Artist Clement Valla is a preservationist of sorts, capturing Google Earth’s alogrithmic mishaps. With minor adjusts and crops, his Bridges series is a surreal trip over stringy bridges, into caved-in overpass canyons of the Bronx and over spidery-tangles of Los Angeles highways. More warped terrain below. Read more »
After wowing us with some pretty amazing 3D images of the the city back in 2008, here’s a video preview of Google Earth’s latest update with down to the street level detail.
Despite her fear of heights, artist Molly Dilworth has already garlanded three roofs with Craigslist-bartered paint leftovers, just so they could be seen on Google Earth. The colorful swirlies and tiles would have been cooler if not sanctioned. In fact, it’s all pretty much the antithesis of street art, as up next is “solar-reflective paint on the roofs of new developments.” Read more »
Before: January 2007 (left) and After: December 2008 (right)
World dominator and internet search engine, Google, continues on its data gathering conquest. In addition to making huge strides with their big brothery ‘Street View’ maps, the internet monolith has also been furiously updating Googe Earth for Manhattan, It now includes thousands of photorealistic 3D buildings. Click HERE to see how good the new textures look. |Google Earth Blog|
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