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Interesting photos from Google Street View
- pitdesi 16y agoAt Sampsonia way in Pittsburgh, they staged a bunch of interesting scenes - fun stuff! http://www.streetwithaview.com/ http://www.streetwithaview.com/
- robcollier 16y agoSo, what do we reckon? Yeti? lol http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2634959651/1/tumblr_lenaaq6CJv1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2634959651/1/tumblr_lenaaq6CJv1...
- jhi247 16y agowhoever chose the pics has a fascination with prostitutes
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoAnd segways. But at least in the ones I saw, never together.
- csl 16y agoThe man behind the montage has written an interesting essay about it, providing background information on the project. The images seem to be real. http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view/ http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-...
- petenixey 16y agoThis is like a photographic implementation of a thousand rooms with a thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters. Some real masterpieces.
- dmlorenzetti 16y agoMy co-worker calls this "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while."
- borism 16y agowell, Google Street Car won one of last years' World Press Photo Awards :) Infinite Monkey Theorem - QED!
- sssparkkk 16y agoDammit, I allowed myself to work through the list as it seemed to only take a minute. It took me a little longer to notice the list just kept on growing as I progressed.
- pyre 16y agoIt's fully-loaded for me, and Chromium says there are 170 <img> tags.
- kingsley_20 16y agoI wish the pictures linked to google maps.
- fedd 16y agothis could offend the depicted neighbourhoods or people. or nations...
- iron_ball 16y agoMaybe, but it's a direct snapshot of reality; there's not even any special framing, just selection bias.
- al_james 16y agoI think many of them are no longer on google maps, particularly in areas where they retake the photos quite often.
- hartror 16y agoHmm I wonder if Google archives the old images?! It would shock and sadden me if they didn't given they will produce quite a fantastic scholarly record in 50->100 years time. And given the growth in storage tech the cost of storing the old data sets will only get cheaper.
- al_james 16y agoYes. That would be awesome indeed.
- relix 16y agoSome photos are unique due to their location though, so it'd be cool if we could see where exactly they were taken.
- al_james 16y agoYes, it would be cool to link through to the location even if the image is not there...
- pyre 16y agoWayne & Garth? http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604823569/1/tumblr_l2j7f1fGXv1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604823569/1/tumblr_l2j7f1fGXv1q... What's up with the glitches? http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602808976/1/tumblr_l2hy4noyIh1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602808976/1/tumblr_l2hy4noyIh1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2514627600/1/tumblr_le7c01dQBv1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2514627600/1/tumblr_le7c01dQBv1... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604710840/1/tumblr_l2j5aqOlYc1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604710840/1/tumblr_l2j5aqOlYc1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602895911/1/tumblr_l2hzv1Iy6O1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602895911/1/tumblr_l2hzv1Iy6O1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604809388/1/tumblr_l2j75fjOiJ1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604809388/1/tumblr_l2j75fjOiJ1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604756995/1/tumblr_l2j65tODrJ1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604756995/1/tumblr_l2j65tODrJ1q...
- barrkel 16y agoPrevious discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904957 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904957
- JonnieCache 16y agoI'm a big fan of the ones when it goes wrong. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/giant_pliers/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/giant_pliers/ How do people think those pliers found their way into that picture? I like to think they were accidentally left on the roof of the car but that doesn't really make sense.
- qeorge 16y agoCheck out the OP, its got an interactive version: http://www.streetviewfun.com/2010/gods-pliers/ http://www.streetviewfun.com/2010/gods-pliers/ Possibly the best thing I've seen today. Thanks!
- InclinedPlane 16y agoJust a tiny reminder that beauty, ugliness, comedy, and tragedy are ordinary, everyday occurrences in the world.
- wazoox 16y agoIt misses the one with me and my neighbour :) http://i.imgur.com/vRdaU.png http://i.imgur.com/vRdaU.png
- maxklein 16y agoIt seems to me good photography is less about technical skill and more about curation skill.
- hartror 16y agoI have a couple of pro photography friends who lament the advent of consumer digital photography. The combination of photoshop and free shots means less people are making the effort to learn the art and science behind good photos.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoI have to disagree. By my observation a lot more people are more interested in photography than there have been, due to high quality digital photography equipment at reasonable costs. And while some of them are very much "spam the shutter and see what pans out" talentless hacks, quite a few of them take the time to hone and expand their skills (behind the lens and in the "darkroom"). On the whole I think this leads to the creation of a greater number of talented and skilled photographers, though of course it also balloons the numbers of untalented photographers as well.
- eftpotrm 16y agoI'm with you. I loved and was fascinated by photography from a young age, but it was intimidatingly slow and expensive to experiment on film. Going digital let me do what I'd wanted to for years, the hobby ballooned and my skills went through the roof.
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- lwhi 16y agoPhotography involves capturing a moment or period of time, visually. Technical skill can affect the way that moment is represented - but there'll always be an element of serendipity involved in taking a good shot. Even so, this doesn't detract from the fact that someone who has invested time in the art of photography is going to be able to take more interesting and more notable photographs. I.e. The ratio of interesting:non-interesting shots, will be larger.
- ck2 16y agoI think I see the TARDIS materializing in one of those, lol. What's with the photos of the animal parks, can't be the Google car that's taking all those? The wild pony ones are the most weird to me, just ponies wandering around eh?
- JonnieCache 16y agoIn the New Forest (down in the south west of the UK) there are ponies, horses, sheep and more wandering freely. They are used to cars (I guess they think that they are just other animals that use the road,) and so they will not move. Several times we have had to stop, jump out of the car and physically push ponies off the road. Fun times. It has been Common Land, with citizens rights of usage enshrined in law, since 1698. It is sadly one of the only remaining pieces of such land we have left. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/New_forest#Common_rights https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/New_forest#Co...
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- _Mark 16y agoI still think the most interesting / scary Street view was when the Street view van was followed by kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido. http://boingboing.net/2009/08/31/did-google-street-vi.html http://boingboing.net/2009/08/31/did-google-street-vi.html
- notahacker 16y agoHmmm... most of the identifiably British photos seem to involve kids giving the Google car the middle finger. What does that say about us?
- acangiano 16y agoIt says that you have a significant enough population of so called "chavs". And it's not just Britain. The kids in America were more or less the same. Lots of built-up anger in both cases. Looking at many of these pictures is a reminder that poverty is akin to a disease.
- BasDirks 16y agoThat stereotype is inadequate. Maybe we ought to ask why Google is getting the finger?
- fedd 16y agoyou see a google car approaching and start to think quickly, what to do? how to express yourself? and i think even a total nerdy 'high achiever' may come up with just showing his ass! :)))
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoFrom the photo where the kids are hiding their face, I'd guess there's a better chance that they think it's the police or some other government department photographing them than it being an anti-Google sentiment. I suppose though it may depend on how the car/vehicle itself is branded.
- elai 16y agoThere is a total of 3 finger photos.
- TheNewAndy 16y agoThis is an interesting one I found: http://www.ultra-premium.com/b/random/street-view-car.html http://www.ultra-premium.com/b/random/street-view-car.html Unfortunately they have taken it down now, so although the link works, it leads to a location nearby, instead of the screenshot I have.
- BasDirks 16y agoapparently, hoes like umbrellas. seriously speaking, this collection is better than what most galleries have to offer.
- olalonde 16y agohttp://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604739779/1/tumblr_l2j5udUdfM1qzun8o http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604739779/1/tumblr_l2j5udUdfM1q... looks like a shot of Vertigo.
- yread 16y agoI like how even the elephant has a blurred face (is it called face?)
- bane 16y agoAt first I thought these were original photos taken to look like something from the Street View cars. The people looked strangely staged. I was a little surprised to find out they were authentic. The staged aesthetic of the photos is really something interesting and unique, almost voyeuristic in some sense. This comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271247 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271247 ) linked to a great writeup that really captured the feelings I had looking at many of them.