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Hello non-existent reader! Hello future generation!



I'm making a mobile application (Android Platform) for my Topics in Digital Media class at NYU. For our latest assignment, I posed myself this question: “How would you make the city talk by walking through it?” My answer is < tag. >: an app that allows us to collectively vote (and perhaps affect) on public art, venerating the truly noble attempts and hastening the demise of the crappy ones. This is how it works:

1. As you're walking down the street, you'll get a little ping on your phone telling you that there's some graffiti nearby.
2. If you find it, and have the time to reflect on the art you see before you, let < tag. > know in any of three ways (or a combination of all three!):
* By rating the graffiti (is it art? or is it just scrawl?).
* By taking a picture of it and uploading it to the < tag. > server.
* By calling 311 to report the graffiti and mark it for cleanup.

I made a vid explaining it in better detail:


The app is in Beta right now, and I think I'll have a few testers from my class using it by the weekend. If any of you want to test it out (Android phones only at this point, sorry!!) drop me an email! I'll be submitting this to the NYC Big App competition (It's def. not going to win!) so any feedback will be useful!

P.S. I’m totally not a designer, so the app might look kind of garish to some. I plan on submitting this app to a big contest– if someone would like to help me out with design once I get a bit past my beta phase, please let me know!!!