Graffiti Research Lab's L.A.S.E.R. Tag

Lessee here, we've got lasers, creative input devices, a "stick it to The Man" aesthetic and a Mooninite -- sounds like a successful night of hacking to us. Graffiti Research Lab and friends hacked together a high powered projector with some computer components and a camera to track the writings of a 60mW Green Laser on the side of a building in Rotterdam and project it as blue graffiti. The resulting art looks surprisingly good, and the perpetrators were kind enough to document the event, along with providing instructions for doing up your own version. It's hard to describe, so we recommend peeping the video after the break, or the better quality vids and pics over at the read link.

[Thanks, Teferri]

[rawr @ Feb 20th 2007 1:51PM]

Somebody warn Boston!

[akintz @ Feb 20th 2007 1:55PM]

That.
Is.
Awesome.

Could be a cool advertising setup for a large event or show maybe. That is... assuming you had a nice sized building to show it on. :)

[Arno @ Feb 20th 2007 1:58PM]

That is so awesome!

[capn @ Feb 20th 2007 1:58PM]

YES

[Tyme @ Feb 20th 2007 2:02PM]

omg i want to do that....
like even just in my own room...
thats soooooo cool

[Jeff @ Feb 20th 2007 2:07PM]

Hands down, that is the coolest thing I've seen in some time.

And, yes, although the Boston joke might seem too easy, it's still a good thing they try this there. Although, I do hear good things about Gitmo's food.

[Juice @ Feb 20th 2007 2:11PM]

SO COOL!!!!!!!!!

[Michael @ Feb 20th 2007 3:07PM]

"Somebody better warn Boston!"

You're right! Before somebody puts "All Your Base Are Belong To Us," or, "Somebody set up us the bomb," or even worse, "Yankees: World Champs in 2007!" on one of their buildings. Perhaps the best (worst?) would be to project a shooter game on it, and point the gun and one of the guys in the window to see if he hits the deck spread-eagle.

There would be Mass Chaos.

...all joking aside, with a little refinement and proper implementation (ooo, buzzwords?), this could be a pretty sweet thing in the world of advertising.

[tiuk @ Feb 20th 2007 3:31PM]

That's really, really cool. I imagine it'd be quite a sight in person.

[Ayle @ Feb 20th 2007 3:50PM]

What did the police do?

[ben @ Feb 20th 2007 3:56PM]

It would be cool if they did that from a helicopter over a field and projected it downward. you herd it here first.

[srw @ Feb 20th 2007 5:50PM]

What if someone looks out one of the windows, would it damage their eyes?

[gewoonbob @ Feb 20th 2007 7:03PM]

there's no1 @ da building, it' a businezzbuilding op kpn [post&telecom]@ da southside of rotterdam

[ztruempy @ Feb 20th 2007 7:33PM]

What's with the repeated appearance of "jihad"??

[Alex @ Feb 20th 2007 8:09PM]

That's amazing...I can't wait until this gets big (if it does). They should make one that will work in the morning.

[PeteC @ Feb 21st 2007 12:40PM]

Some more info here including a shot of the software and some explanation:

http://muonics.net/blog/index.php?postid=15

[ForumMaster @ Feb 21st 2007 12:53PM]

sweet! boston will sue them soon enough...

[Fuzz @ Feb 23rd 2007 2:02PM]

Would be cool if they took it further so that different color lasers projected a different color.

[sugar @ Feb 26th 2007 8:45AM]

cool

[Nocturnal @ Feb 28th 2007 1:57PM]

Would love to see that here in the states.

[Nocturnal @ Feb 28th 2007 2:13PM]

Would love to see that here in the states. Is my comment going through?

[Zumbrota @ Mar 2nd 2007 5:00PM]

This reminds me of something I ran across in SoCal. -- http://www.guerillalight.com
She's using software called Kaleidica that's at http://www.visualinstrument.com shot through a high powered projector onto buildings and watertowers and random roadside stuff in the desert.

It's weird driving through the Mojave and seeing psychedelic trip happening against a cliff.

z

[kevjohn @ Mar 15th 2007 6:32PM]

You could put somebody's eye out with that thing.

[kevjohn @ Mar 15th 2007 6:33PM]

You could put somebody's eye out with that thing.