In the serendipitous way the world has been working of late (we've been talking Ultimate and Frisbee Discs over on The Web Town Observer), I get the following from Zippy's brother, Finch.
I was admiring and becoming mesmerized by the sheer uniqueness and visual energy – resulting from the outdoor disc installation.
A local architect, Murray Legge, happened upon a brand new frisbee (ie, “disc” ) design which he was buying for his 10 year old daughter. A small company, Flashflight, based out of Bolder, CO recently designed and launched a unique disc which is identical to the official Ultimate (the sport) disc both in design and weight…BUT has an added element – which is a tiny, colored, LED light, which is funneled to edges of disc via fiber optics – the result is the ability to play at night (it has replaceable batteries, on/off switch, and is waterproof)
Given his firm’s focus on outdoor, environmentally friendly design projects, he quickly realized he had to somehow utilize these discs, into some kind of outdoor installation. After contacting the inventor, proposing and receiving funding, he created this amazing installation which was on display only for 6 hours, on New Years’ Eve, on the banks of Town Lake, in Austin TX.
I not only got to see this piece, but met both the creator, Murray, as well as the inventor of the discs, Jeff. I have been using these discs at night, since they appeared in stores; about 9 months ago.
Enjoy the imagery – absolutely amazing—1000 glowing, pulsating, discs – 500 in a perfect circle on the ground, and another 500 suspended with plastic webbing, about 10 feet off the ground. -afp
More info at Austin360, here
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