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Putting On a Show For the Google Streetview Camera
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."
...that means that you are gay.
1. Finish Arts degree
2. Wait for google Street view van
3. ??
4. Profit
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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... 'cause I think the partially nude woman in the car at the back of the scene was a bit unnecessary
not being a prude or anything but kids could be viewing it
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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.
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)
This is slashdotted, maybe we could have the link in google maps directly ?
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This will really put Shelbyville on the map!
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I hope it isn't. Or at least have it an option.
It would ruin the feeling of wandering around streets and getting an idea of somewhere.
Sort of defeats the point of the system.
if *everyone* now dresses up their streets as other streets when the google street view car arrives then google will show it all wrong and Washington will look like Moscow and Moscow will look like London and we can all have a laugh and we can go to sleep at night feeling we've done something useful.
Can't find any zombies... not interested. This is Pittsburgh after all!
How do people know when the Google car will be scheduled to assimilate their neighborhood? Is there some web site that shows the schedule?
I was sort of expecting more, but kind of neat since I don't usually use street view. For a direct link of the street view (just go west): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sampsonia+Way+Pittsburgh&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=a5WRSaDMN4qhtwe_8ojZCw&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.457093,-80.010843&panoid=KZ4VB6PWohXbrKaJNdNEPg&cbp=12,273.6054235095123,,0,5
One of the first things I noticed in this scene, is the face blurring which is supposed to protect privacy, does not work. It's obvious that it's in use, there are a few faces blurred. But the majority of them are clearly visible.
"Nothing to see here. Move along."
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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?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=googleplex&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&ei=N6uRSdjJApjAtgfT6oDYCw&cd=2&ll=37.421751,-122.083758&spn=0,359.996513&t=h&z=18
To get your picture on the web.
The title of this story could have just as easily been: Google street view camera car disrupts local marching band practice in Pittsburgh. That is to say, I really wasn't impressed by their show of creativity and 'art'. Bah humbug.
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.
but then my new Google-car-ad-spamming business proposal would be dead from the start. There's an awful lot of sandwichmen I have to pay to be in the right spot at the right time.
The main article is slashdotted but the Washington Post article suggested googling "Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh" and I don't see anything artsy. I did find two guys having a sword fight at the corner of Sampsonia Way and Federal St. though...
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My favorite streetview scene would be this picture of my friend's car Sharky. This link brought to you by sharky, driving down the property value of its neighborhood since 2006.
What's with the missing section halfway down the street, after the garage band?
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fixed:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=504+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+PA,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.095668,78.398437&ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=40.456949,-80.011593&panoid=C4I-QLkZJoT1SHXslK5f7Q&cbp=12,137.1463727456883,,1,14.737390683235331&ll=40.456973,-80.011475&spn=0,359.980774&z=16&iwloc=addr