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For anyone whose first adventure in artistic expression was plugging tiny coloured bulbs into a Lite Brite board, this amazing video will make the kid in you squeal just a little. More »
Shoe-maker ASICS commissioned a gigantic Lite Brite in NYC in celebration of something or other (probably a shoe launch) this month that takes the Guinness World Record for largest Lite Brite painting. You know, those things you played with when you were six? At 300,000+ pieces and 3.4 x 4.6 feet, it demolishes the previous record of 125,000+ pieces by PA artist Mark Beekman that took him over 15 months to complete. Mark’s was a recreation of The Last Supper, which while classy, just doesn’t quite have the same je ne sais quoi as a ginormous shoe advertisement. Sorry about that year and a half of your life, Mark. [Freshness Mag]
For those of us who grew up sticking coloured plastic pegs into a black board, Bandai Japan has gone all the way and brought our favourite toy up to its full potential–this is the Lite-Brite we always knew we wanted. The Luminodot packs a super-dense 70×50 grid, which accommodates 3,500 light pegs on a slick HDTV-looking frame. And as shown by the appropriately hallucinogenic demo video (skeletons riding donkeys, etc), its programmable backlight animation function makes the perfect pixel-art canvas.
