Hi,

I am under the impressions that the locative art depicted in Spook Country isn't real, but I have come across something that could be the seed of this sort of thing starting. From New Scientist 31 May 2008 from a story about the semantic web called "One day the web will answer all your questions":

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Two members of the DBPpedia team ... have developed mobile DBpedia, a cellphone application that takes the user's GPS position and displays Wikipedia articles on places in the vicinity, as well as showing them on the map. It also draws information from any source that has made its data available in an appropriate format. This includes articles from Revyu, a semantic website that lets its users post reviews of restaurants and places of interest, along with photos from Flickr that have been tagged with location coordinates.
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Anyone else seen any examples of the locative making its way into real life?

There was some stuff on other projects like that around here somewhere.

I still never got my answer on how feasible all the locative art is right now.

I have a question for you: You registered about 5 months ago and don't much post. Do you keep up with the board, "lurk" or what have you?

I am curious because I was wondering how someone who doesn't much post somewhere would get it in there head to do so every once in awhile. What's the thought process?

"Oh, this is a good topic for site XYZ." Like that?

I haven't ever really much posted in more than one place so I am curious.

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Originally posted by UberDog:
I have a question for you: You registered about 5 months ago and don't much post. Do you keep up with the board, "lurk" or what have you?

I am curious because I was wondering how someone who doesn't much post somewhere would get it in there head to do so every once in awhile. What's the thought process?

"Oh, this is a good topic for site XYZ." Like that?

I haven't ever really much posted in more than one place so I am curious.

Well I did register on this site a while ago when Pattern Recognition first came out, but never posted much. Then I decided to read all the WG books back-to-back (something I had never done before), culminating with Spook Country. After I read that I wondered about Bigend's motivation and knowing of this board's existence I put up a post.

Then I was reading New Scientist last night and read that article and immediately thought of Spook Country, so I put up a post.

I don't actually lurk here and read other posts, but I do subscribe to my own posts in a egotistic way. I find keeping up with these sorts of boards a whole lot of hard work, so don't tend to read all the posts.

So I guess my posting habits are mostly selfish and narcissistic.

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Originally posted by norkmeister: I find keeping up with these sorts of boards a whole lot of hard work, so don't tend to read all the posts.

So I guess my posting habits are mostly selfish and narcissistic.

My brother!

related to the topic a little.

for some years now criminals have made transactions only on coordinates, locations of caches. what's inside; use imagination.

in finland the donuthogs caught up with this only three years back

Locative Art - of a slightly different kind. certainly more lo-tec, but quite real...
Presenting: The Fulgurator

curious. wonder what else they'll do with it.

welcome to the board miss james.

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Originally posted by MissJames:
Locative Art - of a slightly different kind. certainly more lo-tec, but quite real...
Presenting: The Fulgurator

What did it say on the altered sign, something about people died last week...?

"Hundreds of people died last year by trying this at the US/Mexico border" is projected over the explanatory sign at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

I think this was linked in the "Thread About Photography." Stevie-S was displeased about the idea of someone mucking with a photograph (on the act of taking it) this way.