Welcome to Middlesbrough, where they have just installed this public artwork. No, it's an artwork.
It turns out the whole point of this art is that it changes color if you send it a text message from your wireless phone. The commands it will recognize are: blue; starvibe; xxx; pearl; boro and chromapop.
"boro", it turns out, changes the color to the local sports team's colors, red and white.
If the full story is to be believed, this is a new centerpiece to the entire town and is much more beautiful than these stupid pictures let on.
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