Using mobile tagging to fight tagging. The bottom image appears on a smartphone when the real-world QR code is scanned.
It seems a mural sponsored by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, as a deterrent to graffiti, wound up attracting a little instead. But someone came up with an interesting temporary fix for the defacement.
A tipster named Jason informed street-art site Wooster Collective that a giant QR code had been placed over the offending, spray-painted tag.
And when passersby scan the code with their smartphones, they're served up an image of the original, undamaged mural, along with information about its origins.
That's a nice idea. But in describing the fix as "temporary" a few paragraphs back, I was expressing my hope that this approach (or something like it) won't somehow catch on and replace the actual restoration of murals.
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