**UPDATE**  Check out the OFFICIAL GHOST TRAIN SITE @ ghostTrain.info

Yup…it’s official! Mark Bruels, Erik Burke, and I have been invited to bring our digital graffiti project, GHOST TRAIN to Burning Man this year!

We are so pumped to bring this project to the more that 48,000 community members of Black Rock City in 2010. GHOST TRAIN is an interactive subway projection where participants use hacked spray paint cans to create art on the passing trains with light instead of paint. What better project for this years’ Burning Man theme of Metropolis? We made the prototype with Processing and now have to bring in the big dogs (AS3 / C++) for the heavy lifting. I can hardly wait to get crackin!

Keep an eye out for more information about the project!  We’ll post pictures during our development process.

collaboration with Erik Burke…..he’s a funny guy.

(screen print: Lynn, sketches: Erik)

The Mission:
Discover the missing letters to solve the Ransom note and find the Hostage.  They’re counting on you!

The Game:
1. Pick up “The File” with special transparencies @ The Tank (354 W. 45th St)
2. Align the images with the buildings & signs in Times Square.  Find the missing letters in the circles
3. Use the Decoder to unscramble the clues to find the hostage
4. The clock is ticking!  Release the hostage in the fastest time to win!

More about the game here:
www.RanSomeRansom.blogspot.com
www.ComeOutAndPlay.org

Pictures of Tread Erosion installed in the MFA exhibition (http://cdt.parsons.edu/show2009/)

image by Doris Yee

image by Claudio Midolo
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Here’s a map of the space from the data gathered.
On the left is a map of numbers.  Each number relates to a pixel in the sculpture and correlates to the number of times that area was walked through.
On the right is a choropleth map showing levels of erosion in shades of grey (white = no erosion / black = highest erosion)