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Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User

Posted by Zonk on from the live-in-your-world-etc-etc dept.

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."

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  1. Seen it before by CaseyB · · Score: 3, Insightful
    This sounds much like the whole "warchalking" phenomenon that was picked up by the media when it became SO popular a couple years ago.

    Not that anyone ever saw real examples of it.

  2. am I the only one who believes that... by xutopia · · Score: 4, Insightful
    there are 4 types of graffiti?
    1. beautiful art
    2. tags - the equivalent of a dog pissing to mark his territory.
    3. ugly scribblings just for the sheer pleasure of vandalising
    4. text to express a view point or provoque

    Am I the only one feeling that only a minute amount of graffiti fits into the first category?

  3. graffiti is not art by eclectro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Graffiti is not art, it is vandalism. Anything that encourages it should be outlawed.

    I know that their are possible legitimate uses, but vandalism centric services really should not exist.

    Eye-spam is just as bad as other spam.

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