Tag Archives: light

Addicted To Health

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday August 10, 2010

In contrast to what’s mostly argued about light signs in public space, I truly believe in their attribution to the urban lay-out. Light signs give valuable information when 

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An Instant Private Moon

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday April 1, 2010

This week Hamburg’s urban intervention and critical lifestyle blog Urbanshit reports about a great project made by the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov. The project called ‘Private…

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Emily, Will You Marry Me?

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday January 26, 2010

Derick Childress spent more than three nights at the Clarion Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, to prepare a wedding proposal for his girlfriend Emily. The project…

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A Bulb Of Crystal Light In Amsterdam

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday November 17, 2009

Dutch artist Giny Vos recently finished her latest light project in Amsterdam. The work called ‘Crystal Palace’ is a magic bulb of light consisting of 256…

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Gaming In The City: Facades As Racing Tracks

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday September 16, 2009

This is just great. It looks so cool from a distance, as if those boring buildings come to life during night. Most brilliant perhaps is the fact that…

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Light Is the New Graffiti

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Sunday August 9, 2009

As you may have noticed, we like to explore the boundaries of contemporary street art. In the past we wrote about topics such as confetti graffiti,

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Urban Pixels: Street Lights of the Future?

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Friday July 3, 2009


Urban Pixels is a project by the MIT Media Lab. This distributed system is built of individual pixels that configure together in a display system.…

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Sexy Tunnel in Amsterdam

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday March 14, 2009

Media architecture collective Urban Alliance created ‘The Moodwall’, close to the Amsterdam Bijlmer subway station. The artwork located in a pedestrian tunnel and has the purpose to make this creepy…

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A Great Tool for Boring Cities: Dial4Light

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday February 26, 2009

If you’re the cashier of a city where no-one ever walks on street by night (a so-called boring city), you can easily save money. Just turn off the street lights…

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