Dec 7 2007Huge Tetris Game Played On Dorm Building
Large tetris games have been seen here before, but this one is actually real. The old one was a bunch of Russian students (probably drunk on potato vodka) running around their dorm flipping lights on and off. This one was actually programmed professionally and is being played by a person on a cell phone. It's called the Mikontalo Lights Project and was "created by the students of Tampere University of Technology in Finland to gain global visibility for the university and highlight its rich student culture." Now I'm not totally sure how this is displaying a "rich student culture". I could think of better ways of displaying a rich student culture. Like, oh, I don't know, a chili eating contest.
UPDATE: It turns out the video is so damn shaky because the crazy bastard filming has it attached to his head. There's another video of Space Invaders being played after the jump.
Mikontalo Lights @ Tampere University of Technology [core77]
Reader Comments
1. FrixFrixFrix - December 7, 2007 1:08 PM
too bad the cameraman's having an epileptic seizure
2. whistle - December 7, 2007 2:46 PM
I did one of these a while back, but I just took photos of a building with some lights on and then at other times with different lights on, then I superimposed the windows on the main building image when and where I needed to to create the illusion (I even tinted them for the proper coloring). It was simply an editing trick. It didn't occur in real life, but it had the same end result. It got me an A in class.
3. guate6 - December 7, 2007 3:42 PM
Now that's awesome. The colors, the speed, and all controlled by a mobile phone...My hat is off to the creators of this.
4. CLICK HERE - December 7, 2007 5:50 PM
I like that
5. bonzo420 - December 7, 2007 6:27 PM
old...lame!
~420~
6. boom - December 16, 2007 7:47 AM
they were actually finnish not russian!!!