Ronny_Jotten t1_ja92wym wrote
This is supposed to be an art project. The guy seems to be getting a lot of press for it right now. But it's a really old idea. I remember seeing another artist/hacker do the same thing many years ago, can't remember the name. It goes back at least 15 years. There are lots of other versions of it around too, youtube diy videos, even companies selling baseball hats with LEDs for the purpose.
RabbitSlayre t1_jaa723m wrote
Yeah this has been around forever, so confused to see this presented as if it's new
Ronny_Jotten t1_jac9lat wrote
I guess all it takes is an art student who's leaning into the self-promotion, and some "news" sites like Vice, PopSci, etc., that really want you to click on their links.
I mean, he has some other work that's not bad, and it got me to look at his website, so mission accomplished I guess. But it did leave me with the feeling that it's a bit narcissistic to hype something that's such a well-known, decades-old shtick, without acknowledging that. Maybe it's a useful quality in an artist... but it's not a necessary one.
BOONKIEBOY t1_ja9mi17 wrote
this guy?
Ronny_Jotten t1_ja9s2s0 wrote
No, it wasn't that. And I don't think it was Adam Harvey. I'm thinking it was around 2006 or so, but I could be off by a bit. It was really the same, an art project with bright infrared LEDs that washed out the face on nighttime surveillance cameras. But he may not have invented it. The guy who did the hoodie says in another post that he read about the idea in a William Gibson novel.
Papadapalopolous t1_jaaguj5 wrote
Cory Doctorow wrote about it in one of his books in the late ‘00s I think
VikingBorealis t1_ja9v52r wrote
It's ripped straight from csi and/or criminal minds or something as well. And not a late episode either...
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