Electric Forest part 2: at night...

 There's really not much to say about these woods except you should go next year, get lost for hours and see for yourself. Walking through the Sherwood Forest at night mind-boggles everyone in a different way. All of these images were taken on the two main paths which lead off in many directions towards interactive installations involving light and sound.

A really cool connection was made the last day we were there involving Stephen and I meeting the person responsible for the triangle (come to find out, entitled the "Whompilator") in the second to last photo. We were hanging out in the artist lounge one afternoon with our friends from Papadosio (I have to throw that in there cause they are amazing... *and so was the artist lounge pool*) and a guy came up to Stephen and asked if he remembered him. Come to find out, his name is Brian Pinkham and they went to high school together. He plays a heavy role in the artist collab Photonic Bliss, responsible for making some seriously badass light installations! If you don't already know, my Stephen makes LED hula hoops under the name LEDCreations on Etsy. He and Brian, never having really communicated in high school found themselves connected in so many ways at once. The forest felt really small and powerful all of a sudden, it was a pretty amazing thing to witness. I'm sure their paths will cross again.

On a related note, Papadosio is putting on their festival Rootwire in Logan, Ohio - this August 4th. It's going to be an amazing family gathering of artistic people. I'm so excited to attend. Stephen has been working on a project for that weekend - double dutch jump ropes with LEDs inside! Could quite possibly be too cool for school...