© Lin Yi & Wen-You Cai
Don't Panic! Lighten Up!
In the early morning hours of June 15, a huge white balloon filled with 6,200 cubic meters of helium slowly ascended into the sky above Huiyu Island Harbour, Quanzhou, China. Attached to it was a 500-meter long ladder coated completely with quick burning fuses and gold fireworks that was then ignited by artist Cai Guo-Qiang (previously) who has become known for his ambitious pyrotechnic artworks.
Titled Sky Ladder, the piece burned for approxmiately 2 minutes and 30 seconds above the harbor and was the fourth and final attempt to realize the performance. Guo-Qiang had earlier attempted Sky Ladder in Bath (1994), Shanghai (2001), and in Los Angeles (2012), to varying degrees of success, but never considered his vision complete until now. Below is a spectacular demonstration of this "stairway to heaven":
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I sense a surge of archeological one-upmanship lately. What do they want to prove to each other, or us ?!?!?
I don't view DARPA or Russian reports about new weapon systems or ongoing developments as anything else than peception management.
Ashes to ashes, bones to dust. R.C.
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the firework displays as building up instead of showering down.