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Bluejacking - Unsolicited Bluetooth Messages
4:31 pm by admin in Digital
There is a project underway to raise awareness of the ways in which our activities and habits can be tracked. The art project is known as Location Oriented Critical Arts, or
Loca is grass-roots, pervasive surveillance. A person walking through the city centre hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert they see a message reading: We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave you network device in the air.
Loca is an exercise in everyday surveillance, tracking digital objects in physical space. What happens when it is easy for everyone to track everyone, when surveillance can be affected by consumer level technology within peer-to-peer networks without being routed through a central point?
Cool or creepy? I guess since it is under the guise of ‘art’ it may mean to be both… What next? A strap-on?
Black Light Tattoos
8:56 pm by admin in Uncategorized
So for those who must have a tattoo, but don’t want to actually see them in natural light, there is an option… it is called a black light tattoo.
Tattoo artist Richie, who lives and works in Colorado, has been offering UV blacklight reactive ink to his clients for most of his 4-year career. “Three and a half years ago, I was asked by a friend about the UV ink,” Richie says. “So I did a little research and got a sample of the ink and all the paperwork explaining how it was made and how safe it is. After trying a small sample on myself, I began to use the ink.”
Let me just add one more thing… tattoos are stupid… black light tattoos are even more stupid…
Oldies, but Goodies!
Tracking Artworks with GPS
A couple of silly artists run a funny experiment.
They called the experiment Art Tracking Module 002, named for the Trimtrac GPS transponder the hid behind the piece, which let them watch the art move all the hell over the city for three days before finally landing at a lumberyard.
Ascii Art
An ascii art program… cool!
Beauty Creates Urge to Destroy
Apparently, this is an actual phenomenon. Have you ever wanted to destroy something beautiful?
If you thought art galleries were quiet havens of contemplation, think again. Looking at great works of art can inspire a strong, sometimes irresistible urge to destroy, Italian researchers have found.
Dubbed the “David syndrome,” after the statue of the young […]
Pictures from Art Exhibit
Finally, here are some pics from ‘The Random Sample’ art exhibit… And yes, I intentionally called it “the” random sample, instead of “a” random sample.
FBI’s Top Ten Art Crimes
Well, I guess art crime pays.
The decision to set up an FBI Art Crimes Team in November 2004 was in part an acknowledgement of the obvious - that art crime is now big business.
By one estimation, transactions of $1bn to $2bn take place annually.
FBI’s Top Ten Art Crimes
From 7,000 to 10,000 looted and […]
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