A Community-Driven Street Art App

We sure do love city-related apps. Some of them are for common and community good, some others are just for fun, others are both. Combining street art with crowd-sourcing, 1AM Mobile is such an app. This new, free community-driven photography application developed by San Francisco-based First Amendment Gallery aims to present the world’s street art on one platform.

1AM Mobile enables users to take photos of street art pieces, upload, geo-tag and share them with the rest of the community. The result is an ever-growing, crowd-sourced, world-wide digital library of beautiful street art.

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Wouldn’t it be great to know where and which works you can find whenever you visit a city and experience them yourself? Apart from accurate directions to visit each project, the app gives options to share, tag, follow, and/or comment on works, creating a sort of social media platform for street art fanatics.

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Not only would it be fun to have access to those public works of art whenever you want, but it is also a great way to preserve the so-much delicate existence of those works in (at least) the virtual realm. 1AM Mobile is a platform that could function as a historical archive of the street art movement around the world, as the initiators not only wish to capture the initial stage of a work, but its whole process and possible extinction throughout time.

The app is available for free download on the iTunes App Store.

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