Sunday, February 12, 2012

Touched by Angels

Last night Anth and I hit the big smoke to watch the Australian premiere of the magical Place des Anges, a free aerial show, where "angels" suspended 120 metres above the streets of Perth "flew" through the night sky and showered the audience below with feathers...two tonnes of feathers to be precise. It was awesome. Magical and moving. I am so glad we went, if you get the opportunity promise me you'll go too.


I am such a silly duffer! It wasn't until we were about to park the car that I discovered that the battery in our camera needed charging. Insert swear word here. The photos I'm about to show you were taken with Anthony's very cheap/basic/crappy mobile. One or two are surprisingly good. Although I don't think photos do the performance justice really, even the professional ones I've seen fail to capture just how spectacular the angels looked against Perth's beautiful modernist Council House

had to show you a pic
I love this building.
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`or the reaction of the crowd to the spectacle above and, by the end of the performance, all around them. Talk about seeing things through the eyes of a child...for 30 minutes I felt like I was six years old! Forty years younger, waaaaay better than any face lift!

Anyway, here are Anthony's pics

Angel flying through the sky, feathers in tow

They're feathers btw, not fireworks or an exploding building!

 As you can see we were very close to the action, this angel was descending from the sky and landed (ever so lightly) on the ground in front of us. The large white shape in the foreground is an enormous "balloon" angel which floated and bobbed among the crowd. I think this photo is rather special...don't you?

A blurry photo but another look at the balloon,
that's St Georges Cathedral in the background.

Another beautiful angel on her way down from heaven

The next photo is not one of ours, it was taken in Buenos Aries (2010), but I wanted to show you a pic of the aftermath and what it was like to be among all those feathers.

Joy!

 And here I am feathers, not flowers in my hair...

not the greatest photo of me, but what the heck! I'm including it...I'm still finding feathers in the strangest places! It took me ages to get them out of my hair, there's probably a few still there!


x

26 comments:

  1. That looks so cool I love it. I hope it comes to the Brisbane Festival.

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  2. I heard about this from some friends who were also there - it looks and sounds amazing!! Go Perth :-D

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  3. WOW! Very beautiful. I missed the opening this year. I want to see a few festival shows but they're always so damn expensive.

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  4. Wow, that looks amazing - what a spectacle. Someone had a big sweep up job in the morning. Mind you, the balloon angel does have just a shade of the Stay Puft marshmallow man from Ghost Busters!

    x

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  5. What a fabulous idea, it sounds great. I agree with you about that photo. xxx

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  6. Love that you're keeping the feathers in a labelled jar. Looks mystical and magical.

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  7. how magical is this post, really? i am so thrilled, just by the images alone... oh my. i hope angels fly all the way to belgium. i want to see them too. i want to pluck feathers out of all sorts of crevices too.
    wait a minute. perhaps not...
    lovely, lovely though!
    n♥

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  8. Ooooh Sorry we missed this , looks so magical.

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  9. I have friends in Perth I hope they went to see this, it looks wonderful.Do you think they might fly over to the U.K. :)
    Cate.

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  10. wow that looks fabulous! You look so happy!

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  11. Morning GORGEOUS....!

    I so hope these Angels come to Melbourne....I PROMISE I'll go if they do....!!

    I ADORE the feeling I get when watching fireworks & can only imagine the MAGICAL spectical these ethereal creatures must create....!!!!!

    THANKS so much for sharing with us....!!

    Have a GREAT week....!!

    Cheers,
    Tamarah :o)

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  12. how incredible! it looks so magical... x

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  13. Wow - what a spectacular show. It looks out of this world. I don't think we would ever get to see something like that here - there would never be any guarantee that the weather would behave for it!

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  14. How unbelievably cool is that! I've never heard of anything like it! Thanks for sharing.

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  15. so magical love the angel pictures....

    Leah x

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  16. Wow, what an incredible festival! How cool that you have a little jar full of angels feathers too. Perth sure is a pretty cool place, Tam x

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  17. What a cool event! I don't remember the last time I went into the city.

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  18. That is amazing. Kylie...all those feathers! What fun! ♥

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  19. Wow that looks like a magical event, You look so sweet bless you ;-)) I have managed to get you 4 ladybird books on my travels this weekend i wont tell you what they are i will keep it a suprise unless you would like to know ;-) Would you be able to email me your address please and i will post them to you by the end of the week. dee x

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  20. They were still raking up feathers Monday at lunchtime in the city LOL

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  21. Very cool - I've heard all about it from others who went and my sister freaked out when (the following day) she got out of a bus in the city and saw the feathers everywhere... she was thinking weird nuclear fallout!! I'm trying to make a plan to go!! Thanks and very sweet idea to jar the feathers! :-)

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  22. Aww, Kylie thanks so much! You're so sweet. I have a little package for you as well! I think I have your address in an old email. Will pop it in the mail some time this week.
    The aerial show looks amazing!! And I love how you kept the angel feathers!

    x Aliya

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  23. WOW that's amazing stuff - looked like a splendid event.
    Happy Valentines day to you and yours,
    Axox

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  24. Wow Kylie, thanks so much for taking us there. I had not heard of this being done before - amazing. Yes, if I ever get a chance I will go without a doubt.

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  25. Not pretentious enough for Sydney. My foray into our festival was looking a giant blow-up PVC doughnut that was supposed to represent the meaning of life. Give me feathers any time.

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  26. What a great night and sweet pic of you.

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