Ben Thompson – Digital Media

LED drop

15.03.2011 (12:45 am) – Filed under: media in public

following on from my hidden pavement post i made some LED droppies to slip through the grating and illuminate the underground walkway. i went down to the quayside under the cover of darkness with james davoll‘s spirit in tow and dropped my pre-made LEDs down into the shadowy depths…

…the result was not amazing.

…the general public were drunkenly present…

…they did not notice the “blinding light” from below…

…neither did my camera really…

so, lessons have been learned… use brighter LEDS, possibly fashion some weighting mechanism so they point up, take a better camera…more LEDs?

also… i felt like i was littering (i was)… i didn’t want any police or bomb squad attention… and once the LEDs had been dropped, (with minimal/no success), i released i had pretty much dropped money down the drain (albeit not very much, but still…)

worth a shot though eh….

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