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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
North Korea's 100,000-person pixelboard
Boing Boing: "Here's an unforeseen benefit of totalitarian states: you can use your absolute authority to require 100,000 people to form a giant human pixel-board"
Man, that's pretty intense. It would have been funny if somehow all the cards were changed to be a different image...you know until you realized that North Korea was missing about 100,000 people the next day...
Wow that's insane! I wonder how much work it took to get that to happen? I mean really... I'm sure it took quite a nice amount of time to do that! I must admit, that is pretty damn awesome.
That's crazy... I wonder if that was a volunteer thing or if they HAD to do that. It's pretty impressive that they got all that together though. I'm glad I'm not choreographing that.
the sheer scale of this project is quite amazing. It is quite the unforseen benefit. Who knows David, perhaps next year's freshman, in an attempt to top the "post its on the shop door" will take over a country and force 100,000 people to make an image of you. Maybe they could make you talk too...
that is pretty amazing, but then again . . . isn't it kind of like a sports stadium in any other part of the world doing the wave. i mean yes it is cool that they made an image out of it but still, mass coordination like this happens all the time at large spoting events, i think the only reason this was a "big deal" is that they made an image, and that it happened in North Korea. they just want to exploit the power of Kim Jung Il.
I don't know what's the fuss about 100,000. South Korea can do so much better with much more people. There were 4,800,000 people watching World Cup in 2002 all in the red shirt, had pixelboard when we were against Italy. http://ce.hannam.ac.kr/~jb7/Library/photos/wcup/again1966.JPG
.......I find this REALLY intimidating.....and makes me wonder just what else they are trying to accomplish with totalitarian control. Especially with the content o the image....just makes you wonder.
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wow...
now if only we can get them to refresh at 60hz, then it might be useful
Man, that's pretty intense. It would have been funny if somehow all the cards were changed to be a different image...you know until you realized that North Korea was missing about 100,000 people the next day...
Wow that's insane! I wonder how much work it took to get that to happen? I mean really... I'm sure it took quite a nice amount of time to do that! I must admit, that is pretty damn awesome.
Oh man.....
That's crazy... I wonder if that was a volunteer thing or if they HAD to do that. It's pretty impressive that they got all that together though. I'm glad I'm not choreographing that.
the sheer scale of this project is quite amazing. It is quite the unforseen benefit. Who knows David, perhaps next year's freshman, in an attempt to top the "post its on the shop door" will take over a country and force 100,000 people to make an image of you. Maybe they could make you talk too...
that is pretty amazing, but then again . . . isn't it kind of like a sports stadium in any other part of the world doing the wave. i mean yes it is cool that they made an image out of it but still, mass coordination like this happens all the time at large spoting events, i think the only reason this was a "big deal" is that they made an image, and that it happened in North Korea. they just want to exploit the power of Kim Jung Il.
I don't know what's the fuss about 100,000. South Korea can do so much better with much more people. There were 4,800,000 people watching World Cup in 2002 all in the red shirt, had pixelboard when we were against Italy. http://ce.hannam.ac.kr/~jb7/Library/photos/wcup/again1966.JPG
.......I find this REALLY intimidating.....and makes me wonder just what else they are trying to accomplish with totalitarian control. Especially with the content o the image....just makes you wonder.
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