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Geek Graffiti Takes On New York
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lunna replied on Fri Apr 7, 2006 @ 4:14pm |
 Coolness: 77980 | "NEW YORK -- The group of 12 graffiti artists surrounds its target, a sculpture in Manhattan known as The Cube, and waits for the signal to begin tagging it up. It's a daunting task -- the 15-foot sculpture in Astor Place was recently coated with anti-graffiti paint.
But within seconds, The Cube is covered in LED Throwies, the latest innovation from the Graffiti Research Lab, or GRL, an open-source think tank dedicated to developing new methods and tools for street artists. Despite its coating of Acrolon paint and extra lacquer, the metallic sculpture isn't protected from the magnetic, multicolored LEDs, which attach themselves to every surface. The commotion soon attracts a crowd of passersby, and suddenly everyone, including kids, are throwing Throwies. The GRL was started by graffiti writers Q-Branch and Fi5e after a brainstorm on, among other things, how to get around anti-graffiti paint. LED Throwies, which cost only 75 cents to make and stay bright for two weeks, often bounce off their targets instead of sticking. Members of the crowd pull down the magnetic LEDs and throw them up again wherever they see fit. Some loft the Throwies onto other metallic structures nearby. That's why they call them Throwies and not Stickies. Another development is the Electro-Graf, a technique that lets street artists embed LEDs, motors, solar panels or other electrical objects into a wall using conductive spray paint. Electro-Graf techniques give traditional tags a vibrant shine or even moving parts." ~David Cohn~ LED Throwies |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» xbsd replied on Fri Apr 7, 2006 @ 4:31pm |
 Coolness: 76715 | whoa!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» kwickStah replied on Fri Apr 7, 2006 @ 5:21pm |
 Coolness: 65515 | hey jai vue un vidéo la dessus ya pas longtemps... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk replied on Fri Apr 7, 2006 @ 5:48pm |
 Coolness: 126740 | its done by this pretty cool crew you guys can check out at [ www.graffitiresearchlab.com ]
theres should be a few videos available of them in action |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Holly_Golightly replied on Mon Apr 10, 2006 @ 11:21am |
 Coolness: 158705 | haha! that is funny! because when i started reading the article i was like:i rode by this street on last saturday night and the cube was black as normal!!ha! i would like to see it when it's gonna happen next time! = cool pics & video..
i,m gonna check that on web that u propose soyfunk! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk replied on Mon Apr 10, 2006 @ 11:57pm |
| Coolness: 126740 | there's more than one crew doing this now
but they use a super duper projector and project a tag being done or whatever visuals ontop of monuments and huge buildings imagine looking at a building downtown and there's giant glowing tag appearing it's not illegal either since nothing is actually being damaged |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Holly_Golightly replied on Tue Apr 11, 2006 @ 12:31am |
| Coolness: 158705 | c genial! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» gfdsgfdsgfdsgre replied on Tue Apr 11, 2006 @ 2:25am |
| Coolness: 34815 | Cool wanna make one my self i found instruktions on the website 8) would be fun to try :D |
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