bustops

Bus.tops – a city wide can­vas for shar­ing the art of our streets, our com­mu­ni­ties, our Lon­don, our experience.

Bus.tops – if you can’t tell from the slide above that I’m sure made much more sense with peo­ple talk­ing over it – is a series of LED pan­els that are going to be attached to the top of bus stops around Lon­don for peo­ple to view from the sec­ond floor of the famous double-decker buses.  The con­tent will come from a num­ber of artists and pro­gram­mers, and will pre­sum­ably be made inter­ac­tive using the inter­faces shown in the slide.  It seems like an inter­est­ing way to make a piece that is unique to Lon­don by uti­liz­ing a resource that wouldn’t be avail­able any­where else in the world (or at least, not as famously avail­able.)  I might ques­tion how much inter­ac­tion would be pos­si­ble dur­ing a quick stop of the bus, but that’s a chal­lenge for the artists to work out, not me.  I’m just glad it wasn’t turned into ad space.

via a project to trans­form London’s Bus jour­neys | Bus-Tops.