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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by JoshTko »

samspenc wrote: post #6

I wonder how much they charged and made in ticket revenue. They couldn't even hire stage and lighting professionals to determine the right amount of UV and lighting at a conference hosting hundreds or thousands of folks?!?! > On social media, some suspect photokeratitis — damage to the eye caused by UV exposure. If that’s what caused the Apes’ agony, they likely won’t be blind forever: it’s a temporary condition. Peo…

In bright snow your pupils are super small as the brightness is constant. At a night show your pupils are dilated in let in maximum light intermittent if exposure in these circumstances could be quite different in terms of short/long term damage

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ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

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Post by pryce »

dragontamer wrote: post #194
ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

Its called SEO. If you know something bad has happened, you want to word your public statements in such a way that you beat out the bad news to the top search of Google at least, to minimize the attention given to that issue. Ex: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1465838829370228737 This Elon Musk tweet coincided to help SEO-fight against a Whistleblower claim. Ex2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122806 Bor…

Remember when Musk called some guy in Thailand a 'pedophile' for no reason at all, and it immediately became international news with those keywords. That was so quirky!!

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Post by autokad »

GuB-42 wrote: post #103

There have been stories of venues using UVC (germicidal) lamps because they looked pretty and fit standard fixtures. It resulted in sunburns and lots or eye pain. I don't know if that's what happened there, but I think that using the same fixtures for dangerous yet pretty looking germicidal lamps and regular lighting is not the smartest idea.

the article I read on google news said they believed lights used for cleaning may have been used, so yeah

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Post by yieldcrv »

LelouBil wrote: post #209
yieldcrv wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

essentially. a whole industry cropped up around hosting them, which mostly defeats the point there are a lot of NFTs that are better implementations, the primary improvement being that there is no external hosting and they build the visual data into the smart contract function for a renderer to interpret Ive done a lot with SVGs that way. others upload dependendies like three.js on the blockchain in other smart contr…

This whole smart contract stuff looks very interesting. Do you have resources for someone that only know the basics of cryptocurrencies and blockchains ?

build some EVM (ethereum virtual machine) scaffolding in a local environment at

https://scaffoldeth.io/

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Post by silisili »

Animats wrote: post #203

This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…

> two guys from Florida

And that's all I need to know. I avoid buying from, selling to, or doing business with anyone from FL if I can, I've been burnt too many times. I'm not sure if the state attracts shady characters, or produces them, or both.

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

daniel_reetz wrote: post #179
CodeWriter23 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would not rely on a stain test designed to be used in close proximity to a light source being sensitive enough to detect eye-damaging UV at a distance. It might react only slightly, and the stain may not be discernible from the control in such circumstances.

Even clear "sunglasses" made of polycarbonate can provide excellent UV protection, but no telling if it's enough to protect against a blacklit room or stage laser that's been set up by incompetents.

I believe even regular contacts provide some amount of UV protection.

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Post by seanp2k2 »

phkahler wrote: post #128
krsdcbl wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brilliant and truly innovative stage design, mounting the "do not ever look into those" scan lasers vertically, at head height ... ...

There are regulations on that stuff in some countries. A friend of mine is in lighting and says their company generally avoids lasers due to the hassle of compliance.

In the USA, you need an FDA variance to operate one at events. https://www.proxdirect.com/support/variance has some info but the most important parts are:

    - Laser projector must be mounted and have the lowest point on the beam at least 10 fee above the floor and 10 feet horizontally from anywhere a person could go -- this is why many laser shows just do "laser sky" effects that are just projecting wide horizontal lines even though they can do up/down effects as well
    - beam must be terminated into something non-reflective -- can't shoot it off into the sky
    - absolutely no scanning the audience -- again, the lowest point of the beam has to be at least 10ft above the floor
Related standards:

    - ANSI Z136.1* ‘Safe Use of Lasers’ (currently available, but general for all laser use)
    - ANSI Z136.10* (to be published shortly, but specifically covers laser light show safety)
https://www.lasershowsafety.info/us-laws.html has more info including some about how to possibly do audience scanning with special equipment, but you can see from all of these rules why it's a lot easier to just avoid lasers for events and clubs. Pyrotechnics are a lot of red tape too.

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Post by endgame »

There's no reason the party with unsafe UV lights had to be a crypto-party. While I'm no NFT bagholder, it bothers me that the article is mostly about dunking on cryptobros than talking about the dangers of hazardous lighting rigs at a show. At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR.
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