graffiti labs and some random ‘net musings

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SomehowI stumbled onto some YouTube clips relating to LED throwies, which are being used in some urban areas to “change their surroundings”, by creating magnetic LED lights with appropriate batteries, and then tossing these lights onto magnetic surfaces (ie. buildings). What I haven’t quite worked out is if the majority of the clips on the Internet that show these “throwies” being applied are using purely magetic adheasives. It seems that is may also be possibel to use another substance to apply to glass substances; although that almost takes a destructive or annoyance factor into account. It’s one thing to magnetically adhere to a building with a brightly colored LED, but it’s another thing to use superglue and stick to glass.

Graffiti labs has been involved in some rather interesting approaches in “changing their surroundings”. They have a very powerful laser, a 5000 lumens projector, a laptop, a powerful camera, and some custom software that allows one to write graffiti on the sides of buildings, big trucks, etc by simply using the laser pointer in their hand,  which the camera recognizes and reads back into the software, which then changes instructs the projector to display the drawing on the screen. You can pick the brush style and associated effects, such as dripping paints, etc .. and have this projected directly onto the building; in 50-70 feet abstracts.

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=76#video

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Check out the fun that graffiti labs had with Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo, which is known by many as the “cube”,  at astor place in Manhattan.

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=17#video

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