Projecting on the Washington Monument
A message to the President in advance of his "peace" summit in Saudi Arabia
Good Evening:
The message is simple. And it speaks for itself. The audience was the President of the United States, who has a view of this face of the monument from his back porch. I hope he saw it.
It was not my best projection, to be honest, and I suspect it wouldn’t have been visible had he been watching. But all new targets are experiments, and I have never done a vertical projection before, and never projected on the Washington Monument before. And while it was underwhelming in person, the videos came out quite strikingly.
A few lessons:
You need two lasers for a target this large and shaped this unusually. The slogan shouldn’t scroll. It should be a static image. When I do this again, #Lord Laser will handle the bottom half (which is closer to the projection site and thus doesn’t need as much power) and #LadyLaser will project above.
I had no problems with law enforcement. Apparently the National Park Service Police are consistent. They don’t mind when I project on Smithsonian Museums, and they don’t mind when I project on monuments. So far, when I have projected within their jurisdiction, they have never even shown up.
I don’t have good static images of this project for the obvious reason that it scrolls and the full message is never visible at the same time. That said, I have made this video available on both Bluesky and Instagram:
Please share them on whatever platforms you use.
Speaking of Ukraine and Instagram, I started a new social media series today. Again, it speaks for itself and requires no comment from me:
I will share as many of these as people send me.
Today on #DogShirtTV, the estimable Minna Ålander and I welcomed the estimable Fabian Hoffmann, a German expert on nuclear policy based in Norway, to discuss European reactions to Trump’s foreign policy strategy—if we can even call it a strategy. We talked Ukraine, European readiness, tariffs, attrition, and even bathroom tiles.
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is this whale, which ate a kayaker and promptly spat him out again:
So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road;’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ the Mariner walked out of his mouth.
In honor of today’s Beast, remember that “I was curious” is a good excuse for a lot of otherwise unacceptable behavior. Not sure what something is? Go ahead. Put that thing in your mouth. How else will you learn?
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is not this creature, which, though undeniably a Beast, is not a member of Kingdom Animalia, and thus does not qualify to be today’s Beast:
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