Google Earth has glitches. These glitches make greatart.
Trapcode founder Peder Norrby’s series of well-executed screen captures of glitched out iOs map images give us a vision of a post-nuclear-holocaust world. From trees melting into the streets and flattened cars on collapsed highways to a deadlier Coney Island Cyclone, these images — produced, as always, by malfunctioning algorithms — offer a vivid glimpse into a dystopian future.
At some point during his Google Maps-scouring endeavors, German artist Daniel Schwarz noticed a strange phenomenon: the apparent coexistence of two contrasting seasons in the same place. Juxtapose is a collection of these glitched-out images, mostly of remote locations, taken directly from Google Maps. Although the satellite images give users a…
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…
This is one of those projects whose premise basically speaks for itself. A group of digital artists developed a program that runs Google's satellite images of Earth through facial recognition software, finding the faces that are hidden on the planet's landscape. Watch the brilliant software at work below, and see…
