Another trip to the Wharf after work for another night time shot, where I came across a new piece of art - there's always something new on display dotted around the complex if you look close enough.
It's called Bit-Fall by German artist, Julius Popp, and consists of falling words made of water that are selected from the most popular words searched online.
Based on what I've found on the web, words are picked up from live web news feeds and fed into a machine where pumps and valves work together to process the text and drop water down spelling out each word.
As the words descend they begin to disintergrate. The piece is intended to represent the flow of media information and the continually changing nature of what is important to society.
Took a few shots, and noticed Obama, Vote, Election cropped up fairly often... Hmmm.. Must be something happening over the pond :-)
Your photos are fantastic. Great piece of art. Election today in the states, big race for retaining Democratic seats in the Senate and House, the why for Obama and Vote!! Great shots...not a good sign when you find the two words to be Nuclear and Bomb!?
This is clever stuff! Nice find Andy, bet you're chuffed with night and coming across this. I just found a video online about how it works, a valid comment I noticed that someone suggested it was fake from the internet feed as all what crop up would be XXX, p*rn, b00bs, (etc etc) thus showing on the display. haha you get the idea, but valid comment.
@andycoleborn haha! nice reply. but I can see their point as much as he joked about his comment too, these sort of words must be searched a lot or models etc
That is incredible... to think of all the programming and physics and thinking that would have gone into constructing and executing it... mind-boggling. :D It's so cool, and you captured it awesomely.
Nice find.