A compendium of geek graffiti
A Web site has gathered a diverse collection of images of geek-related graffiti from around the world.
Seattle photographer Ryan Welsh snapped this photo on Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus.
(Credit: RyanWelshPhotography.com)If you can count on geeks for one thing, it's a creative approach to traditional things.
For example, l33tspeak as an alternative to regular language. Or LOLCats as an alternative to the usual annoying pictures of cats.
That's why I wasn't surprised to find, over at Laughing Squid, a post about a site that is now collecting images of geek graffiti.
This, if you're wondering, is a small, but growing, trend in which geeks--or folks taking on geek tendencies--tag some public place with some kind of tech-inspired message.
For example, on the West Bank side of the Israeli security wall--the same side that artist Banksy added his masterpieces of visual political commentary--someone spray-painted the oh-so-familiar term "Ctrl+Alt+Delete."
Other examples are somone's having tagged the word "Linux" over a Microsoft Windows logo in a subway station ad, and someone stenciling the binary code for the Spanish word "amor," or "love," on a Barcelona wall. At least, that's what the photographer says the binary meant. Not being a proficient binary reader, I suppose it's possible it said "hate." What do I know?
The site that's pulling these all together only has 13 examples for now, but I bet there are countless others out there, just waiting to be discovered. So if you find any really good ones, please send them to me and I might just post it here at Geek Gestalt.
