Sunday, 24 February 2002

Blinkenlights

Michi and me couldn’t stand just sitting here all evening knowing this would be the last night of Blinkenlights’ existence. So we snatched my camera and tripod and went off to have another look at it and take some pictures. I also wanted to play pong (via cell phone. You call a number, thereby donating your connection fee to Chaos Computer Club, and then play pong against the computer or another caller). But it didn’t work. Maybe they have already turned off the pong feature. First we went to the nearby Burger King to have dinner. I took some pics (this and that) of my reflection in distortion mirrors.

Then we picked a good spot to take pictures of Blinkenlights from and stood there in the cold freezing our fingers off (can you believe that we actually had 16.5°C at the beginning of February?) for quite some time experimenting with the right exposure time and waiting for cool animations. I think I got a few good ones. The bye bye blinkenlights party was right next to blinkenlights building and there were tons of people waiting outside to get in. I wouldn’t have thought that a hacker party would attract that many people. Two guys asked us where the party was at the exact same moment Blinkenlights displayed a message about the party and a huge arrow pointing right to it. I think they must’ve felt pretty dumb ;)

I’m really glad we went to look at it again. I’ll miss it. It always made my day a little brighter when I saw it. Well at least I have my own little Blinkenlights shrine to remember it :)

  Posted by Edda at 04:13 CET