{"id":270,"date":"2011-12-15T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/?p=270"},"modified":"2011-12-15T07:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T07:12:20","slug":"restoring-a-mural-using-qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/2011\/12\/restoring-a-mural-using-qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring a mural using QR codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.woostercollective.com\/post\/using-qr-codes-to-restore-murals-to-their-original-state\">Wooster Collective<\/a> reader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmv\/6497679263\">Jason V.<\/a> shared an interesting series of photos of a mural in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=nanaimo+and+first+vancouver&#038;hl=en&#038;ll=49.269429,-123.056746&#038;spn=0.008527,0.016415&#038;hnear=Nanaimo+St+%26+E+1st+Ave,+Vancouver,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia,+Canada&#038;t=h&#038;z=16&#038;vpsrc=0&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=49.269435,-123.056961&#038;panoid=dC011J2Bt2Q1affuxr5juQ&#038;cbp=12,347.7,,1,0.74\">Vancouver<\/a>. 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hifimurals.ca\/murals\/murals.htm\">original mural<\/a>.  I went ahead and made an animated GIF of the whole repeating cycle, for your recursive pleasure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nanaimo_mural_sequence1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nanaimo_mural_sequence1.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"nanaimo_mural_sequence1\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-271\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nanaimo_mural_sequence1.gif 800w, http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nanaimo_mural_sequence1-300x216.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time someone has tried something like this, but it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen it in North America.  A Berlin-based artist named Sweza did something similar last year: <a href=\"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/2010\/05\/retrieving-buffed-graf-with-qr-codes\/\">Retrieving buffed graf with QR codes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stamen.com\/studio\/eric\">Eric Rodenbeck<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wooster 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,38,40,39],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-animated-gif","tag-mural","tag-qr-code","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grafarc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}