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Image of the day: Bike riding on the Van Gogh-Roosegaarde glow-in-the-dark path - The Squid Stories
Two weeks ago an incredibly beautiful tribute to Vincent van Gogh was inaugurated In Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Van Gogh’s birth country): an illuminated bike path that glows in the dark. Just look at the images first, to start imagine the magic of this project. Inspired by the famed Dutch painter’s “Starry Night” work, artist Daan Roosegaarde & Heijmans Infrastructure created a 1-kilometer-long Van Gogh-Roosegaarde cycle path, a glowing solar-powered cycle path that passes through the fields of Van Gogh’s homeland. The path is illuminated by thousands of twinkling stones that feature glow-in-the-dark technology and solar-powered LED lights. “I wanted to create a place that people will experience in a special way, the technical combined with experience, that’s what techno-poetry means to me,” said Roosegaarde in a statement. First glowing Van Gogh-Roosegaarde bicycle path in the world from Studio Roosegaarde on Vimeo. This isn’t the first time Roosegaarde has teamed up with construction-services business Heijmans. Two weeks ago I was at the World Creativity Forum (http://creativityworldforum.be/) in Kortrijk Belgium, and because superstar architect Zaha Hadid …