This is an LED bra.Read up about how a marketing campaign using LEDs was misunderstood as a bomb threat.
Stay tuned later in the semester as Nick, Matt, and Iain lead us in a skillshare to make LEDs! Or in the meantime, you can investigate how to build your own. Check out these links:
http://www.makezine.com/blog
http://graffitiresearchlab.com
http://graffitiresearchlab.com
http://imakeprojects.com
http://www.sparkfun.com
http://sub-zero.mit.edu/fbyte
http://www.instructables.com
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Is graffiti art?
"graf·fi·ti (n)
drawings or writing that is scratched, painted, or sprayed on walls or other surfaces in public places (takes a singular or plural verb)"*
The form of graffiti has changed as world communication has changed in scale and method. While spraypaint still heads the pack of graffiti materials, here we see technology determine a simpler form in more complicated means with the rESiStOr project. Some graffiti artists choose to send a literal message, many continue use the world's walls, trains, billboards and anything else big and flat enough for imagery. Subversive methods for mass communication - what are they telling us? Is this just markings along Slomo's path to the subway, or have we all become sleepwalkers, accustomed to repitious formats of superfluous messages...consume, reproduce...ready for new messages of propaganda?
Commercialism is plastered all over our cities and highways. Who says that the information that is systematically spread throughout public environments must be purely for profit? Is this expression the duty or right limited to paid advertisers?
We have gobbled these images our whole lives. It's about time we listen up and OBEY.
http://www.obeygiant.com/
Check out Shepard Fairey's take on "Propaganda Engineering."
Also, has anyone noticed how the US Army has appropriated Fairey's revival of screenprint style propaganda in recent campaigns? Ooooh, that olive-brown, red and yellow star outline motif looks mighty familiar. Way to go you ratso spindoctors! Those future spacemonkeys will buy into anything that "looks" cool.
*Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation.
I think LEDs would be an interesting medium, as by their nature they attract a lot of attention. Whatever they're on instantly attracts the eye.
As for those Lite Brite things that Boston thought were bombs-- wow, some people are really stupid. Because bombs are naturally covered in shiny bright light!
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