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Via emergentfutures: Tattoo links to website through Smartphone app Ink fanatics are giving up just a little more skin for a new type of tattoo that takes identity to a whole new level. At The Jade Monkey Tattoo in Phoenix, artist Levi Smith is d…

Via emergentfutures:

Tattoo links to website through Smartphone app

Ink fanatics are giving up just a little more skin for a new type of tattoo that takes identity to a whole new level.

At The Jade Monkey Tattoo in Phoenix, artist Levi Smith is designing new tattooes called a quick response or “QR” code, which is very similar to a bar code.

The roughly 3 by 3 inch, black tattoo is being described as a marketing bar code tool that Smartphone users can scan directly into their phone. 

Full Story: ABC15.com

April 18, 2011
Tags QR Code, QR Codes, tattoo, body art
Childhood toys – freed from the confines of a dark, dusty attic – are the second thing I’ve “tagged,” thanks to Itizen.com, with a QR-Coded sticker in preparation for giving them away. If the toys’ new owner uses …

Childhood toys – freed from the confines of a dark, dusty attic – are the second thing I’ve “tagged,” thanks to Itizen.com, with a QR-Coded sticker in preparation for giving them away.

If the toys’ new owner uses a mobile phone to read the code, I expect he or she will see this story about them, to learn a little bit about their history.

Tagged item/story numero uno (about a Mexican dress) can be found here. (That post contains links to miscellaneous QR Code-related info).

I intend to tag other things (until the novelty of it wears off, which, I suspect, may be sooner, rather than later!). Stay tuned.

September 1, 2010
Tags QR Code, digital, story telling, novelty, vintage, toys, ready to inspire future chefs
Almost two months ago, I signed up for an Itizen account and requested a batch of QR Coded tags … intending to record and share the story of at least one object … At last – yesterday – I posted story #1: the Mexican Dress. …

Almost two months ago, I signed up for an Itizen account and requested a batch of QR Coded tags … intending to record and share the story of at least one object …

At last – yesterday – I posted story #1: the Mexican Dress.

If you sign up for Itizen, or a similar service, how would you use it?


Related: A couple of QR Code posts: http://mollyblock.tumblr.com/tagged/qr-code

Also, my friend Michael Sean Wright circulated yesterday this piece about QR Codes, which, in addition to providing a general description of what they are, says: “The advantages of having a QR Code on your business cards, or any other promotional material for that matter, is: you will make the print interactive (this is one way to make print interact, another one is augmented reality), you will have the ability to track any incoming visitor from your creation and at the same time you will stand out from the crowd as your business card will have a surprising new element.” Food for thought.

August 23, 2010
Tags QR Code, QR Codes, sharing, digital, story, story telling, Itizen
Via unconsumption: A Discarded Chair Finds Its Way Home Again - NYTimes.com Here’s something to think about: Wouldn’t this chair’s “story” be a good one to record and share via a service/app (using QR Codes) such as Itizen, described by Rob at Murk…

Via unconsumption:

A Discarded Chair Finds Its Way Home Again - NYTimes.com

Here’s something to think about: Wouldn’t this chair’s “story” be a good one to record and share via a service/app (using QR Codes) such as Itizen, described by Rob at Murketing.com and here on Unconsumption?!

August 8, 2010
Tags reuse, community, nice story, QR Code
Via unconsumption: To help reduce packaging waste, Columbia Sportswear has, for the past year, offered customers the option of having their purchases shipped in slightly used cardboard boxes. The story gets better: The company went a step further b…

Via unconsumption:

To help reduce packaging waste, Columbia Sportswear has, for the past year, offered customers the option of having their purchases shipped in slightly used cardboard boxes.

The story gets better: The company went a step further by offering recycled boxes labeled with QR Codes, and created a tracking/story-sharing program known as A Box Life. Customers who request and receive coded boxes are asked to enter on the Box Life Web site their locations, stories, and boxes’ unique codes — a ”See where it’s been. Share where it’s going.” opportunity.

The screen shot I captured this evening (August 2) shows 2,704 used boxes traveling more than 1.4 million miles, saving almost 1,400 boxes. Wouldn’t you say that’s an impressive story, so far?

Related: Unconsumption post and Murketing.com post about using QR Codes to provide context, to share the narrative of things

August 2, 2010
Tags CSR, QR Code, box, packaging, recycled, story, story telling
Reblogging my unconsumption post: “RememberMe” Uses Digital Clothing Tags to Record a Garment’s History | Ecouterre Additional information: http://www.talesofthings.com Similar services / apps for the recording and sharing of objects’ stories…

Reblogging my unconsumption post:

“RememberMe” Uses Digital Clothing Tags to Record a Garment’s History | Ecouterre

Additional information: http://www.talesofthings.com

Similar services / apps for the recording and sharing of objects’ stories:  http://www.stickybits.com; http://itizen.com

Such services have great potential among resellers, such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, and other thrift outlets.

Supplemental QR Code reading: Rob Walker’s prescient March 2008 New York Times Consumed column and Mashable’s “mainstream” July 20, 2010 post

July 22, 2010
Source: http://www.ecouterre.com/20481/rememberme-...
Tags QR Code, RFID, story telling, TOTeM, RememberMe, digital memory, nonprofit, Oxfam

View a favorite vintage sign photo series:

Texas Vintage Neon Signs
92 dpi screen Texas Neon Now Gone.jpg
92 dpi screen Texas Favorite Study 2.jpg
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92 dpi screen Cafe Neon Sign 4.jpg
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