Banksy Fan

In this scenario, Joe, a hip Londoner, is a big fan of noted British graffiti artist Banksy, who naturally has embraced AR so he can place his art on Nelson’s Column, the Taj Mahal, the Hoover Dam, and so on, without being arrested.

Whenever Joe visits a place that’s new to him, he wants to be alerted when there’s a Banksy work in the neighborhood. And during the routine course of his life and work, he wants to to be proactively informed whenever there’s a new Banksy in London, either physical or AR, that he might not already have visited.

Banksy himself is an admirer of certain other AR artists, and is eager to pass along pointers to their work to his followers. Joe likes this and wants to hear about works recommended by Banksy too, as long as the difference is clear. Banksy also has comments to make about his life and the world; he paints these on a white brick wall in his studio, photographs them, and publishes them to his followers, who just need to find any old blank distraction-free surface and arrange to have Banksy’s latest remarks projected on it.

Joe doesn’t have the budget or inclination to use anything but an industry-standard mobile tablet for experiencing AR. He will occasionally purchase a pre-composed birthday card, or poster presentation of a much-loved work, from Banksy online, but he won’t pay a subscription fee.