I spent most of the day near the Gardens by the Bay and the Marina Bay Sands.  The Gardens by the Bay is a big garden area with big art and sprawling gardens.  They have these huge metal and plant trees called the Super Trees.  You can go up on a floating walkway up in the canopy of the trees.  Near the Gardens by the Bay is the Marina Bay Sands which is a huge hotel, casino, and shopping mall.  I met a few of the people over there to go to the Art Science Museum.

The Art Science Museum is an amazing concept.  It’s dedicated to the mix of art and science.  One of the exhibits they had was on gemstones.  The other was an exhibit of interactive light art.  The first exhibit was a room with a “painting” on the wall.  It was flowers that grew, bloomed, and then the petals blew away.  Butterflies also came out of the flowers.   Then as the painting moved, the parts that moved off the painting became blurry and went up the walls, ceiling and floor consuming the entire room.  There’s a short video of the “painting”.  There were rooms where kids could draw things and what they drew then became part of a movie on the screen behind them.  One was an ocean scene with fish swimming around.  The fish were all the drawings kids had made.  Another was a table and things were projected onto the table – gnomes, rain, flowers, butterflies, ladders, etc.  If the gnomes were on the table and you put your hand down, they interacted with your hand by jumping over it, going around it or one time they set up a ladder and crawled up Amie’s arm.  You could catch the rain in your hand and divert it somewhere else on the table.  It seemed like there were an endless number of interactions.  Sorry, no video of this one.  There were some other exhibits, but the final one was a room you walked through with hundreds, maybe thousands of lights.  They moved to the music, change colors, and moved through the room.  It was supposed to mimic the way particles and light behave in space.  I could have stayed in here for ever.  I posted three way too short videos for this.  It reminded me of the Cubitron at Burning Man a few years ago, but way better.

Amie and I hung out the rest of the afternoon.  We walked around the gardens as it was getting dark.  I found the floating baby statue.  It’s called Planet.  Not sure why.  It was too dark to get a good photo or I’m just bad at night photos.  Then we went up to the Marina Bay Sands at night.  You can pay to go to the observation deck or you can go to the lounge and have a drink (with the price of drinks here, it’s about the same).  The Marina Bay Sands has the largest infinity pool in the world (or the longest or the highest or something like that).  I got a really bad photo of it, but you get the idea.  Of course, people not staying in the hotel can’t get very near the pool.  You can only marvel at it from afar.  The rooms run about $600 a night and up.  The view of the city is amazing from the top (56 floors?).

Out in front of the mall that is attached to the hotel they do a water and light show every night.  After drinks we went down to watch it.  They spray a thin wall of water and then project a video and lasers on to it.  It’s all set to music too.  In general, I didn’t find the show to be too exciting, but the concept of projecting video onto water was brilliant.  I added a short video of that too.

I think I’m in love with Singapore.

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