Comments on: LED Throwies http://antonolsen.com/2006/04/23/led-throwies/ Making Mistakes as Fast as I Can. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:53:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anton http://antonolsen.com/2006/04/23/led-throwies/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Anton Tue, 02 May 2006 01:16:35 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/?p=130#comment-656 Will, The magnets are rather small and have at least one wrap of tape around them. They do not stick well at all and have to be gently tossed or they bounce off the metal. We didn't toss them 20 or 30 feet up, most of them were just 8-10 feet up. As David stated above, less than 24 hours later all of the throwies had been removed. We saw plenty of people take interest in them, take them down and toss them back up, I assume later people started taking them home. Assuming that throwies are illegal, it would be a littering violation, not vandalism. We did no damage at all to the surfaces we "colored" and planned to return to collect them all a few days later. Unfortunately some other people beat us to it. Next time we'll just stick to La Tuna and it's corrugated tin walls. The live music was great and all the locals were fascinated with the throwies. Will,

The magnets are rather small and have at least one wrap of tape around them. They do not stick well at all and have to be gently tossed or they bounce off the metal.

We didn’t toss them 20 or 30 feet up, most of them were just 8-10 feet up.

As David stated above, less than 24 hours later all of the throwies had been removed. We saw plenty of people take interest in them, take them down and toss them back up, I assume later people started taking them home.

Assuming that throwies are illegal, it would be a littering violation, not vandalism. We did no damage at all to the surfaces we “colored” and planned to return to collect them all a few days later. Unfortunately some other people beat us to it.

Next time we’ll just stick to La Tuna and it’s corrugated tin walls. The live music was great and all the locals were fascinated with the throwies.

]]> By: Will http://antonolsen.com/2006/04/23/led-throwies/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Will Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:41:19 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/?p=130#comment-655 You say that this is better than paint, but it isn't that much better. If you are using rare earth magnets, those are damn near impossible to seperate from a metal object, not to mention a bridge 20 or 30 feet of the ground... You can try to justify it as much as you want, but it is still graffiti. Graffiti is vandalism and is against the law. You should know that. You say that this is better than paint, but it isn’t that much better. If you are using rare earth magnets, those are damn near impossible to seperate from a metal object, not to mention a bridge 20 or 30 feet of the ground…

You can try to justify it as much as you want, but it is still graffiti. Graffiti is vandalism and is against the law. You should know that.

]]> By: edspace » Throwies! http://antonolsen.com/2006/04/23/led-throwies/comment-page-1/#comment-654 edspace » Throwies! Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:34:31 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/?p=130#comment-654 [...] Unfortunately, I don’t have any more pictures of our activities. But I’m sure other people do. [...] [...] Unfortunately, I don’t have any more pictures of our activities. But I’m sure other people do. [...]

]]> By: Sweater Project » Blog Archive » Concerning Throwies http://antonolsen.com/2006/04/23/led-throwies/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Sweater Project » Blog Archive » Concerning Throwies Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:55:18 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/?p=130#comment-653 [...] Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of what we did after the assembly part of the evening. But other people do . . . [...] [...] Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of what we did after the assembly part of the evening. But other people do . . . [...]

]]> By: David http://antonolsen.com/2006/04/23/led-throwies/comment-page-1/#comment-652 David Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:28:29 +0000 http://antonolsen.com/?p=130#comment-652 I went back to two of the crime scenese yesterda - La Tuna and the bridge. At the bridge, *all* the throwies were gone. There were one or two left up at La Tuna. Either they've gone on to new homes, or our fingerprints are being lifted as we speak . . . :-) I went back to two of the crime scenese yesterda – La Tuna and the bridge. At the bridge, *all* the throwies were gone. There were one or two left up at La Tuna.

Either they’ve gone on to new homes, or our fingerprints are being lifted as we speak . . . :-)

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