Cheered me up
That's brilliant - now why can't they do something to make working on a Friday more fun!
Can’t be bothered taking the stairs or putting your rubbish in the bin? You might change your mind when you see how electronics have been used to create a set of musical stairs and a ‘bottomless’ bin. Can't see the video? Download Flash Player from Adobe.com Car firm Volkswagen recently teamed up with some designers to …
I suspect (maybe wrongly but...you know) that should someone do that here, there would be some public safety outcry deploring the riskiness of providing the general public with a keyboard on a staircase...you know, what with the risk of someone trying to play Bach and tripping, promptly falling and breaking several bones.
Or due to the twister-like poses someone would have to make with friends to play some jazz.
Or the anti-noise brigade claiming that the whole enterprise will cause damaged hearing and traumatise poor travellers forever putting them off the sound of a piano.
Or the "is it anti-slip" club. Which could be renamed the "why don't i just watch where i'm going" club.
Or, even more fringe, some smurfs who will no doubt claim that it affects our indigenous birdlife. Or dolphins.
Personally? Think its a fun idea and a good laugh. The people in the video seemed to enjoy it too.
Lets have a little more fun eh?
As far as I can make out from the Swedish text* it appears that making the bin fun to use resulted in the collection of 72kg of rubbish, which is apparently a good 41kg more than normal (I can't be asked to do the precise math, but that's more than double the normal "take").
If they could get that to work in London..
* No, I don't speak Swedish but one of the languages I speak is close enough to get the gist of it (I couldn't be asked to use translator either, it's Friday evening, so there).
Is there a version of the video where you can actually hear what the keyboard is playing, rather than overdubbed piano music?
I do find it somewhat bewildering that they'd create a public art installation whose primary purpose is to make sound, video it, and then edit away the sound.
It says they got more rubbish, and we saw one person picking something up off the floor.
Sounds good, if it makes people pick more litter up.
But more rubbish in this bin, probably means less in another bin... ie peoples rubbish in their pockets being fished out to go into this rather than at home/another bin.
Still, could be worked into a nice idea, recycling with incentives etc (like that tesco holiday couple...)
De Efteling(1) over here in NL has had talking(2) litter receptacles for decades and they work. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. More power to their elbow etc. etc. etc.
(1) Think Alton Towers . . . only better.
(2) They spout "Papier hier"(3)
(3) For the linguistically challenged it literally translates as "Paper here."
Not only is the idea cool, but I observe that people in the video had a marked tendency to use the stairs instead of the escalator - even the older ones.
So it encourages people to take the stairs, which is healthy exercise.
Now I wonder what kind of racket that thing made during rush hour . . .
Why do they have to be deaf to make use of sign language
One of them could be mute or even both of them.
Maybe one is foreign but they both know signing.
many reasons
but then again i did go HUH !? when i first saw it. But then again i thought about it before posting (something i dont normally do)