Not even a year passed and already we created a video to document the work that we (Patrick Dinnen, David McCallum and Gabe Sawhney) did in creating a sound reactive system for the huge balloon field that KPMB installed for last year’s Luminato Festival.
If you’d wandered into Yonge-Dundas square in the heart of downtown Toronto at 1AM Sunday morning you would have seen a strange sight. A couple of hundred people dancing under a huge canopy of colourfully lit balloons. The most striking thing though was the silence, with only the shuffle and stamp of feet on the [...]
The installation of 250 big balloons for Luminato is well underway. It was a late night for the Media Lab Toronto crew (along with the riggers, architects, technicians and engineers who were doing the real work of stringing the things up in the sky). Even though I only got to bed a few hours ago [...]
Some of the Media Lab Toronto gang are hard at work getting ready for a great project. Gabe Sawhney, David MacCallum and Patrick Dinnen are working on an interactive light show to run on a giant canopy of LED lit balloons to be installed above the Yonge-Dundas square for the Luminato Festival. The spectacle will [...]
