The Digital Greenhouse: Interactive Illumination, I Am In You!
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Level up, suckers! This digital greenhouse takes the illuminations game to a whole new level.
First of all, you can go inside and LIVE THE KALEIDOSCOPIC DREAM. (Me, fainting from the sheer grandiosity of being surrounded by fantasmic whooshing LEDs.)
But that’s not all. You can trigger new musical sounds and light patterns by touching the live veggie plants inside. (Yes. Dying. Going to heaven.) Seriously, isn’t this what you always wished illuminations could be?
But don’t take my word for it – here’s a clip of it, from the outside.
But enough of that, let’s go in!
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At first it’s just all sparkly
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Then the music and lights begin to pulse and glow
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Vines snake out from the planter boxes
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And bloom into big poppy-ish flowers
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And then the light show begins, cycling through birds flying overhead and a rainbow aurora of light
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That was worth a trip to Tokyo, right? But hang on, here’s a two-minute clip of my favorite sequence:
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The greenhouse is lined with planters of real, live vegetables, and official attendants are roaming around to help you figure out how to touch them so they trigger both lights and new sounds. Tomatoes add violins, cabbages insert oboe sounds, and carrots trigger trumpets.
So, you may ask rhetorically, could it get any better? Why yes, it could. Because it’s FREE!
This installation is called “Digital Vegetables,” and it was made by up-and-coming design studio PARTY. If you’re in Tokyo and want to see it for yourself, it’ll be at Tokyo Midtown until November 15, 2017. There’s a map on my website, The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had.
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