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This is future of the street art. Mount it using liquid nails to some place that is hard to access and point it somewhere where lots of people will see it during rush hour.

Eg.: You can install it in such way that parliament building will get defaced every day during lunch hours by mounting on near building or tall lamp post. Or maybe put it on your own roof, that way nobody can remove it :-)

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Word of warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#2007_Bo...

Wild, the police thought that the LED display, that had already been up for 4 weeks, might be a bomb, and then they somehow spent a million dollars handling the 'threat'.

Wilder still, Turner bought off the police after for 2 million dollars, and then censored the creators from releasing an episode critical of the Boston police response.

If you ask yourself where the money comes from, who gets to decides to spend it, and how much fun the police had playing with their toys, it all seems to make good sense.

That piece was done by my (then) neighbor.

It was a little unnerving to come home to a dozen black Suburban SUVs parked in front of my house.

What have you been up to that would lead to such an unnerving response? ;-)

That's not the unnerving part (answer would be "probably nothing"). The unnerving part is convincing the people in the black SUVs that you actually haven't been doing anything suspicious. While they tear your house apart. And take all of your stuff. And have you handcuffed on the floor.

Main article link made a lot more sense to me, having never heard of it (or ATHF) before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic

> put it on your own roof, that way nobody can remove it

I imagine you’d need a permission; just like you’d have to get one if you wanted to use a projector and project something onto parliament. (TINLA)

One of my friends used to live across the street from a federal courthouse. He tried projecting a movie from his window onto a blank wall of the courthouse. Half an hour later several LEOs were at his door asking him "politely but firmly" to turn off the projector and to never do it again.

Was it actually illegal or did they just bully him into doing what they wanted?

like the idea but how much sun does london really get?

Enough to allow a skyscraper to melt cars[0].

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-23930675

That's a bit of a special case though, at 50 suns or so it doesn't require much for that effect. Great demo for solar concentrators though!

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