Image credit: Mary K.

For the first time in the five year history of SPARKcon, there will be a photoSPARK – showcasing the works of local and regional photographers. When making the rounds this weekend, be sure stop by the Fish Market to see the printed and digitally-projected works of some very talented individuals.

Goodnight Raleigh has received  reports about some colorful activity observed on Hillsborough St. last night. “I saw hundreds — make that, thousands — of colors emanating from the D.H. Hill Library book tower. They were moving back and forth, to and fro, mixing and blending — it was quite a sight!” one passerby told us. No, our source was not experiencing an encounter of the third kind, nor an ‘encounter’ of any other kind. What he witnessed was the first testing of the lighting sequencing of the famed Joe Cox Color Wall.

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If you peer in to a small hidden window on the News & Observer building on Salisbury Street, you can see giant spindles of paper before being printed and cut.