Sometimes they rise

AM Radio at IDIA Laboratories

Mr. Radio has confounded us again with an amazing installation at IDIA Laboratories.

The setting, his by now familiar wheat fields in the middle of a prairie. A railroad line bisects the installation, and in true AM Radio style, seems to stretch out to either horizon. Tricking the visual perception is a highlight of an AM Radio build. On the track, a series of five freight cars, covered with graffiti. Wait, the graffiti changes. Movable textures? Perhaps. But here's the trick.

Walk to the table with a can of spray paint. Click on the paint can. A web browser window launches (make sure it is launched in a separate browser call).

In the web browser, you see a Graffiti enabled paint program. Draw something.

In YHN's case, a Double Helix strand of DNA. Web Browser View.

Gaze at the train cars. Soon, one of them is sporting the Graffiti upon it! AMAZING!

Et Voila.. moments later, in world.

The Installation, located at IDIA laboratories, is a wonderful bridge between reality and virtuality. The resulting drawings are excellent, and are being stored at their own FLICKR group.

Here's the Graffiti Train created by the 100 or so cars painted so far.