Here’s a brilliant concept that puts a light-emitting computer-controlled projector to display images on the dark tunnel walls of a subway. Instead of staring at the empty space, passengers can watch movies of fish swimming, sharks, and other nature scenes. I’m sure someone will want to use this concept to monetize the space but in the meantime it raises all sorts of interesting security and illustrative/aesthetic questions.

Moving Canvas, Project Parasite (35MB mov)

Just in case (pun intended) you don’t want to watch the movie, here’s a brief (pun intended, again!) overview of the project.

1) the artist(s) assemble a simple mobile projector:

2) they mount it conspicuously to a subway car:

3) the box displays cool images into the dark:

4) the box is removed:

They did do some basic phrases, but it’s hard to tell if there was any poetry…

Perhaps for a strictly practical application they could project a city map with the subway’s current progress, or at least the upcoming station name.

Someone also just pointed out to me that this is similar to work done in the US by Improv Everywhere.