Now the sunrise and sunset can be encountered on the Internet

In our time, eternally sleepless cities, around the clock television and universal addiction to RSS-channels is difficult to regulate their biological rhythms … and for those of us who are practically fused together with a computer and carries with it all, bond and free time, watch the sunrise or sunset (somewhere else besides Youtube) – unaffordable luxury.

Fortunately, the Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney Museum of American Art) in New York invented a way to give us sunsets – on its Web site. Exactly – Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir of EcoArtTech programmed site WMA to darkening and lightening, in accordance with the actual daily cycle in New York.

Every day at the same time as the actual sunrise and sunset in New York, the Whitney’s Web site will go from a dark background to light and vice versa. These changes are accompanied by a light shining pulses of light balls, the size and speed will be determined by the number of visitors to the website.

On the one hand, users are so absorbed by the Internet, that can not distinguish between night and day, can simply check the color map of Whitney. On the other hand, pixel light is not so much pluses, as the present. And, perhaps, is not very useful (both physically and mentally) will never see the real sun …

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