This is what it looks like....

when you have 20,000 people in the streets waiting for the launch of 100,000 paper airplanes from six different buildings. Please enjoy another snippet of the incredible ArtPrize that's been happening in my town for the last week.

The streets were jammed full of people all talking about the same thing....

Airplane launch!

The airplanes were made ahead of time and carried to the tops of the buildings...

and dropped in a synchronized manner...



from the tops of six different buildings....




and it seemed that as soon as an airplane would hit the ground, if it made it to the ground.....

someone, be it a child or an adult, would scoop it up as a souvenir.

It was nothing short of amazing to be standing in the crowded street feeling the excitement of everyone around. As I looked about me I was so very happy and proud to be a resident my city, and yet I wondered, what just happened here? I knew that each of us had made and flown paper airplanes before, thus sharing a common albeit individual experience, but to be a part of this crowd while we watched in unison as the planes flew about us was somehow different. Perhaps it's because we were now sharing the experience as a group. Perhaps it was the weather.

Perhaps it was something in the air?