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LED Throwies are cheap and easy to make. Simply attach each end of an LED’s wires to a battery, then wrap the glowing light with tape, making sure to include a magnet.
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A group of graffiti artists consisting of Eyebeam members, design students and members of the group Visual Resistance gets ready for the night by making 600 LED Throwies. It takes roughly 15 seconds and 75 cents to make a Throwie. In the background, people take time to relax by playing Marc Ecko’s new graffiti game, Getting Up.
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A man climbs up the 15-foot sculpture to grab LED Throwies, which he will toss back on The Cube in his own arrangement or use to decorate other nearby magnetic objects.
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A girl winds up to toss an LED Throwie at her target, The Cube at Astor place. An LED photographed midair as it flies toward its destination causes the stream of light visible at right.
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Astor Place’s The Cube is no longer safe from graffiti. Once at the scene of the crime, people begin tossing the magnetic lights toward the sculpture to create graffiti.
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