{"id":1361,"date":"2009-05-30T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2009-05-30T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T23:27:56","slug":"resurrect-dead-on-planet-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1361","title":{"rendered":"Resurrect dead on planet Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly all the credit for this little project should go to John Young<\/a> and Chris Thompson<\/a> – a month or so ago they posted some pictures<\/a> of a linoleum QR Code to Flickr and I started thinking…\u00a0 John and Chris’ intent, I believe, is to place QR Code tiles around their stomping grounds and link them – via John’s p8tch<\/a> redirection server – to local info. My idea was less useful – useless, even – and goofily self-referential. First, two definitions:<\/p>\n

QR Codes – a matrix code or two dimensional bar code. QR Codes are big in Japan; they’re used to feed URLs to cell phones.<\/p>\n

Toynbee Tiles – “are messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American capitals.” *<\/a><\/p>\n

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My idea:<\/p>\n

With Chris’ help, make some QR Code Toynbee tiles and deploy them here and there (if I can get this going, I’ll be looking for tile droppers world wide). When and if someone scans the tile, they are taken to a web site where they are presented with a random image of a real Toynbee Tile. Not only would it be a cool bauble, it would also bring together a couple threads I\u2019ve been thinking about – the almost unnoticed human extension via gadgets that\u2019s happening ever more quickly and the slightly slower machine info embedding<\/a> that\u2019s rolling out here and there.<\/p>\n

The web site – mtoynbee.com<\/a> – is up and running. The ‘m’ stands for mediated or meta or messed-up or whatever else you care to force fit. You can click on the picture of the tile to access the blog where I’m stashing more info – n.b. – the QR Code post is sticky (at least for now); it will stay on top and the most recent post will be directly below it. The current sub-project is adhesive testing; the QRCode Toynbee Tiles need to stay intact and well-aligned. We humans, with our great pattern recognition skills, can pull meaning out of a tile that’s pretty bunged up – bar code scanners are nowhere near as good.<\/p>\n

I’ll post little updates here, pointing over to the Mediated Toynbee blog, when we hit milestones.<\/p>\n

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Nearly all the credit for this little project should go to John Young and Chris Thompson – a month or so ago they posted some pictures of a linoleum QR Code to Flickr and I started thinking…\u00a0 John and Chris’ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-making-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-lX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}