The Alight festival has more advertisement than the client let on. I have found several websites which are adverting the festival and even selling tickets! A few of the good ones are below:
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/cultural-olympiad/london-2012-festival/
http://www.endcliffeorchestra.org.uk/568/alight-2012-cultural-olympiad-concert
After the CrowdSpeak exercise, I looked into a few of the other user driven, participatory design works out there we were told about.
SPORE
Spore is a video game which is based on the players creating pretty much everything around them. The creatures they play as are custom built, meaning they are, in a way, unique, the houses they live in are built by the player, the world around them, pretty much everything. The world is a blank canvas given to the player to create to game for themselves.
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| Character Creation in Spore |
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| World Creation in Spore |
This is a film produced by Ridley Scott, which shows the true story of a real day on earth. It is filmed by people all over the world, showing their day, on the 24th July 2010. It really expresses life at its raw form, no hollywood glamour, no special effects, just how the world lives each day. Some stories are amazing, happy and full of joy. Children are born, people propose in extraordinary ways, some people get married, some people are reunited. Other stories are not so happy, showing how tough it is to live in poverty and famine. But this documentary was created by the world, not one person, and I think it is amazing!
I also began to think about what the main event, 'Alight Twilight', would look like, what it would feel like, what it would be. Reading the description, it seems quite classical and orchestral.
The picture above if taken from the alight website which I linked a few posts ago. This, to me, shows what to expect from the visuals of the performers. However, there are some performances from artists I don't know about, so a bit more research is in order!
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