Neon Rainbow Waterfalls
Rainbows seem to take on liquid form, glowing in the night in these photographs of otherworldly altered waterfalls. Photographers Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard dropped high-powered Cyalume glow sticks in a range of colors down waterfalls and then captured the light trails with long exposure photography for the ‘Neon Luminance’ series.
Rainbow Origami Installations
Explosions of pointed little shapes in rainbow colors splatter across urban surfaces in Hong Kong and Vietnam in these outdoor origami installations by French paper artist Mademoiselle Maurice.
Protest-Sparking Staircases
A public staircase became the scene of a showdown between city officials and the residents of Istanbul after one man painted the stairs in rainbow colors, and workers covered it with gray. Perhaps seeing it as a symbolic power struggle, city residents painted and re-painted the original staircase and others across the city until officials relented and allowed the alterations to remain.