I've always wanted to write on glass. I wanted to do it when I saw people do it in the movies - in films set in the control room of naval control rooms, or miltary bases beneath mountains. I wanted to do it even more when they do it in CSI and programmes like that. It's how TV people can show you're thinking hard and still show your face. Well now Grant McCracken has found a way to do something about it. He's found these Bright Sticks which are apparently perfect for writing on windows.
Which I will be doing very soon.
Writing on glass is as pleasurable as writing on a banana - which should do once. I saw an interesting us of a frosted window as a whiteboard at one of my client's offices - it makes so much sense to backlight using daylight, unless you're a vampire of course: http://www.agitprop.co.uk/blog/?p=44
Posted by: Jim Holt | January 28, 2007 at 03:27 PM
I wish I could remember to copy check before hitting 'post' rather than afterwards
Posted by: Jim Holt | January 28, 2007 at 03:28 PM
I watched Mission Impossible 3 on DVD last night. The movie wasn't that great, but there is a very cool 'writing on window' scene where Tom Cruise calculates the velocity and angle required to jump from building A to building B by sketching their outline on the glass against the cityscape. He then does some complex calculations to confirm this (which is the least convincing part of the entire film), but there you have it, a classic 'writing on glass to look cool' scene.
Posted by: gemma | January 28, 2007 at 07:19 PM
If you really like this paint on glass thing, there's one film that's all about that without involving submarines, missiles or calculations, but only a bald guy and a brush : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049531/
Posted by: Christian | January 28, 2007 at 09:36 PM
I've been using windows as whiteboards for years. Dry-erase markers work just as well on glass as they do on whiteboards, with no need for a special trip to the office supply store.
Posted by: john trenouth | January 28, 2007 at 10:27 PM
I understand why you someone would write on glass at home or at the office - to save yourself from buying a whiteboard - but I never really got it why they do it on CSI. Does reading backwards give them new insights on the cases? Or is it just to show off the fancy studio-lighting?
Posted by: aliceinadland | January 29, 2007 at 01:17 PM
I suspect people write on glass in the movies etc because it means we spend less time looking at the back of their heads. Plus it looks cool.
Posted by: russell | January 29, 2007 at 02:24 PM
YOU
CAN
WRITE
ON
GLASS!
O yes getting some now. Thanks chief.
Posted by: Faris | January 31, 2007 at 12:57 PM