Copyrights (2011- Ongoing) is a project by Phil Thompson:
“The Google Art Project contains several paintings which have had a blur filter applied to them so as to make them unrecognisable. Google explain this decison stating that they were, ‘required to be blurred by the museums for reasons pertaining to copyrights.’ After collecting all of these images by taking screenshots and cropping out the blurred images, they were emailed to oil painting reproduction companies in China (chosen for its ...

read post »

Escape the Map, a Google Streetview interactive short sci-fi film made by Mercedes-Benz. Impressive…

read post »

Postcards from Google Earth, by Clement Valla:
‘The images are screenshots from Google Earth with basic color adjustments and cropping. I am collecting these new typologies as a means of conservation – as Google Earth improves its 3D models, its terrain, and its satellite imagery, these strange, surrealist depictions of our built environment and its relation to the natural landscape will disappear in favor of better illusionistic imagery. However, I think these strange mappings of the 2-dimensional ...

read post »

High Five, by Niko Princen… [via]

read post »

“The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge.”
[read more on Tate's blog]

read post »

Explore museums with Street View technology…

read post »

Another great video by Marco Cadioli (aka Marco Manray):
“How will be Gloogle Earth without Earth? Over Data is a machinima shot in Google Earth, but the images of the Earth are extinguished, annulled in a white neutral surface. Data, information and icons are the only ones that design, define and create the new landscape.”
[via mbf]

read post »

Download the instructions in a PDF here! (by F.A.T.)

read post »

“It felt more like a ride than a computer program, something between an observation-deck and a glass-walled spaceship. As a result of this totally seamless, immersive experience, we decided to name it the Liquid Galaxy” (Google)
[via techcrunch]

read post »

I saw it coming…

read post »

[via obsessivecompulsive]

read post »