“Are You Human?” urban intervention, 2009 : turn CAPTCHAs into cut-outs, mount them in the urban environment, and they blend into the tag landscape. This came up after contemplating “artisanal integers”, and the concept of taking something digital and ephemeral and making a hand-made, long-lived physical artifact from it. (via ted byfield)
(tags: art sculpture captchas physical artifacts tags graffiti human urban)Brooklyn Integers | Integers as a service : Integers artisanally hand-crafted for you. See also the sister site, missionintegers.com: “Each of our bespoke numbers is created just for you in San Francisco’s historic Mission District. What will you use it for? A letter-pressed receipt. A special touch of latte art. A globally-unique user ID. A woolen hat. The possibilities are as infinite as the space of 64-bit unsigned ints.” (via John Allspaw)
(tags: via:allspaw humour funny integers artisan satire hand-crafted)