BE551 Presentation Two

From UANotebook

Early Networks

• train graffiti
• hobo signs -- hobos/hitch hikers/trains
• ghost signs -- advertising, wall dogs as agents of comm. movement

Networks in Street Art and Graffiti

• network is making even "unplugged" places plugged in
  • Obey is widespread
  • Andre the Giant has a posse led to localized spin-offs
  • one term president
  • Wooster Collective
  • Street artists online Narboo Heck
  • Seattle street art group
• Advertisers getting in on it
  • Spacecraft clothing

TAGGING TAGGING TAGGING

• tagging versus tagging versus tagging
• It's not enough to have just pretty photos, they must be tagged with metadata... they also must be geolocated.

Geotagging

• Geotagging is probably the biggest thing in digital photography now
• connecting technology to location

• Flickr
  • Personal maps
  • Seattlest Group/Pool map
• Google
  • linking personal photos to maps
• Flickr and Place
  • Places --recent new Flickr service
• Semapedia
  • hyperlinking the built environment
  • plug in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse
• Geocaching
  • GPX describing location in a manner a GPS unit understands
  • caches near UW

Place is not dead... neither is the drive-in

Washington State Drive-ins

• nostalgia is a powerful motivator
• it is the "historic preservation" of a theme/concept
• a very unofficial, populist version of preservation