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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."
Sounds like Garffiti for Metro lamers.
Hmmm, now what would you do with a database of SMS-enabled cell phone numbers? Is it illegal to SMS ads to cell phones? What about if they SMS you first?
Seems like an interesting idea, but imagine 40 years from now having to explain the grafedia link tatoo. That doesn't sound to brilliant.
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Will I be able to use this to get pr0n though?
Way too much potential for tubgirl/goatse abuse here. I can imagine the horrors as the morning commuters follow a "hyperlink" to a giant, stretched rectum to start their week.
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.
In the name of all that's holy... what mad science is THIS?!
He's actually HAND WRITING urls onto (sit down) PHYSICAL
URLS...
PHYSICAL SURFACES...
Its MAD! No... its more than mad.
ITS I N S A N E !!!!
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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?
"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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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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