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Random Thoughts is an impressionistic tribute in glass to a healthy mind, made of hundreds of pieces of hand- made glass suggesting a neuron and its nucleus, axons, and dendrites. Commissioned by the Percent For Art Program, City of New Orleans, for the Algiers Regional Library.
Apparently, a construction worker decided to hang up this headshot of Anna Pinna. Who Anna Pinna is, I have no clue. Still, there you go.
(Actually, like everyone else on the planet, Anna has a web site. Still, why her picture smiles back at me is anyone's guess.)
The long stretch of windows fronting the Wellcome Trust in London plays host to a series of installations: the latest is an interactive light piece by rAndom International...
Reflex is the seventh of the Trust's annual installations and reacts to pedestrians passing by its premises on the Euston Road. It emulates 'swarming behaviour' and is apparently based on an algorithm developed to replicate the collective decision making seen in large groups of creatures such as birds or ants.
The piece is constructed from hundreds of brass rods and thousands of LEDs arranged on small custom chips. Reflex recreates 'stigmergy', the Wellcome Trust explain, whereby traces left by random actions stimulate further actions that build on one another, leading to the spontaneous emergence of apparently patterned activity.
I'm not sure if this really counts as random since I used to have these as a kid in Hong Kong. Although I remembered it to be sweeter.
Did this image with quite the same technique I used on my Assassin's Creed image. I just liked the blending that this kind of lines add to images.
I also added a gradient at the bottom layer so as not to darken so much the image.