By Freya Noble Sydney's extravagant VIVID light festival hit the harbour city with a bang during its Friday night debut. The Opera House was lit up in galactic-inspired designs, surreal snakeskin and multi-coloured digital patterns, with one stage of the sequence looking as though Jackson Pollock has taken to the landmark with his famous abstract paintbrush. Cars with 'feelings', large inflatable animals and an interactive xylophone are just some of the weird and wonderful light displays at this year's festival. Festival of colour: Sydney's iconic Opera House is transformed by projections of butterfly wings on the first night of the Vivid Festival which attracts tens of thousands of people
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The sails of the Opera House have been illuminated with multicoloured digital, floral and out of this world designs
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The festival opened at 6pm, and an indigenous smoking ceremony was held aboard a ferry to cleanse the harbour
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Vivid runs until June 9
Crowd pleaser: @placeholder attracted masses of people on it's debut night