Grafedia Elevates Graffiti To Art

joredbar writes "Wired.com has a story about a new phenomenon called Grafedia. This is something new that I never heard of before. Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. Grafedia can be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, on the street, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers 'click' on these Grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + "@grafedia.net" to get the content behind the link."

Comments

blah... short lasting fad that'll never catch on..

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out some stencil graffiti people are creating, Stencil Revolution. There's tutorials and galleries up there.. Sure, some of it's very amateurish but there's also very inspiring work...

Sample 1
Sample 2

r.a.s.1974.

Two things that come to mind...

[nunchux]

You want to see graffiti art, look at Basquiat, Haring or Fab Five Freddy. Even with the loosest parameters of what "art" is, this ain't it. This is the modern equivalent of a "for a good time, call xxx-xxxx" message scrawled on a bathroom wall.

View them in a browser

[nmb3000]

It seems you can see all/some/? images without sending email by going to:

http://www.grafedia.net/images/grafedias/[word]. jp g

For example, slashdot.

Tinyurl

[JaF893]

This is stupid - have people not heard of Tiny URL?

It even supports mailto: as well as standard http links. I think using tinyurl to directly link to your content is better than having to send an email to some crappy site and then get a link to the content.