FARK.com: (6743079) Oh, look at that nice piece of abstract art. Why are all those young boys pointing their phones at it?

		Oh, look at that nice piece of abstract art. Why are all those young boys pointing their phones at it? (cbc.ca)		55
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Mentat

2011-11-18 01:08:36 AM

This sounds like the start of a plot for a Neal Stephenson novel.

QR codes begin popping up all over the city. Curious smartphone users take pictures of the QR codes which takes them to a web site that shows only static. Unbeknownst to the phone users, their minds have now been hacked by the Bulgarian lineage of the Knights Hospitaller. The users are now compelled to pass the QR codes around to uninfected users. Only a plucky lesbian barista/Hungarian death metal guitarist and an aging Gen X e-reader enthusiast can prevent the human race from becoming one giant cultural botnet.

BroVinny

2011-11-18 02:21:33 AM

Mentat: This sounds like the start of a plot for a Neal Stephenson novel.

QR codes begin popping up all over the city. Curious smartphone users take pictures of the QR codes which takes them to a web site that shows only static. Unbeknownst to the phone users, their minds have now been hacked by the Bulgarian lineage of the Knights Hospitaller. The users are now compelled to pass the QR codes around to uninfected users. Only a plucky lesbian barista/Hungarian death metal guitarist and an aging Gen X e-reader enthusiast can prevent the human race from becoming one giant cultural botnet.

Yeah, but are the Waterhouses involved?

haemaker

2011-11-18 02:53:49 AM

Here it is...

NSFW

weave

2011-11-18 05:19:40 AM

I wonder how many snotty art viewers stood around that QR code pic and remarked how impressive it was.

nekom

2011-11-18 06:10:10 AM

"But in that (enlarged) scale, would you really know that it is a QR code? Because you're used to seeing them so small on products."

umm yes.

swahnhennessy

2011-11-18 07:04:54 AM

"And we have a few guidelines where we don't display artwork that might be offensive to some age groups, some cultures," she said, so "we thought that we should remove it."

Yeah, Fredericton, you suck.

Lith

2011-11-18 07:05:05 AM

haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

How is that NSFW? It's a fricken IR image, it's just bodyheat. If IR images are NSFW what's next X-rays? MRIs? My doc's gonna have some 'splainin' to do.

ChubbyTiger

2011-11-18 07:17:44 AM

Was you ever in Fredericton?
See the King he does come down.
See the King in his golden crown.
Riding on a donkey.

Sid_6.7

2011-11-18 07:25:34 AM

swahnhennessy: "And we have a few guidelines where we don't display artwork that might be offensive to some age groups, some cultures," she said, so "we thought that we should remove it."

Yeah, Fredericton, you suck.

Do art critics count as "some cultures"? Then how can they post anything?

Old enough to know better

2011-11-18 07:28:49 AM

haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

Thats it?

quickdraw

2011-11-18 07:33:02 AM

The artist is brilliant. The gallery's policies are idiotic but they have made this guy's career.

Very nice piece too.

Two Dogs Farking

2011-11-18 07:37:54 AM

haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

OMG A BOOBIE!

Fett56

2011-11-18 07:43:24 AM

Hey, that's actually a really good picture too. At least, i enjoy it a lot.

/fap fap fap

dready zim

2011-11-18 07:44:17 AM

The fact that you are offended does not make you right.

dready zim

2011-11-18 07:48:24 AM

Lith: haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

How is that NSFW? It's a fricken IR image, it's just bodyheat. If IR images are NSFW what's next X-rays? MRIs? My doc's gonna have some 'splainin' to do.

Allow me to let you in on some photograpgic history. Before digital pictures like the sort you take on your Iphone, there were cameras that took images on rolls of plastic film embedded with light reactive chemicals. When these first came out they could not record colour so the images showed shades of grey. This was known as BLACK AND WHITE photography.

Some artists make images now in BLACK AND WHITE unlike the images of your mother when they search for her with IR cameras when she escapes and starts raping men.

Metraxis

2011-11-18 07:52:37 AM

BroVinny: Mentat: This sounds like the start of a plot for a Neal Stephenson novel.

QR codes begin popping up all over the city. Curious smartphone users take pictures of the QR codes which takes them to a web site that shows only static. Unbeknownst to the phone users, their minds have now been hacked by the Bulgarian lineage of the Knights Hospitaller. The users are now compelled to pass the QR codes around to uninfected users. Only a plucky lesbian barista/Hungarian death metal guitarist and an aging Gen X e-reader enthusiast can prevent the human race from becoming one giant cultural botnet.

Yeah, but are the Waterhouses involved?

No, but Enoch the Red is.

sinanju

2011-11-18 07:55:25 AM

So, was the idiot who made the decision mentally scarred as a child by the White Rock logo on a can of root beer?

MannaxOne

2011-11-18 07:57:00 AM

Old enough to know better: haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

Thats it?

That was my thought.
Seriously, people, the human body is not anything to be ashamed of it if is taken care of.

Doctor Jan Itor

2011-11-18 08:04:47 AM

As someone who wrote a QR code scanner app, I have the weirdest boner right now.

HotIgneous Intruder

2011-11-18 08:11:23 AM

Trouble with a capital T in Fredericton. That's spelled with T and that rhymes with B and that stands for BOOBIES!

Ask yourselves this: What would Farley Mowat do?

/Boobies: Still considered tools of the debil!
//Really, Canada?
///Fredericton, up by Maine, in the Maritimes.

EvilEgg

2011-11-18 08:25:07 AM

haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

I can't fap to this

apeiron242

2011-11-18 08:26:02 AM

weave: I wonder how many snotty art viewers stood around that QR code pic and remarked how impressive it was.

Pot? This is kettle.

ihatedumbpeople

2011-11-18 08:32:57 AM

oblig.

/yeah, scan that one.

JinxofSpades

2011-11-18 08:38:58 AM

ihatedumbpeople: oblig.

[qrcode.kaywa.com image 248x248]

/yeah, scan that one.

Nice.

Moonk

2011-11-18 08:39:32 AM

dready zim: Lith: haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

How is that NSFW? It's a fricken IR image, it's just bodyheat. If IR images are NSFW what's next X-rays? MRIs? My doc's gonna have some 'splainin' to do.

Allow me to let you in on some photograpgic history. Before digital pictures like the sort you take on your Iphone, there were cameras that took images on rolls of plastic film embedded with light reactive chemicals. When these first came out they could not record colour so the images showed shades of grey. This was known as BLACK AND WHITE photography.

Some artists make images now in BLACK AND WHITE unlike the images of your mother when they search for her with IR cameras when she escapes and starts raping men.

from the top of the photo at the link: "Emersion A Digital Infrared Image created byJeff Crawford (16 inches x 33 inches)"
Now go have a cuppa and apologize to poor Brother Vincenzo.

Moonk

2011-11-18 08:41:13 AM

Moonk: poor Brother Vincenzo.

NAd by BrovVinny i mean Liith, wrong user quoted

Hagbardr

2011-11-18 08:54:09 AM

ihatedumbpeople

2011-11-18 08:55:42 AM

Hagbardr: [img20.imageshack.us image 280x280]

I won't say what that is to spoil it, but classic....classic.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost

2011-11-18 08:59:13 AM

Other artwork displayed in the gallery.

sno man

2011-11-18 09:02:27 AM

I was all set to get a good rant on about the gallery in question needing to grow a pair, then it turns out it's the city hall. Totally different rules. (which is sad, but I digress). A gallery can be provoking and not have to worry about every little minded patron coming through, A city hall needs to be inclusive which usually means dumbing it down for even the Puritans. Art should provoke emotion, not just match the couch. I think too many people either never worked that out or have forgotten.

rudemix

2011-11-18 09:04:37 AM

It must be horrible for some people to have to be in the presence of a breast with the lights on, or said breast not being used to feed a quiverfull of babies. Thankfully they have pictures of some flogged, bone broken, bloodied mess, nailed to a cross they can go home to for comfort.

JosephFinn

2011-11-18 09:08:15 AM

Hagbardr: [img20.imageshack.us image 280x280]

Well done.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost

2011-11-18 09:14:33 AM

rudemix: It must be horrible for some people to have to be in the presence of a breast with the lights on, or said breast not being used to feed a quiverfull of babies. Thankfully they have pictures of some flogged, bone broken, bloodied mess, nailed to a cross they can go home to for comfort.

Yeah, those freakin Muslum fundamentalists.

way south

2011-11-18 09:37:17 AM

ihatedumbpeople: oblig.

/yeah, scan that one.

I see it as a modern expression of mans struggles for individuality against the pressures of socital demands. The artist is a true master of neo-cubism in monochromatic values.

/it's like, cubes within cubes.
/Deep, man.
/dunno what its linked to...
/hopefully it's something ironic.

rudemix

2011-11-18 09:38:42 AM

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: rudemix: It must be horrible for some people to have to be in the presence of a breast with the lights on, or said breast not being used to feed a quiverfull of babies. Thankfully they have pictures of some flogged, bone broken, bloodied mess, nailed to a cross they can go home to for comfort.

Yeah, those freakin Muslum fundamentalists.

Any and all fundamentalists. Pictures of massacred messiahs, or massacred infidels, comfort in blood is much more natural and acceptable to a god than a boob could ever be.

Zachs Kappler

2011-11-18 09:51:33 AM

ihatedumbpeople: oblig.

[qrcode.kaywa.com image 248x248]

/yeah, scan that one.

I find this image highly offensive! How dare he use Internet Explorer 6!

/Here's hoping the QR doesn't go the way of the CueCat, ever.

SolidShadow

2011-11-18 10:03:13 AM

Spent some time in Japan this fall.
I can't really describe how good it felt to be in a country that wasn't afraid of boobs.
Seriously! It felt very liberating.

AbbeySomeone

2011-11-18 10:08:27 AM

Good for the artist.

Is there anything that doesn't offend someone or some group? Some people should just stay home.

AppleOptionEsc

2011-11-18 10:08:49 AM

SolidShadow: Spent some time in Japan this fall.
I can't really describe how good it felt to be in a country that wasn't afraid of boobs.
Seriously! It felt very liberating.

That explains why they let you in.

/ba-zing!
//sorry, but the setup was right there.

mrmyxolodian

2011-11-18 10:15:06 AM

Metraxis: BroVinny: Mentat: This sounds like the start of a plot for a Neal Stephenson novel.

QR codes begin popping up all over the city. Curious smartphone users take pictures of the QR codes which takes them to a web site that shows only static. Unbeknownst to the phone users, their minds have now been hacked by the Bulgarian lineage of the Knights Hospitaller. The users are now compelled to pass the QR codes around to uninfected users. Only a plucky lesbian barista/Hungarian death metal guitarist and an aging Gen X e-reader enthusiast can prevent the human race from becoming one giant cultural botnet.

Yeah, but are the Waterhouses involved?

No, but Enoch the Red is.

Flesh that out for another 900 pages or so, and you got yourself a book!

BeerBear

2011-11-18 10:23:08 AM

haemaker: Here it is...

NSFW

That's it? I wouldn't get in trouble at work for looking at that

ihatedumbpeople

2011-11-18 10:23:29 AM

Zachs Kappler: ihatedumbpeople: oblig.

[qrcode.kaywa.com image 248x248]

/yeah, scan that one.

I find this image highly offensive! How dare he use Internet Explorer 6!

/Here's hoping the QR doesn't go the way of the CueCat, ever.

Funny you mention CueCat...some guy in our office brought that up when this thread was going...I hadn't heard of them before.

PsyLord

2011-11-18 10:24:07 AM

Has anyone ever tried to alter those QR codes at department stores?

/surprised I haven't heard of people doing that

GardenWeasel

2011-11-18 10:24:49 AM

Hagbardr: [img20.imageshack.us image 280x280]

You glorious bastard. I hate you.

SolidShadow

2011-11-18 10:26:57 AM

AppleOptionEsc: SolidShadow: Spent some time in Japan this fall.
I can't really describe how good it felt to be in a country that wasn't afraid of boobs.
Seriously! It felt very liberating.

That explains why they let you in.

/ba-zing!
//sorry, but the setup was right there.

NP, good one.
I'm in Fredericton NB and to be completely honest this area is the bible belt of the east coast.
There are so many stuffy people in this "city" I'm surprised anybody can breathe.
There are so many noses in the air I'm surprised we don't have mass drownings when it rains.
/But seriously there are a lot of snobbery in this backwater burg.

StopLurkListen

2011-11-18 11:04:41 AM

Welcome to America.

84 year old woman's face dripping with pepper spray, a Marine veteran bleeding from a cracked skull = NO PROBLEM

See a nipple = OMG OMG OMG

LazarusLong42

2011-11-18 11:09:01 AM

ihatedumbpeople: Hagbardr: [img20.imageshack.us image 280x280]

I won't say what that is to spoil it, but classic....classic.

It's either a rickroll or a link to a certain site with a certain... anality to it, that otherwise wouldn't get past Fark's filters.

I hope it's the first, but no farking way I'm scanning it, just in case.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost

2011-11-18 11:14:31 AM

LazarusLong42: ihatedumbpeople: Hagbardr: [img20.imageshack.us image 280x280]

I won't say what that is to spoil it, but classic....classic.

It's either a rickroll or a link to a certain site with a certain... anality to it, that otherwise wouldn't get past Fark's filters.

I hope it's the first, but no farking way I'm scanning it, just in case.

It's SFW, and general audiences.

Jackpot777

2011-11-18 01:02:25 PM

Hagbardr: [img20.imageshack.us image 280x280]

qrcode.kaywa.com

guardian_devil

2011-11-18 02:26:12 PM

StopLurkListen: Welcome to America.

84 year old woman's face dripping with pepper spray, a Marine veteran bleeding from a cracked skull = NO PROBLEM

See a nipple = OMG OMG OMG

Please read the article. Jesus, even just LOOK at the tag! CBC.

I'm from Fredericton. We have the second highest homosexual population per capita in North America, but there is a lot of old conservative money still kicking around. It makes for weird controversies.

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