Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User

babokd wrote with a follow up to a piece we ran about the phenomenon of Grafedia, graffiti with links to the internet. The idea has caught on, and 'a communion of the real world with the Internet' may become more and more common. From the article: "It's all around you -- and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams....If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return. An adhesive arrow on a telephone pole could hold the key to the history of a nearby building."

Comments

Bathroom walls.....

[AtariAmarok]

"For a Good Time, text 443544"

Re:Bathroom walls.....

[spellraiser]

Bah, 867-5309 has much better times. Just remember - The password is 'Ken sent me'.

Cool

[lawpoop]

You are on a busy street corner. You are next to a building. Before you towers a light pole.

$> look building

You see an email address scrawled on the bricks.

$>grafitti email address

You get some nice pop art in return.

$>look light pole

You see an adhesive arrow.

$>look adhesive arrow.

You find the key to neaby building!

$>use key on door

You unlock the door.

And then...

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, Microsoft applies for a patent on graffiti.

Anti-Grafedia ...

[Infernal Device]

The campaign to counter all those idiot vandal grafitti advertisers should be titled:

"Say it. Don't spray it."

I don't know about you...

[Cyclotron_Boy]

but I don't want to text "goatse" and get any "pop art" while walking around downtown.

Editors, are they buying you hookers?

[spun]

Pay for a crappy service that invites people to vandalism and will probably only be used by corporate 'underground' marketing? No thanks.

Makes me wonder how some things get accepted to slashdot. Then I thought about it and it became crystal clear. If you want a story accepted onto slashdot, you have to buy hookers for the editors.

This isn't innovative...

[null etc.]

If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return.

C'mon, this is soooo last generation. I propose some new forms of "interactive art":

• Murderesqueism
• - murder victims left in public places with hyperlinks or other obscure clues left on the body.
• Popup Exhibitionism
• - beautiful women with URLS and other monikers tatooed over their abdomen, chest, and derriere, exposed at random times, with no provocation, to strangers.
• Licensism
• - the replacement of random car license plates with cleverly crafted URLS or AOL screen names.

Or, instead of trying to legitimatize vandalism, we can simply use RFID sticks for everything. IMHO, that would be cooler, because you'd have no idea of a sticker contained embedded data until you tried to scan it.

It is dark inside

[Quiet_Desperation]

You have been eaten by a grue.

Marketing Speak

[g1zmo]

...for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return.

We used to call it viruses, spam, spyware, and adware. Digital Pop Art sounds much friendlier.

Re:Seen it before

[generic-man]

I am pleased to announce a new phenomenon in which users of recent-model camera phones can use publicly-visible markings to initiate a chat with each other about music. It is called Bluemochalkblogcasting.

Coming soon: The very first Bluemochalkblogcasting manifesto. Say goodbye to traditional media and bow down to Bluemochalkblogcasting!