She looked like a statuette: blond pixie cut, floor-length gold sequinned gown, her small figure catching every blink of light in Roy Thomson Hall.
Now it is miles of cabling, the blinking of lights on servers, and a trader's bright-blue jacket hanging in a glass case in a data centre in Essex.
Today, activity is signalled by the silent blinking of light-emitting diodes.
His 1966 film "The Flicker" consisted only of rapidly, randomly blinking patterns of light.
They invoke the anxious thrills of an adolescent in a darkened room, illuminated with the blinking of multicolored lights, each machine the center of a group's attention, each group focusing on the fate of a gleaming ball going almost too fast to track, as it teases and taunts or promptly sweeps downward to its death, daring you to try again with another coin.
Do a web search and a million different computers look at a million parts of the web before the results are collated in the blink of an LED light.
Candy canes and a "Happy Holidays" banner of lights blinked in time to Frank Sinatra crooning "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and a nativity scene on the Cianflones' lawn glowed and then dimmed, alternating with spotlights on Santa's sleigh and a snowman at the DeLauros'.
Want to change the pattern of lights that blink when you lock/unlock the scooter with the fob?
The man double-parked his car, the blinking hazard lights of which gave clear evidence of the passing nature of his visit, and suggested to Stevick a long itinerary of random checks still ahead of him.
As spectators waited at Battery Park, police and Fire Department boats formed a cordon of blinking lights.
