Google's StreetView camera has tooled around the world, taking photos of millions of miles of byways with it's unblinking eye. And sometimes, unintentionally that eye captures some extraordinary images. A Canadian artist named Jon Rafman has been scanning Google's street views looking for things and people out of the ordinary and the design website Demilked has compiled some of his best screenshots.
Some of the images are shocking, like this van on fire above, and some are truly beautiful, like this flock of seagulls in flight below. Some are downright disturbing, like a baby crawling on an urban sidewalk by itself in front of a Gucci store. Rafman is not the only one who has found art in the mundane. A California based artist Doug Rickard has found interest in the street views of poor and depressed neighborhoods.
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August 31, 2012
December 31, 2011
NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL: A Final Look Back At 2011
In my final post for 2011, I wanted to share this year's zeitgeist video made by the folks at Google which looks back on the past year in a musical and moving way. I know it's basically an ad for Google and it's web services....but it's a damn good one! I especially love the inclusion of the gay solider Randy Phillips telling his dad he's gay from back in September, just hours after Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed.
Anyway, 2011 was a clearly momentous news year in many ways that will not soon be forgotten, from the triumphs and tragedies of Arab Spring to the Occupy movement this fall. In little under 3 minutes, this video captures the emotions of a remarkable year...
Anyway, 2011 was a clearly momentous news year in many ways that will not soon be forgotten, from the triumphs and tragedies of Arab Spring to the Occupy movement this fall. In little under 3 minutes, this video captures the emotions of a remarkable year...
May 5, 2011
Google Brings "It Gets Better" To Prime Time
During this week's episode of GLEE, Google aired an ad for it's Chrome browser which was also a beautiful PSA for the "It Gets Better" campaign that columnist Dan Savage started last fall with a video heard round the world. The spot is really amazing...and a tear-jerker too. Bravo Google!
May 25, 2009
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me
The Google-Car is in New York City this month, updating the "street view" pictures on Google Maps. I had always imagined the camera that took these shots to be somewhat more discrete, like in a van with tinted windows or something. But it's really quite obvious, as the picture above shows. Despite this, Google is apparently very secretive about the car's operation as an article in the TIMES explained this weekend. Earlier this year, the Google-Car got some unwanted publicity when it ran over a deer and the images were captured and were actually on Google maps for a while. There is even a website which compiles some of the stranger/funnier images the Google-car has caught as it wanders the world's streets....it's streetviewfun.com.
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