If I had to pick my favourite showcase of the night, it would have to be The World’s Slowest SMS Billboard. How it works was that festival-goers could send an SMS to from their mobile phone to the Billboard which will display the message for all to read. Sounds like a normal billboard? Well, except that the messages are manually-assembled by a team of energetic “messengers”. I wondered to myself if there were any proposals that night. It would have been nice.  Blog royalty Pat Law gives her take on it here.

http://blankanvas.bypatlaw.com/the-artist/the-worlds-slowest-sms-billboard/2010/07/20/

The highlight of the night was hands down Paraboles 2.0, a Singaporean-French collaboration between Compagnie Off and Vectric Thng. The six three-storey high satellite dishes parked in front of the museum were hard to miss. Reaching for the skies, as they lighted up, accompanied with surreal sounds makes you just want to scream “Beam me up, Scotty!”

The end the night saw no romantic hand-holding, T-Rexes coming to life, talking pictures or ghostly apparitions. But at its third consecutive run, I thought that the Night Festival was nothing short of eventful. Sign me up for the next one! Whoever said a fun night out had to be alcohol-induced?

Night Festival took place on 16 and 17 July 2010, at National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, SAM at 8Q, Peranakan Museum, The Substation, SMU Campus Green, Fort Canning Park and 60 Waterloo Street.

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