{"id":470,"date":"2009-07-01T21:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-07-01T21:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:22:46","slug":"you-who-are-getting-obliterated-in-the-dancing-swarm-of-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/general\/you-who-are-getting-obliterated-in-the-dancing-swarm-of-fireflies","title":{"rendered":"You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something light and interesting today!\u00a0 My wife and I went to the Phoenix Art Museum this afternoon, and there were some fascinating pieces.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->One was a piece entitled &#8220;You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies&#8221; by\u00a0Yayoi Kusama.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see if I can try to describe it before giving you a URL.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a completely black room, with mirrors on all surfaces.\u00a0 As you walk (OK, stumble) through the room, you&#8217;re surrounded by a whole bunch of little LED lights hanging from wires.\u00a0 They&#8217;re at all levels, and because everything is mirrored, you perceive that you&#8217;re completely surrounded <em>ad infinitum<\/em> by these lights.\u00a0 And they slowly change color.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite disorienting, but fascinating.\u00a0 It took a minute to collect my brain after getting out of there.<\/p>\n<p>I found a video which does a decent job of showing you what this might look like: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danielgreene\/2554869071\/\">check this out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something light and interesting today!\u00a0 My wife and I went to the Phoenix Art Museum this afternoon, and there were some fascinating pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,12,13],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-470","7":"format-standard","8":"category-general","9":"post_tag-art","10":"post_tag-relaxation","11":"post_tag-stress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}