Occupy "Bat Signal for the 99%" light projections: the "making of" video, shot by Mark Read and crew

Above: #Occupy Bat Signal for the 99%, a beautiful short film by Mark Read and friends, shot inside Denise Vega's home in the projects opposite the Verizon building at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Video from the #occupy bat signal crew. Inside look at this series of inspirational video projections on the side of the Verizon building on November 17th.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Heath Sledge

Beautiful. Thank you.
http://twitter.com/VanOutryve Karen Romeo

Thank you. This is beautiful–so hopeful. Mad me cry. Tears of gratitude.
http://twitter.com/dailyrev Brian Donohue

Years ago, I wrote in a blog post that art would lead the great renewal, what some call the revolution; for there is nothing the collective fears as much as Art (thus, it always tries to buy and own art, the better to define for us what it is and is not). And here it comes, Art unchained, unrestrained, liberated; sponsored not by BofA or Chase or Goldman, but by a working Mom in her apartment. The Awakening has arrived.
http://profiles.google.com/jveteran John Veteran

Of course I don’t take myself seriously here………but……IF and that is such a huge IF that it couldn’t possibly be true…IF there are a bunch of UFO’s buzzing about the planet right now then a possible perspective of looking down at a building with 99% on it would look a little bit like

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http://www.facebook.com/people/RearNaked-Smoke/100002758368746 RearNaked Smoke

This was EPIC!! I saw it on a live stream from a traffic copter, and almost fell out of my chair. Eternal respect to all involved in this. Well Done!
jimh

Got a little misty watching this. Thanks.
Guest

Okay, that just nailed me. Watching these people’s determination reclaim their world, seeing them believe they can make it right through sheer force of will — and seeing signs that it might just work — is inexpressibly moving.
pdffs

Amazing. Well done. That is all.
greebo

And the perfect soundtrack too! That’s East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, from F#A#. I love that track!
BambooJackson

Fucking fantastic, thank you
Suburbancowboy

The choice of music is odd, as it is also used in another video that went slightly viral a while back, the footage from the abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans. This song is a little too creepy for this video I think.

http://youtu.be/Bcja8UBtXdk

(Original BB post has a link that is no longer available…http://boingboing.net/2010/11/05/six-flags-new-orlean.html )
Cowicide

Beautiful.
Cowicide

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