Monday, March 15, 2010

At the 2012 London Olympic Games a cloud of bubbles will erupt with "gusts of digital data!"





A cloud of bubbles reflecting moments of the Olympics acting as the ultimate observation deck.

From Raise The Cloud:

The CLOUD proposes an entirely new form of observation deck, connecting visitors to both the whole of London and the whole of the world, immersing them in euphoric gusts of weather and digital data. Each individual footstep on the ascent to the CLOUD participates in a vast collective energy-harvesting effort. Everyone around the world can contribute to the Cloud - whether by visiting or by sponsoring an LED, helping to keep the London lamp aflame.

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From the YouTube Description:

Olympic & Expo structures with their mute mass, their ponderous monumentality, [Lovin' that word -Tony] and their conspicuous expenditure on immovable objects are outmoded. Our proposal is as light as air itself a tribute to a digital age of bits and atoms beyond the antiquity of steel and glass a structure which reveals the connected networks of a common humanity fueling the Olympics, their 2012 host city, and the world itself.

The Cloud proposes a new form of monument a new form of collective expression and experience, and an updated symbol of our dawning age.

It proposes an entirely new form of observation deck, high above the Olympics one from which one can not only see the whole of London, but the whole of the world, immersed in the euphoric gusts of weather and world data. It offers Londons highest park and an immersion within both our great clouded skies and the cosmos of our dataworlds as well as a live information system transmitting data and imagery from around the city and the world. It presents the perfect Olympic symbol a million unbounded particles contributing briefly towards a vast, beautiful, constantly-fluctuating whole. London, with its diversity, internationalism and tolerance, unites countries; the Cloud unites all people.

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5 comments:

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EricT said...

It's all very ethereal and abstract, but I don't really get it. A giant bubble observation deck / fuzzy big screen TV in the sky? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Trevor said...

Unbelievable.

Scott said...

I'm with you Eric. Color me stupid but I'm having trouble grasping what they mean by "an entirely new form of observation deck, high above the Olympics one from which one can not only see the whole of London, but the whole of the world, immersed in the euphoric gusts of weather and world data". And what do they mean when they say visiting or sponsoring an LED (light emitting diode?) will help keep the London Olympic torch (lamp?) alight? Are they saying there is a way to extinguish the flame remotely during the Games? That would be interesting!

Tony Austin said...

Events, news, multimedia will be projected on the bubbles