Monthly Archives: July 2011

Take a swarm of Roombas (robot vacuum cleaners), attach different coloured LEDs, set them off on pre-programmed cleaning missions in a room, photograph the whole thing using long exposure.

Presto! Roomba light art.

There’s an entire Flickr photo group dedicated to this kind of thing.

Light artists (from top): Steve DollChris BartleMike Bala and IBRoomba.
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These vintage devices are sometimes confused with early spy gadgetry but the truth is much stranger. Sez David Galbraith of Oobject:

Jailers’ keys were apparently filled with gun powder to create a primitive gun that could be detonated if there was any trouble when opening a cell door. We found several original versions that back up this claim, dating from the 17th century and of various complexity.

Jailers’ Key Guns (Oobject)

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Anti-Choice: Sister Mary
Pro-Choice: Jeni Gaynor
Anti-Choice: Part of the “All Ireland Rally For Choice”
Pro-Choice: Denise Ryan
Anti-Choice David Tutty and his daughter Selina
Pro-choice supporters Suzanne Lee and Leness Falls. on O’Connell Street
Anti Choice: Anthony Buckley

The “All Ireland Rally for Life” in Dublin yesterday encountered the “All Ireland Rally For Choice” at the GPO bringing back fond memories of the feeble-minded sloganeering of the SPUC wars of the 1980s.

Guess which group had the better after-party?

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)