The Curious Frontier of Red
July 3, 2015 on 4:17 am | In global news, related links | Comments Off on The Curious Frontier of RedUK-based stencil artist Mobstr noticed something odd about the way a wall in his neighborhood got buffed, so he decided to do a little psychological experiment, with hilarious results. I went ahead and grafarc-ized it into an animated gif.
Restoring a mural using QR codes
December 15, 2011 on 7:12 am | In global news | Comments Off on Restoring a mural using QR codesWooster Collective reader Jason V. shared an interesting series of photos of a mural in Vancouver. After the mural was tagged with a big red anarchy sign, someone went over the tag with a giant QR code, apparently painted by hand. The code leads back to an image of the original mural. I went ahead and made an animated GIF of the whole repeating cycle, for your recursive pleasure:
This isn’t the first time someone has tried something like this, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it in North America. A Berlin-based artist named Sweza did something similar last year: Retrieving buffed graf with QR codes
Thanks to Eric Rodenbeck for the link!
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