Artist creates light show with 100,000 old CDs [gallery]

With so many new ways of storing data emerging every day, the truth is that CDs should gradually become as obsolete as old floppy disks. So what to do with the media stacks we have at home that we don't know what to do with?

According to My Modern Metropolis, artist Bruce Munro has decided to use 100, 000 useless CDs to create two different installations in the gardens of Waddesdon Manor Cottage in England. Named Angel of Light and Blue Moon on a Platter (both "Angel of Light" and "Blue Moon in a Tray"), both offer a beautiful light show.

Thousands of CDs

The first of the installations ( Angel of Light ) forms a huge ring road illuminated by LED lamps and through which visitors can stroll. The second of them ( Blue Moon on a Platter ) was mounted in the amphitheater located in the gardens of the house, which was lined with thousands of CDs and has a huge transparent sphere containing 150 fiber optic hoops that illuminate its interior with blue lights.

Both installations will be on display in Waddesdon Manor gardens until January 2013, and you can check out the process of assembling Blue Moon on a Platter in the video above or more images of Munro's works in the following gallery: