This is Not Graffiti Research Lab

The Graffiti Research Lab, or GRL, is a group "dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication." They'd like you to know that they were not part of the Great Lite Brite Incident of 2007 yesterday. The company Turner Broadcasting hired for their marketing initiative, Interference, Inc ripped off ideas that the street artists at GRL had posted and used it for commerce – pretty much opposite the goal of GRL. Interference, by the way, has posted an apology on their website after being down for most of the day yesterday

We at Interference, Inc. regret that our efforts on behalf of our client contributed to the disruption in Boston yesterday and certainly apologize to anyone who endured any hardship as a result. Nothing undertaken by our firm was in any way intended to cause anxiety, fear or discomfort to anyone. We are working with Turner Broadcasting and appropriate law enforcement and municipal authorities to provide information as requested and take other appropriate actions.

A video and instructions, dubbed "Night Writer" were posted on GRL last year on how to make tags lit with LEDs and the equipment to easily mount them. Night Writer explains the how to's and materials needed to create the LED signs, from mounting up the lights to mounting up the finished product, with the same poles used to mount the Aqua Teen signs. GRL is open source for the aid and benefit of not for profit artists. The Anti-Advertising Agency expresses their discontent that the GRL has been attributed in many of the stories about yesterday's bomb scare here in Boston – and the fact that the individuals (even if they were acting on behalf of a corporation) were the scapegoats. They're pretty blunt about their desire to see corporate executives to be held responsible for yesterday's episode.