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Kinetic Artwork Attempts to Get a ‘Little Piece of Privacy’
- inetsee 6y agoThis is a cute little art project. https://thisiscolossal.com https://thisiscolossal.com is one of those websites I like enough to have a bookmark on my bookmarks toolbar. Every week or two when I have some free time to spend, I will go to the website and just wander around, looking at the art on display.
- agency 6y agoThis is great. Those curtains are so loud though, they could really use some silent drape runners[1]. [1] https://imgur.com/a/Mzj9QsY https://imgur.com/a/Mzj9QsY
- lostgame 6y agoNadine is low-key one of the best characters in Twin Peaks. Her character arc's resolution in The Return absolutely brought me to tears. One of the most intelligent, irreverent, and powerful series in television history.
- agency 6y agoCouldn’t agree more. I just finished rewatching The Return and it is such an astonishing achievement. I’m still kind of in disbelief that it exists.
- Animats 6y agoCommercial linear induction motors were invented by someone at the Kirsch Company to solve just that problem.[1][2] It was a real product, it sold, but it didn't catch on. [1] https://www.kirsch.com/about-us https://www.kirsch.com/about-us [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=bdgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA163 https://books.google.com/books?id=bdgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA163
- nayuki 6y agoIt's ironic that the artist used a video camera (a rather privacy-invading tool) to detect where the subject is, in order to move the curtain (to shield privacy). A more honest implementation could have used low-resolution ultrasonic proximity sensors or something like that.
- kazagistar 6y agoYeah, that's the intent of the artwork.
- phyzome 6y agoIt's his little piece of privacy, not yours.
- monkpit 6y agoIs the artwork the curtains, or the people’s reactions to it? I’m sure the cctv is perfectly legal wherever this is located and people don’t have expectation of privacy while walking down a city street.
- dontwaitesforme 6y agoSo cute!
- coolspot 6y agoPrevious “discussion”, just a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826002