On 04/02/14 09:03 AM, marc garrett wrote: > Hacked milling machine spreads graffiti poetry around town. > > We tend to think of graffiti as being a semi-permanent mark left by an > unauthorized artist, but Dutch sand writing artist Gijs van Bon wants > his work to be ephemeral, so he designed a machine that he calls Skryf > that writes on the sidewalk using sand. > > Skryf started life as a CNC milling machine used for woodworking, but > Van Bon hacked it so that instead of cutting wood, it lays down a thin > line of fine white sand as it goes. The computer controlled cutting head > now holds the sand dispenser, and moves so that the letters are laid > down as neatly as any typewriter.
This relates to chalk, bleach, and moss graffiti I think. :-) I'm not sure how sand relates to legal defences of impermanence or cleaning, maybe it would be considered littering... - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
