tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389181255786430083.post6096556992515612732..comments2023-10-11T05:46:26.432-05:00Comments on Where: The Next Street ArtBrendan Crainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00528698033763911972noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389181255786430083.post-39020686297710748532008-05-12T15:22:00.000-05:002008-05-12T15:22:00.000-05:00RFIDs are especially exciting, I think, because so...RFIDs are especially exciting, I think, because sound could be used to tag a place in a way that still connects you to that place in the present and become an identifier of the place, as bp described, but in an entirely new medium...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the links, guys. These are all great.Brendan Crainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00528698033763911972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389181255786430083.post-44454789943203160442008-05-12T09:49:00.000-05:002008-05-12T09:49:00.000-05:00@anonymous, above....I read an article in the guar...@anonymous, above....I read an article in the guardian the other day about a similar scheme in the UK here<BR/><BR/>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/03/transport<BR/><BR/>(a little different as this one used comdey sketches and seemed quite lame, but I get the promise that this stuff may hold).<BR/><BR/>Also, barcode sticker/tagging is kinda common here in Tokyo...e.g. this one<BR/><BR/>http://kokubo.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/barcode1/<BR/><BR/>I appreciate the potential they have, but they suck as any type of aesthetic statement (obviously). <BR/>RIFDs I can appreciate (once all mobile phones/media players read them...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389181255786430083.post-84359930277446231712008-05-01T13:13:00.000-05:002008-05-01T13:13:00.000-05:00Three things: One, here is a similar idea of embed...Three things: <BR/>One, here is a similar idea of embedded meaning on corners of space. Capitol of Punk. <BR/><BR/>http://yellowarrow.net/capitolofpunk/<BR/><BR/>Two, the Minnesota Historical Society has developed a wiki that allows you to upload images, stories, audio, etc about any place that is meaningful to you. This is an effort to get away from the dominance of the National Register of Historic Places. It's a way to allow all places to be significant and worth saving - or at least remembering...<BR/><BR/>www.placeography.org<BR/><BR/>Finally, i was just in a meeting with one of the heads of the Library of Congress American Memory site. In conversation she was saying (literally no more that 10 minutes before i read this feed) that she wants to tag historic road markers with RIFDs so that cars that whizz by and don't stop can pick up the audio through their car's GPS. Fun idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6389181255786430083.post-50771930171762546092008-04-30T19:05:00.000-05:002008-04-30T19:05:00.000-05:00There is something to be said for these barcodes a...There is something to be said for these barcodes and tags - it's an interesting idea, but there's something about street art and how it connects you to the place/space in the present. In other words it becomes an identifier of the space.<BR/><BR/>I worry that these barcodes will start to take away from that recognition. Instead of appreciating and experiencing the space on its own, on your own, the barcodes force you to experience it through somebody else's eyes, thoughts, feelings. Or maybe I just don't like the infringement the receiver will have on the experience of the space - it becomes a secondary experience.<BR/><BR/>I don't know, pretty interesting though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com