So around 10:05 p.m. on Sunday night, I began a stroll over to Samseong-dong's COEX Center and World Trade Tower to see the Wave, the art project/display I'd blogged about earlier. I had thought that the Wave would be an all-day thing, a looped animation dispensing karmic comfort to the soul-weary (or is that Seoul-weary?). As it turned out, the Wave is but a one-minute animation that is part of a whole series of animations that do loop endlessly all day (and night) long. When I arrived at the huge monitor around 10:45, I was disappointed to see a forest scene on display, but I shot a quick video of that, anyway:
Once the forest disappeared, it was replaced by a series of unappetizing ads, but as I suspected, the Wave eventually showed up at almost 11:00 p.m. It caught me by surprise, however, so the following video is missing maybe the first 5 or 10 seconds of the animation. My apologies, but I think you'll enjoy what I did film:
The Wave did indeed look impressive up close. Too bad it doesn't loop all day long. And too bad you're once again seeing this lovely artwork through a camera's lens instead of with your own eyes. If you're in Seoul, go visit the COEX center and wait around until the Wave appears. You won't regret making the trip.
I took some other pics while I was out in the drizzling rain:
My cell-phone camera sucks for nighttime shooting, but there we are.
That's really cool. What they need now are some water jets to provide the feeling of ocean spray in your face...
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