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Walking down Bloor on Saturday night after seeing A Prairie Home Companion at the Cumberland (go see this wonderful movie, Meryl Streep can totally sing), we saw LED people walking in front of the Rogers building. At night it was striking. Cars were slowing down to see it. From a Canwest article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An unusual video screen has sprung up in front of the Rogers Communications headquarters on Toronto’s Bloor Street East featuring images of pedestrians.<\/p>\n

It was created by world-famous contemporary British artist Julian Opie, whose work can be seen in London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin and Korea.<\/p>\n

Entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People Walking 2006,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the LED installation was commissioned by Rogers and is the first of its kind in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The flat screen measures 10 feet by 6 feet and features life-sized electronic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stick figures\u00e2\u20ac\u009d walking randomly in both directions. Delineated by tens of thousands of tiny LED lights, the screen runs — or walks — around the clock.<\/p>\n

Opie used his own line drawings of nine real people to create the images.<\/p>\n

According to a release from Rogers, the artist hopes the public art reflect \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the everyday, living dynamics of the people\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the busy street corner.<\/p>\n

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