On our way out to pick up some food this evening, we observed three items presumably of holiday decoration. In order of progressive bizarreness:
1) Some men were putting lights in, to shine up from the grates in the ground. Plain white lights. Why?
2) On the local big old church (every town here has a big old church except when it’s a cathedral or a basilica) they were projecting an image of … marble? texture? Any way, it may the whole thing look as it were rotting away. And every so often a recording would play of a lion’s roar. Again, why?
3) There are wires strung across the pathway in the Centrum, each supporting a can light that projects a circle full of rows of words down onto the ground. The words say things like
WONDERFULWONDERFULWONDERFUL”
(in English, mind you) or other encomiums: EXCELLENT, GREAT, and so on. Except we spotted one with a line that read:
and another that said
I think maybe someone snuck in and hacked the town Christmas decor.
Love the idea of hacked decor, but I’m as stumped as you as to the why of any of it. Can’t wait until you find out with the deal is, especially with the rotting roaring churches. ~LA
The lights on the floor aren’t Christmas decorations, they’re part of an art project. More info (in Dutch) on this page:
http://www.eindhoven.nl/web/show/id=352193/contentid=34729
I’d hazard to guess that the plain whit e lights under the grate s are part of the same festival. The marble & roar sounds like art too, which may or may not be related, I don’t know.