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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."
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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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.
I hate to break this to you; but most children have logged hundreds of hours with partially nude women before they hit kindergarden. Somehow, only a few of them grow up to be serial killers.
What's wrong with kids seeing partially nude women? Most kids have seen partially nude women regularly when they were infants, and nearly everybody has seen a vagina up close once, and I mean really up close.
It's not Slashdotted, but here's a link anyway.
... '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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It's teh internets. I'm afraid they have already seen far worse.
By "public art", I was expecting more gaping anii.
Although one can argue that exposing kids to sex scenes can be harmful to them, (partially, even) nudity does not equals automatically to sex, you know...
Geez, don't remind me! My four month old is probably at home at this moment with my topless wife!
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
It's a back-alley in Pittsburgh. Trust me, the pictures are better with the band/marathon/garage scientists/etc.
This guy's the limit!
Geez, don't remind me! My four month old is probably at home at this moment with my topless wife!
That's it. I'm calling child protective services. It's clear that your wife is not fit to be a mother.
This guy's the limit!
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.
My four month old is probably at home at this moment with my topless wife!
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Pictures are also important.
Can't find any zombies... not interested. This is Pittsburgh after all!
Or he has an eye on his tongue.
How do people know when the Google car will be scheduled to assimilate their neighborhood? Is there some web site that shows the schedule?
Yes, I know it's huge but it's the only way I know how to do it.
http://tinyurl.com/
God help the meta-moderator that comes across this post. : p
This guy's the limit!
Somehow, only a few of them grow up to be serial killers.
Pretty sure that if you study the matter, the time spent around partially nude people is inversely proportional to your propensity to shoot up a school-yard later in life.
I think that's because this entire project was all arranged with google. Some people must have signed a release or opted out of facial censorship. When I usually use streetview all of the faces I see are censored.
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
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.
Hummm... I don't see it...
I think you are confusing "public art" and "pubic art".
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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.