{"id":2038,"date":"2010-10-31T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/keller\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2010-10-31T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T18:02:08","slug":"why-is-there-a-usb-drive-sticking-out-of-this-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2010\/10\/31\/why-is-there-a-usb-drive-sticking-out-of-this-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is There a USB Drive Sticking Out of This Wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/blogs\/jo\/keller\/files\/2010\/10\/500x_deaddrops2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2039\" src=\"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/blogs\/jo\/keller\/files\/2010\/10\/500x_deaddrops2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Across New York, there are USB drives embedded in walls, buildings and curbs. The idea is to create an anonymous, offline file-sharing network in public space. The drives are completely public and anyone can plug in to drop and download files.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/10\/340x_deaddrops.jpg\" alt=\"Why Is There a USB Drive Sticking Out of This Wall?\" width=\"340\" \/><br \/>\nSeriously, you can plug the USB drive into your laptop. Like that guy right there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of an art project called &#8220;Dead Drops&#8221; by Aram Bartholl and I have to say, it&#8217;s pretty awesomely creative. I mean, if I saw a USB stick stick out of a random wall, I&#8217;d be dying to know what&#8217;s in there. I&#8217;d have to plug in. It&#8217;d also be interesting to see what people would anonymously share on the public drive, well, until some jackass decides to upload a virus to screw up everybody&#8217;s computer. [<a href=\"http:\/\/datenform.de\/blog\/dead-drops-preview\/\">Dead Drops<\/a>via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/10\/dead_drops_preview.html\">MAKE<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across New York, there are USB drives embedded in walls, buildings and curbs. The idea is to create an anonymous, offline file-sharing network in public space. The drives are completely public and anyone can plug in to drop and download&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/2010\/10\/31\/why-is-there-a-usb-drive-sticking-out-of-this-wall\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/dkeller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}