LED Architecture

Light emitting diodes or LEDs are a growing fascination of mine. They were the centerpiece in my story

on the Graffiti Research Lab and today I have a photo blog up on Wired about how LEDs are changing the face of architecture.

The LED photo gallery took a long time to assemble. Mostly because I had to coordinate between several different sources to get high-res jpegs.

But I’m pretty happy with the final product. From the comments it looks like other people are enjoying it too, which makes me very happy.

I will address one topic that was raised on the comments in the Digg post and on the photo gallery itself. Various people complained that building X wasn’t on the building and ‘oh the travesty that there was a photo blog that left it out.’

I say ‘cry about it.’ I couldn’t get everything in so I had to make big-boy decisions that cut other buildings out. I made decisions based on the quality of pictures I was able to get and for the sake of variety. I didn’t want any casinos (which one comment suggested) because it seemed too cliche. We all know casinos have lights.

I was mostly working with different LED centered companies. The first was ColorKinetics and they were instrumental in getting this gallery started. My only regret is that the link to their site got lost somewhere in the shuffle.

To be honest, I want to revisit this topic but in a written piece. I don’t think it lends itself too well to a news site, but perhaps a magazine. I think there is something cool about environmentally friendly developments — like LEDs — that are also sheik.

As for now, back to the daily grind of work. I’m currently having trouble putting a cap on a Seed story. Anybody here know a lot about Nootropic drugs?