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A candy for a death

A candy for a death

(and now back to our regular reporting on art, design, and clever stuff)

Monument (If it Bleeds, it Leads) is an installation representing deaths reported in the news media as an ever increasing pile of bright yellow candy dropping onto the floor. The computer scans 4,500 English-language news sources around the world, looking for people who have been reported killed. Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number of deaths, and instructs a ceiling-mounted mechanism built from Legos to drop one yellow BB per person.

Project by Caleb Larson. Check out the video and more pictures at the project's site. I would love to see this in person.

via Infosthetics and WMMNA

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ReBlogged by ann p on Aug 29, 2006 at 01:06 PM Posted by ann p on Aug 29, 2006 at 01:06 PM

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