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Painting Political Graffiti With Light
Johnny Fusion writes "American Graffiti has found an interesting
way to plaster political messages across large buildings and doing no damage. They use light. The website
is a little vague on the technology involved. The front page refers to the projection as a "light board", and the
press release says they use high-powered digital projectors.
The end result is a 40' x 120' billboard of light that is even less permanent than a bicycle spraying chalk messages.
Despite the name, George Lucas has nothing to do with it, so you can be
assured that the slogans will not be retroactively changed after the election."
What's the point of lighting up an empty parking lot and near-empty streets? Not very brave, these guys... If they did it on the White House, I'd be impressed.
I'm not an American, so I wonder about the following points: What would happen to these guys if they got 'caught'? What laws would they be breaking?
for great justice
though, university students around the world have done this before.
but with porn. heheeehehe.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
... batman
Bush doesn't Matter
There are A LOT of people who'd be very happy if that was true...
nice, so the technology is here and we can finally project in the sky,
:-)
.. and by the way
"Kerry is a moron"
(as if god made his decisition
sorry guys i don't wanna be offensive, but it speaks from my heart..
== SAT TESTS ==
George W. Bush -> 1260
John Kerry -> 1190
so its official anyway
Protesters have been using laser-projected slogans on the mountains around Davos many years ago in Switzerland.
Bush cheated on his SAT.
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They are not just painting political graffiti with light. They are against Bush.
It's unprecedented: There are 44 well-funded groups against Bush. There are more than 3 movies and more than 35 books about Bush Administration corruption.
Magazines like The Nation are against Bush: 100 Facts and 1 Opinion -- The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
There are hundreds of web sites like Dubya Speak, that talk about some negative aspect of Bush's personality. Dubya Speak quotes Bush: "It's only fair if other countries treat us the way they treat them." If he meant, "It's only fair if other countries treat us the way we treat them", that is something important about which George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden agree.
Foreign leaders and politicians call Bush a "moron" and an "idiot".
George W. Bush is certainly the most disliked U.S. president in history.
If I remember correctly, there were, in the early years, four major books published about Clinton. They said Cliton was having sex with slutty women. They tried to find something wrong with his small losing investment called Whitewater. They said he may have, at some time during his being governor of Arkansas, associated with people who later turned out to be involved in questionable activities. Someone in his adminstration committed suicide. The books were interesting, but a little lame.
The books about Bush are different. The books about Bush are about major governmental corruption.
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Gotta love taking digs at Lucas.
I wonder if there are any laws regarding taking a projector and showing a publically released movie perhaps on the White House? Say Fahrenheit 9/11, if it were to be publically released.
I'm real curious about the laws concerning this. It's true that it doesn't leave damage, but still, you're trespassing on someone's property with light.
Foreign leaders and politicians call Bush a "moron" and an "idiot"
According to a Brazillian journalist (who was friends with the president of Brazil), when Bush met with his Brazillian counterpart, he asked "Do you have blacks, too?"
Considering that Brazil has a huge black population...
Of coarse the White House denies it. But it's funny as hell.
Snopes says "undetermined"
Carbon Dioxide Lasers. Works great on politcal opponents as well.
And these guys went to Yale? Both their scores are pathetic, considering they were born & bred to run the world. Just further proof this country is no merritocracy.
Bush is gonna win big time (due to eVote and other "make-sure" techniques)
and then after four years Schwarzenegger will continue as the next Republican emperor, eh.. president
(Referring to this)
People actually think Kerry will fix oil prices? what a joke. And now they're blaming the flu vaccine shortage on him? ugh
There was a lot of talk recently about 'osama makes sense'. Well here's some recent sense made of osama.
/. Osama Bin Laden 'terror tape'. It seems that when Osama spoke of states, he was not refering to nation states, but rather those of the USA that would cast electoral votes for Bush. I'm waiting to hear from Kerry on this. It seems he has run a poll.
The New York Post reports on 2nd pass translations of the recently discussed on
How do people who were planning to vote for Kerry feel about these threats? I mean if your state doesn't carry, it's not your fault. Yet, you're still a member of the threatened group, namely voters in that state.
Do not look into LASER with remaining eye!
Bush is the most disliked US president in history. -- apparently you haven't been around too long, eh?
You continually make comments where you show a general lack of technical and real world knowledge.
Let's be honest. Read through your prior comments; you come off as a 15 year old or something. Take some time away from the interweb, become a man (aka, grow up) and come on back to us.
The irony is that probably the only other president despised by so many Americans was Lincoln, one of our best. I guess that explains why Republicans are ready to deify Dubya and proclaim him the greatest president in US history. They must figure that anyone so hated and despised, both at home and abroad, _must_ be worthy of great honor.
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Krzysztof Wodiczko was doing this since the seventies I believe. He projected Third Reich styled swastika emblems onto the South African embassy for one.
But maybe no one could remember how to spell his name so everyone just forgot about it. Seven consonants in a row spells trouble...trzxscrouble.
It's not graffiti though. Graffiti isn't a play with signs and within the code; graffiti is supposed to smash the code.
Because I wrote the summary to be about the technology used, not the message. It is the novel use of technology that I thought would have slashdot appeal.
This is just another example of slashdot shilling so hard for their side. Didn't Taco say this section was going to be fair?
You can't win if you don't play. Submit something interesting that Bush supporters are doing that you would think would appeal to slashdot.
Will this Graffiti technology be used for pro-Bush messages?
I see no reason why it couldn't. But don't expect American Graffiti to do it for you. You still have about 20 hours or so before the polls open to get something together if you want...
There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.
My my, the anti-Bush crowd is working themselves up into quite a froth. We haven't seen this level of insanity since the 1984 presidential election with Reagan.
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
Bush actually scored 1206. You got the numbers mixed up there, bud. A sixteen-point difference really means nothing.
Sure, innocent mistake...
The above is a Republican's idea of mature political discussion.
My guess is that you have not read even one of the books about corruption.
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George W. Bush's brother was shown in a lawsuit deposition on 20/20 talking about his prostitutes and using government influence to make money. Family values?
This is cool, but could it be improved with a laser? I've seen some that can produce messages, but does anyone know anythat could produce text and images on such a large scale?
Pessimists.net - as if life wasn't depressing enough.
or are these guys basically real-world trolls? I mean, I don't like Bush either, but projecting an image of his face with "loser" across the forehead isn't really going to change anyone's mind, or inspire any intelligent discussion... it's just going to piss people off.
Which is probably what this group is aiming for.
Love the Third Amendment?
Man, I can't wait until the election is over.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
If you truly love your country, you will not just enjoy the advantages, you will be there for your country when there are problems.
Hey Rayonic :) How was your orgy with j0nb0y and millahtime? Did you get any or did they make you watch again?
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"d'Oh!" ~Homer
like the one on the dollar bill. Someone did this back in the 70's in San Francisco according to Zach Stewart(and old friend of mine who maintained an office nearby).