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Were you lucky enough to be in NYC last night? Thought not.
In case you missed it, the Empire State Building flexed its fancy new Philips Colour Kinetics LED lighting system muscles for its first-ever light show. A myriad of colours sprinkled the sky perfectly in sync with Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire” and “Empire State of Mind”.
The new system can display more than 16 million colours in a variety of ways as evidenced by last night’s show. Earlier this month during the presidential election, CNN commandeered the ESB to display election results.
It’s pretty neat that the ESB has entered into a new era but it kinda makes me think it belongs in Vegas now. [Gawker]
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Not sure what I was expecting but that was pretty underwhelming.
I was expecting it not to be blocked in Germany due to copyright issues. Fuck you, SME, and fuck you, GEMA!
I much preferred it as it was before. Will it be flashing away like that every evening?
I know it’s obviously not blaring out across the whole of NYC but how loud is that audio? were there speakers set up in parks to view/listen to this from?
Or is it maybe played on TV and everyone was told to look at the ESB while the sound came from their TV’s?
Just wondering is all.
Ignore – Just read Gawker article. Was a radiocast… too tired .
Almost as bad as the Shard light show a while ago. We went up to Alexandra Palace to watch it from a distance.
We were expecting this:
http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article7895933.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/shard.jpg
and got this:
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/Pictures/web/r/e/j/shard-light-rehearsal-3-July-201_532.JPG
should have been like this! http://youtu.be/UakDXAhbi2o