QOTD

“Like all tell-tale signs of brooding weather, the Cloud is a display system. It is both screen and barometer, archive and sensor, past and future. The patterns of its animated skins offer a civic-scale smart-meter for London as a whole, sign-posting particular events, transport patterns, weather forecasts, timetables, and footage either real-time or decades old. Its movements can reveal the movement of both the crowds below and those within its structure–a space alive to the touch, an aerial ecology.”

— MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory describes “the Cloud,” an art installation it hopes to build for the 2012 London Olympics.