A different text is projected on the lighthouse every thirty seconds.© Photo RedMouse
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Delano Good luck
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den Helder
‘I want to stay’, ‘Leave me alone’, Help our pride’, ‘Our DNA’. The cries for help and statements projected on the Lange Jaap lighthouse speak for themselves.
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Jasper Claessens of Pronorm BV from Brabant projects the texts onto the lighthouse with two huge projectors. “It was difficult to adjust. I have to project the lyrics onto the lighthouse from over a hundred yards away. If the image here shifts an inch, it will make a difference of half a meter on the lighthouse.”
The company travels all over the world. Germany, Portugal, Israel…And now in Huisduinen. What makes the job in Den Helder special is that the text has to be projected onto a relatively narrow tower. Den Helder is not unfamiliar territory for the company. ,,We also did Clear Light here”, says Claessens.
In real life
There is no shortage of audiences who want to see for themselves what the lighthouse looks like with projected texts. Everyone loves it and takes pictures. “Hopefully it will have an effect in The Hague,” said a bystander. Minister Mark Harbers will soon make a decision about the future of the lighthouse, which has been neglected for decades and is now threatened with demolition.
Jan Dop, chairman of Huisduiner Belang, beams while looking at the ever-changing texts. “I love this. Of course it remains to be seen how it will turn out. And we couldn’t put too much text on it.”
The texts on the lighthouse are projected on the Lange Jaap for a week, with darkness falling until eleven o’clock in the evening.
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