{"id":53,"date":"2007-06-24T22:18:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T22:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/06\/illuminate\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","slug":"illuminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/illuminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather odd set of pictures from a odd evening on the 9th June.  &#8220;Illuminate&#8221; was part of Durham University&#8217;s celebrations of its 175th year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/illuminate\/prince-bishops-parking\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Prince_Bishops_parking-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Bishops parking\" title=\"Prince Bishops parking\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4537\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No, not part of the festival.  A picture of the parking garage beneath the &#8220;Prince Bishops shopping centre&#8221; [54 46 37 N, 1 34 24 W]- an oddly industrial look for the centre of an historic city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/illuminate\/volants-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Volants_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Volants 1\" title=\"Volants 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4539\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/illuminate\/volants-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Volants_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Volants 2\" title=\"Volants 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The climax of the festival; a performance on the old racecourse grounds [54 46 31 N, 1 33 57 W] involving giant inflatables, lights and loud music.  Yes, the company was French (<a title=\"link to les Plasticiens Volants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticiensvolants.com\/gb\/compagnie.htm\">les Plasticiens Volants<\/a>) and yes it was completely incomprehensible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/06\/illuminate\/firework\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Firework-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Firework\" title=\"Firework\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hit and mostly miss attempt to capture the fireworks display afterwards on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather odd set of pictures from a odd evening on the 9th June. &#8220;Illuminate&#8221; was part of Durham University&#8217;s celebrations of its 175th year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[106,80],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic","tag-art","tag-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}