Hidden Markings

The markings left by the warchalkers reminded me straight away of something from the Blade movies.

In the films the vampires use hidden markings to identify safe houses to other vampires. The markings themselves are referred to as glyphs. One of the techniques the filmmakers use to portray these markings is by having them painted in UV, i.e. only visible under a black light.

I thought this threw up some really nice visuals. I have had a look for an example and have yet to find one as my thieving housemates have nicked me copy of the film.

As soon as I find some I’ll throw them in a post to show.

Anyway, as for the piece of media we have to produce for this project Chris had the idea of an alternative graphical representation showing the data clouds over an urban environment. I thought that either incorporated within this or as a separate piece it would be nice to show these ‘warchalks’ in this kinda way.

Maybe similar to the video game GTA San Andreas and its ‘tags’ that can be found around the cities. I can show ya one of these…



I’ll have a think and get back…..