Blinkenlights Reloaded - The Matrix Returns

An anonymous reader writes "On the occasion of this year's Chaos Communication Congress some hackers of the German CCC have set up another Blinkenlights installation in Berlin (they use the glass facade of a house as a giant computer screen). It is on the same house as from September 2001 till February 2002 but with similar capabilities to the installation in Paris in September/October 2002. Heise has a story about this (German, here's the Google translation), but actually there's better information on the project website itself."

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Paris Movies

[semaj]

While the server's out for the count, you may wish to watch some clips from the last one they did in Paris:

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/Blinkenlights/

Damn cool.

"Blinkenlights Reloaded uses the technology we have developed for Arcade in Paris last year. That means greyscales. Version 3 of BlinkenPaint supports this as well as our new movie file format BML."

So it'll look pretty similar, I imagine.

One Christmas in London...

[futuramarama]

I was walking past Selfridges dept. store and noticed their Christmas Lights display. It looked like the worst kind of modern art: a series of identical objects stacked against the window, with lights flashing randomly over them.

But as I was going home by bus, I was far enough away (and the traffic jam gave me plenty of time to look) to notice the lights were using the objects as a billboard to scroll messages.

It was wonderfully impressive to witness, even on that small scale.