downtown Pittsburgh that depending on the color of the light on the roof than you know what the weather is. I find that to be super fun and innovative and really transform the way we view and interact with this architectural building itself. Also, who doesn’t want to be able to say that yeah I work in that building that can change colors and light up in all of these super exciting ways?
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