Tag: Google Street View
Here’s a Street View time warp glitch a little more drastic than the one we showed you earlier this year. Click here to be transported to Staten Island’s Kissena Avenue, then take one step forward, and see the scope of destruction Hurricane Sandy left in its wake. It’s fucking mind boggling and sad. Kudos to Redditor […]
At 2,722 feet, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is almost 1.5 times the size of the finished 1WTC, at 1,776 feet (take that, freedom!). What’s it like inside? The latest installment of Google’s Trekker Street View project, which maps areas inaccessible to the company’s camera-equipped vans (check out the Grand Canyon here) goes […]
We’ve seen decisive moments captured in Google Street View by photographers Michael Wolf. We’ve seen the cinematic edge of rough neighborhoods in Doug Rickard work. We loved how Clement Valla explored the glitching of the real world through this interface. Steve Strip’s video for “Hood” is all of those things, plus live capture of swooping in bird-eye […]
From kaleidoscopic Rorschach tests to fractal persian rugs, Google Maps has its nifty artsy uses. This might be the greatest one yet: Google Street View Hyperlapse, aka your favorite new time-sucker. Created by Canadian digital studio Teehan + Lax, the program stitches together thousands of images from Google Street View to create gorgeous, dizzying animated films that […]
Having stitched together over 9500 images, Google Street View team set live today their 75 mile, 360-degree documented hike down two main trails at Grand Canyon Nation Park (address is approximate). Google sent out three teams of two each equipped with a Trekker, a lighter, miniature version of their cameras previously strapped to vans, trikes and […]
Here comes Henry Hill and he’s going to beat you, Google Street View truck dude! This Google Street Scene tumblr has one the best movie net art collections you’ll ever see. The shot-scouting and Photoshop wizardry looks damn meticulous. Blue Velvet house? Check. Godfather ambush spot? Check. Unbridled cinephiliac excitement? Checkity-check-check. “The address is approximate.” Well, no shit. […]
