Copenhagen: The City of Lights
Yes, I know that that’s Paris. Shh. But seriously, those Danes really know their lights. Take a look at this:
This is Tivoli, the big amusement park slash garden in the middle of Copenhagen. Not only did everything look like this at night, there was also a sound and light show every night shortly before closing. With lasers! And weird soundtrack-like music! And fog machines! It was pretty sweet. When I was there, we went on one ride, but primarily we just wandered around at all the cool scenery. We also went right before sunset, so we saw the transformation from the typical into the illuminated, which was fun.
But Tivoli was by no means the only spectacularly-lit part of Copenhagen. Even something as simple as signage was interesting. There were two neon signs, one for a bank and one for waste management, which had 30-second long sequences of lights and actions, which was unexpected, to say the least. Unfortunately, WordPress won’t let me upload videos. Take my word that they were cool.
Even stationary ads were still impressive. This is from the main square around the city hall.
And yes, the thermometer changed with the temperature. This one was cool too.
Finally, on my last day, I went to the Danish Design Center, which is a place with continually changing exhibits on the various new frontiers of design, architecture, and engineering. And of course, what was the current exhibit? Lighting! Yay! They had all sorts of cool lights from fiber optics to organic light to color changing, pretty much anything you could think of.
Despite being insanely expensive, Copenhagen was pretty awesome. And I did do other things than look at lights, but that was a big part of it. I suppose I saw this, too.
Hurray for the Little Mermaid. Until next time!
