Paint the Town
04/23/2010I heard about a new type of vending machine today, and had to find out more. It doesn’t do anything fancy, offer a show to the user, or involve any high-tech features; it’s just a regular old glass-front machine. But what is inside caught me off guard. Spray paint.
The thing that makes this machine so unusual is its intent: Graffiti. The Graffomat (www.graffomat.com) offers anything and everything, from paint and markers to gloves and ski masks, that a graffiti artist could want. See a blank canvas on that highway overpass but lack the supplies in your car? You may be in luck if a Graffomat is nearby.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall when a city makes the decision to allow one of these machines within its limits. Are there places that encourage graffiti? Also, I find it funny, if not a little improbable, that the vendors in the photos of the machine are in front of a graffiti covered wall, with not a mar, scratch, or sign of paint on it at all. Not that I have any experience, but if I had to put money on what would be first in line to get decorated…
Any thoughts on this one? I’m curious if anyone has actually seen one out in the field!
