USB 'Dead Drops'

Okian Warrior writes "Aram Bartholl is building a series of USB dead drops in New York City. Billed as 'an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space,' he has embedded USB sticks as file cache devices throughout the city. Bartholl says, 'I am "injecting" USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and data.' Current locations (more to come) include: 87 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Makerbot), Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo), 235 Bowery, NY (New Museum), Union Square, NY (Subway Station 14th St), and West 21st Street, NY (Eyebeam)"

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Re:So this is what passes for clever these days

[cbraescu1]

You're so full of pretentious shit...

"The concept"? There is no concept, sweetheart. Time to stop pretending, okay?

"urban environment"? the fact that you can't spell "city" only increases my belief that you're a pretentious moron, one of which his / her own family feels embarrassed.

"to see what happens" is that artsy for you? How about we spit on some wall "to see what happens"? Or we place a banana peel on the sidewalk "to see what happens"? Got my point? Ouh, almost forgot how stupid you are: "to see what happens" has zero conenction with art or in general with meaning.

"creating a parallel (and sllightly subversive) infrastructure"? Honey, you can't create anything at all, stop dreaming. Pretentious idiots can't even understand what "subversive" means, too.

"in new and original ways"? LOL

"as we say in Art"? Frankly most of the times I think people like you are just caricatures, made-up ideas with no real counterpart in real life. Wow!