Blank white streets and skyscrapers become rivers of color in the video Thai design studio Nobik has just released for their 2014 project, Iconsiam. While concert visuals are their bread and butter, Nobik scaled it down for the piece, which features a tabletop city coming alive with pre-programmed projection-mapped visuals. There's a slow burn as the light show gears up, illuminating a road here and a building there, but at about the halfway mark, the mini-opolis explodes in what looks like the illumination equivalent of an earthquake, and only amps up from there. This might be what they mean when they talk about the proverbial, shining "city upon a hill." Watch Iconsiam come to life in full below:
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