{"id":1185,"date":"2011-11-24T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2011-11-24T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:42:36","slug":"lumiere-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Lumiere Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, we went to visit the Lumiere festival at Durham. <\/p>\n<p>Lumiere is a four day (or &#8211; more accurately &#8211; four<em> night<\/em>) arts event, featuring a bunch of light-based works by a collection of international artists. I took my trusty camcorder along, and made this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EsUUhxQHEPA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We did have a *slight* sense of trepidation before the visit. If you took the vistor feedback on the festival website at face value, you would probably be expecting scenes of crowd-crush bedlam and bodies floating down the river Wear&#8230; but &#8212; fortunately &#8212; our <strong>actual<\/strong> experience wasn&#8217;t anything like that at all. We visited at 8pm on the Sunday, drove straight into a space at the free park-and-walk on the outskirts of town, had a pleasant stroll around all the installations (it was surprisingly warm for a mid-November night!), and the only delay we encountered all night was a 10 minute queue to get through the front door of the Cathedral. Totally stress-free visit.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed Lumiere a lot; it was fascinating to see familiar Durham landmarks transformed into large-scale works of art. The Marquess of Londonderry&#8217;s Statue encased in a ginormous snow globe, a manic 8bit chip-tune disco in Wharton park, and the images of Durham Cathedral Cloisters transformed into a sprawling steampunk fire garden are just a few of the memories that will persist for a <strong>very<\/strong> long time indeed. Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second Lumiere to be held in Durham (the first was in 2009), and I hope they do another one in spite of all the whingers&#8230; it&#8217;s great to see an arts event on this scale in the North East &#8211; Roll on 2013!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased with how the video came out&#8230; it was all shot without the aid of a tripod, and the camera&#8217;s low-lux \/ spotlight modes coped pretty well with the tricky lighting conditions. This is, unfortunately, edit number 2&#8230; YouTube balked at my original choice of soundtrack (<em>Apoptygma Berserk<\/em>&#8216;s cover version of &#8220;Electricity&#8221; &#8211; which matched the footage *perfectly*) &#8230; so I re-cut everything to a creative-commons licensed tune to keep the copyright police happy. Pity. I&#8217;ll just have to keep the (vastly superior) director&#8217;s cut in the archives for now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update: while writing this post, I got a tweet from the festival organisers to say they&#8217;re featuring my &#8220;film&#8221; on the front page of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lumieredurham.co.uk\/\">Lumiere website<\/a> (woot!). Finally, my work is picked up by a major international arts festival *cough* \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, we went to visit the Lumiere festival at Durham. Lumiere is a four day (or &#8211; more accurately &#8211; four night) arts event, featuring a bunch of light-based works by a collection of international artists. 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