The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Lovely article at Art Fag City,  on Google Street View’s incidentally captured moments.

Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world.

Art Fag City, Jon Rafman, Google Street View

Consistent with the company’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” this enormous project, titled Google Street View, was created for the sole purpose of adding a new feature to Google Maps.

Art Fag City, Jon Rafman, Google Street View

Never hiding its presence, but never announcing its arrival, the Street View vehicle is a systematic pursuer of fleeting moments. continue…

Graphopolis

Looking at graphic augmentation of the city + civilians.

…from a protest in Paris over the Iranian post-election crackdown, and the murder of  protester Neda Agha-Soltan:

Photo Jacques Brinon/Associated Press
Photo Jacques Brinon/Associated Press

…election posters hung in Tripoli around the election in spring 2009:

photo Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
photo Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

…images from Delete! (2005) site-specific project in Vienna, Austria
by Steinbrener/Dempf:

still from Delete! Delettering the Public Space
Delete! by Steinbrener/Dempf, Vienna, 2005
still from Delete! Delettering the Public Space
Delete! by Steinbrener/Dempf, Vienna, 2005

…in Toronto, Sean Martindale and Eric Cheung are turning street ad posters into
planters with The Poster Pocket Plants :

Poster Pocket Plants, image from The Torontoist
Poster Pocket Plants, image from The Torontoist (Click on image for more great pics.)
image from Spacing Toronto
image from Spacing Toronto

…the Object Orange project in Detroit from 2006:

Object Orange, Detroit
Object Orange, Detroit

..where the flat and the fizzy meet, with a cherry on top — artwork by Vinchen:

artwork by Vinchen
artwork by Vinchen