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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."
How is this any different from scrawling an URL? This is going to be used by a few lame advertising campaigns, where every graphedia will have to be acompanied by instructions 'put this word in front of @graphedia.net'.
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Sounds like an effort to create a new "hip" advertising trend.
No thanks.
This idea has been around for ages. They're called URLs. I can spray paint "slashdot.org" on a wall and you can "link" to that by typing in that address on your cell phone. Doesn't make it a hyperlink. If I gave someone my business card with an email address on it and said "look, my business card has hyperlinks!" they'd think I'm nuts. Much like I think the perpetrator of this ridiculous idea is.
Gotta agree; pointless... At least with old fashioned graffiti there was a slim chance that you could view something that was visually pleasing while you contemplated the fact that what you are looking at is basically an act of vandalism.
Now all you get is a word, or a link, that is still an act of valdalism. But there's really nothing to look at. You've got to go look up the actual content using your cell phone, and then it might be something really lame - or worse, a goatse link.
What's the point? How many people are going to take the creator's word that the relevent link will be pleasing/funny/informative/(insert adjective here)? Especially after the first penis-enlargement Grafedia works start showing up. (Hey spammers! Here's a new delivery method for you! Get your victims, er - customers, to actually come to you for a change!)
You know that graffiti has been art for a long time right?
how does this crappy idea 'elevate' the art?
As an occasional writer(graffiti artist), I take offence to that.
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But this is stupid and definitely non-news.
Sounds like someone is using Slashdot to get some free press.
"Elevates grafitti to art" ???
The implication is the "art" is somehow "higher" than anything else is silly.
Anyone who has studied art philosophy (I majored) can tell you that art has no standards or prerequisites. Anyone can declare anything to be art. (Duchamp anyone?)
You can literally shit on a canvas and call it art. In fact you don't even need the canvas.
Grafitti *is* art.
And for that matter so is Slashdot.
If anything, art is "low" -- most other things have defining parameters.
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Sounds like a bunch of pricks trying to pretend they are intelligent...
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i thought the opposite, it reminded me of the kind of things some of my stoner friends would think up... "what if you could click on links i real life.... like on a web page.... but in real life......yea man you could click on it with your phone or something...." but the next day rather than realizing it was dumb they decided to actually do it.
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This could be very intriguing if used properly.
.net/.com/.uk/etc?
More importantly, it raises the question (to me): Why do we have extensions/suffixes on domain names?
The reason I ask is because an apparently new medium of creativity has surfaced. When I read this article, I felt it was blemished by the ".net" that's intrinsically (and permanently) associated with it. In a world where we can put men on the moon, machines on Mars, and use international language/symbols on the internet; why do we still have to have 90's style suffixes appended to internet names?
Do we gain any significant taxonomy by having
In the new global economy/world, I can't help but think that a better method of taxonomy should be created; and if it isn't, at least the existing obsolete method should be eradicated.
That said, I think graffedia is (or will become) a much more significant historical milestone than many people realize.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Where have you been the past couple of centuries?
GRAFFITI IS ART!!!
Also called Writing, Street Art, just to name a few terms, so that idiots like you, stop degrading us artists!!!
They replace a picture with a hyperlink to the picture and this elevates it to art?
A big spraypainted mural on the side of a run down building is graffiti elevated to art. This is more like sinking to the level of a phone number in a bathroom stall.
I feel stupider for having been exposed to this idiocy.
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Graffiti is art - Tagging is vandalism.
They even want my money for this shit? One can only hope making a buck from it makes it a serious offence. See you behind bars, talentless fuckheads!
Shit does live forever after all.. .
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So let me get this straight -- you send a text message to an e-mail address from your phone and a server somewhere sends you some crap, and also...
Sorry, but no thanks.
I'm not at all opposed to self-expression, and shame has nothing to do with it. What I'm opposed to is the $4000 - $5000 that we have to spend to keep our building clean. Just for the record, I do not want to live inside somebody else's self-expression. I believe I should have that freedom, as a part-owner of the building.
Would you agree to let me come to your house and spray paint in any location I choose (be it on your car, your windows, your dog, your music collection, or whatever)? Because I dearly want to express myself in such manner. I promise I won't write anything nasty about you.
On a similar note: if I ever catch someone vandalizing my house I'll happily spray all the paint he carries over his clothes, his body and his vehicle, as an act of self-expression on my part.
Yeah, no kidding... just like that stupid internet. I really liked it until I saw Tubgirl on it. ;P
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