Putting On a Show For the Google Streetview Camera 109
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."
Netculture (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Why this is important (Score:4, Interesting)
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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.
Just flash it...or maybe street theatre (Score:1, Interesting)
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)
Re:very cool - and a bit naughty I guess... (Score:3, Interesting)
... '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.
Dumb question (Score:5, Interesting)
Kelso's Corner? (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
Sampsonia with a P (Score:4, Interesting)
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 [photobucket.com] where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
Facing eastward [photobucket.com] with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
Facing westward [photobucket.com]
Facing eastward [photobucket.com] 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.