Posts Tagged ‘street art’

Urban Procedural Rhetorics — Transcript of My TWAB 2008 Talk

In Talks on 27 May 2008 tagged 2008, alternate reality games, architecture, ARGs, cameras, cities, conferences, control, culture, events, everyware, flash mobs, free running, freedom, game design, GD, graffiti, hoaxes, interaction design, IxD, LED throwies, Mario Question Blocks, mobility, physical computing, play, politics, presentations, privacy, procedural rhetoric, Provo, public space, security, September 12, skateboarding, slides, street art, surveillance, Talks, The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility, TWAB, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing, UFOs, urbanism, user experience, UX, Zona Incerta with 22 comments

This is a transcript of my presentation at The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility in Amsterdam on 22 May. Since the majority of paying attendees were local I presented in Dutch. However, English appears to be the lingua franca of the internet, so here I offer a translation. I have uploaded the slides to SlideShare [...]

An Assortment of Weird Things in Public Spaces

In Articles on 1 May 2008 tagged Aqua Teen Hunger Force, art, Banksy, culture, forteana, public space, street art, Super Mario Bros., UFOs with Comments Off

I’ve been researching street art and related topics lately, and have come across a range of interesting things people have placed in public spaces. I thought it would be fun (and perhaps enlightening) to collect them here. Each entry follows a similar format, listing what was left, by whom and with what intent, what it [...]

K-141 АПЛ Курск

In Articles on 8 September 2006 tagged art, Flickr, graffiti, Kursk, photos, stencils, street art, vacation, Venice, weirdness with Comments Off

Sometimes you learn something strange while tagging vacation shots. At least that was the case with this photo I took in Venice: Looking for some proper tags I Googled “K-141” and found a Wikipedia article on the Russian submarine Kursk. I pulled out the proper Russian text to use as tags but was puzzled about [...]

Paris Mashed Up

In Articles on 6 September 2006 tagged art, Banksy, Danger Mouse, mash-ups, music, Paris Hilton, remix, street art with Comments Off

Street art hero Banksy strikes again: he’s spread 500 mashed up copies of Paris Hilton’s new album through 48 record stores in the UK. This excellent video shows how he goes about Photoshopping and pasting up the booklet, inserting a new CD and sneaking it into an HMV shop. The music on the spoof album [...]

Ondergrond.org – HKU-Studenten Aan De Folksonomy

In Articles on 1 March 2006 tagged folksonomy, graffiti, HKU, street art, study, tagging, web 2.0, web applications with 3 comments

Via commentaar op een recent artikel op open.info.nl kwam ik op de site Ondergrond – een folksonomy voor / van street art. De site is een EMMA-afstudeerproject van een aantal HKU-studenten. De site daagt bezoekers met behulp van stellingen en vragen uit om bij foto’s van graffiti en stickers tags achter te laten. Een interessante [...]

Hypernarrative #0

In Articles on 17 July 2005 tagged graffiti, photos, street art, study with 1 comment

Hypernarrative #0 Originally uploaded by Kaeru.New set at Flickr: a whole bunch of old photos of stickers, stencils and graffiti at a Dutch railway station.