Viewfinder project puts the flickr in Google Earth

I stumbled across the Viewfinder project on artist Michael Naimark's website yesterday.

The project site states: "Our objective is to provide a straightforward procedure for geo-locating photos of any kind, and our approach is to engage a community of users for a certain amount of human help."

Indeed, such ongoing web 2.0 panorama research is promising. I can't wait for this virtual/real hybrid place future...

We Street Partied the Night Obama Won

And then the cops showed up...

Google Earth Street With a View

STREET WITH A VIEW
by artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley

This brings street theater to a whole new paradigm. Google needs to start advertising when they are doing their panoramic street scans so we can think of more fun stuff to help represent our respective neighborhoods.



I especially appreciate their decision to act out urban scenes that would not be totally out of the ordinary, had they not all taken place on one day along a small back alley. Such subtleties truly helps blur their fiction into convincing half-truths.








Most of this post was lovingly borrowed from Ceci Moss's post on Rhizome. THANKS!

Cliff Evans EMPYREAN - paralax internet collage video masterpiece...

Cliff Evans Empyrean showing at The Library through November 22nd.

The Empyrean video installation is a twisted desert landscape of consumerist distraction, sexual gaze, and military-industrial complexity, comprised of a psychologically dense layering of found images from the internet and of cinematic noise.

see trailer below...



EVERYONE MUST SEE THIS MIND WARPING / HYPNOTIC VIDEO INSTALLATION!