1/31/07 – The day the Mooninites won.
A quick tip to the citizenry and local authorities of Boston: today is the 1 year anniversary of your collective freak-out over a guerrilla marketing campaign. So, when looking overhead, possibly on some scaffolding set up in a construction site, and you see some bright blue lights arranged on what can otherwise be called a homemade lite brite, don’t get all hysterical and call the bomb squad, or worse, Mayor Menino.
Nothing against the guy, I just don’t like his voice.
In memoriam, it appears that some artists have put up their own homemade light brites, but this time they’re not using copyrighted characters from a popular late night television show. No, this time they’re using 8-bit remixes of such figures as President Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Peter Berdovsky (one of the guy’s arrested for doing the original Aquateen display), and Sam Travis Ewen (the CEO of the company that commissioned Berdovsky and Sean Stevens for the campaign). While an Osama Bin Laden lite brite probably should at least perturb you, don’t let it get in the way of visiting the various “installations” all around Boston. Head on over to Make:Blog for the pictures and Google maps of the various “tour stops.”
And what about Berdovsky and Stevens, the men famously arrested for installing the original mooninite LED displays? Well, instead of talking about their various hair fancies, this time they’ve gone the more overt route and released a digital postcard (pictured right). The Bostonist has a round up of what the guys are doing currently, as well as a few links to the original news stories.
Okay, everyone take a deep breath. I don’t need another 4 hour delay on I-95 because some robot is blowing up scraps of plastic, diodes, and batteries. Click the “read the rest of this entry” link below to see some pictures and video.
Make:Blog: LED art all over Boston today
Bostonist: Never Forget: First Anniversary of Aqua Teen Day
- Rob O’Reilly
