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Putting On a Show For the Google Streetview Camera

Posted by timothy on from the look-ma-no-pants dept.

Urban Garlic writes "The community surrounding Samsonia Way in Pittsburgh were ready when the Google StreetView car arrived, and staged a 21st-century public art project. Also celebrated in this Washington Post article, and Kelso's Corner, which also has a collection of public art in StreetView."

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  1. Netculture by 51M02 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This does show how much being online is part of everyone culture now. Back in the 90's putting a web page with your pictures and we would have easily called you narcissist and think of you as a jerk.

    But now, euh... no sorry, nevermind.

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  2. Why this is important by professorguy · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This is important work because now when you are caught (forever) in an embarrassing position by Street View, you can claim it was an art project.

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    Just getting people to look at street view and think "Maybe they did this on purpose because they saw the van coming" is great. Don't trust everything you see is a good lesson for those who would use this technology against you.

  3. Just flash it...or maybe street theatre by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Don't get so complicated. Just lift your shirt and flash the google van. (what the heck, even if you're a female...do it! :-)

    Or do some street theatre... I suggest zombies with guns would be real cool. (ob slashdot: or dress up as sharks with frikken lasers)

  4. Re:very cool - and a bit naughty I guess... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... 'cause I think the partially nude woman in the car at the back of the scene was a bit unnecessary

    Don't forget to look up. The shot of the people screwing on the balcony is priceless.

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  5. Dumb question by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How do people know when the Google car will be scheduled to assimilate their neighborhood? Is there some web site that shows the schedule?

  6. Kelso's Corner? by nschubach · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just curious...

    Why was a blog that just did a copy/paste of a Washington Post article that was in the summary linked to in the summary? Isn't that a bit redundant or were the owners of the blog looking to get hits?

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  7. Sampsonia with a P by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My jaw dropped when I saw this article. I lived on Sampsonia Drive nine years ago, which is incredible, because it's one of the shortest little streets in Pittsburgh.

    I'm amazed that there is a custom Slashdot spelling even for such a tiny little one-way street in Pittsburgh. You remove the "p" from the middle. What do you put it? I guess you can just stick it behind a colon, like this :P

    My girlfriend and I were paying a rent of $400/month to live on this street. It's in a really poor part of the North Side of Pittsburgh. We were the only white people in the neighborhood I think, but even though we stuck out a little, this was the nicest neighborhood I ever lived in. Everyone was really pleasant; it's a fun little place. I'm totally not surprised that they would arrange something like this there. Plus, $400. That was sweet even back then.

    Here are some 8-9 year old pictures of it:
    A pretty sunset where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
    Facing eastward with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
    Facing westward
    Facing eastward again.

    And BTW this wasn't the first time I've looked at the Google Maps street view on Sampsonia. These people weren't there last time.