Google Street "With a" View

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jamie andrei

Published: April 10, 2009Tags: a view, artist, geek, google, intergration, Maps, nerdy, Sampsonia Way, street, view, with

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This is totally wicked!

Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.

On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way.

Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…

Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.

An incredible cast of real-life characters contributed their time, energy and talents to creating pseudo-street life on Sampsonia Way. Please check out the scene breakdown, the participant page and the video documentation to learn more about the artists, groups and participants that made Street With A View possible.

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Jamie is passionate about people, business and technology. He works at Next Digital one of Australia's big 5 full service digital agencies across a range of SMEs to large ASX listed companies. He is an Account Director with a wealth of experience and enjoys mountain biking, Muay Thai/BJJ, reading, business thinking and technology.

2 Comments

1. re: turn on

   Posted April 16, 2009 at 2:47 AM

   I love the Sampsonia Way concept!

   I wrote about the possibility of staging a Google Street View in Sydney as a branding exercise, particularly for local tourism or festivals. If it gathers enough interest I might see if Google can be convinced to send round the Street View van…
2. jamie andrei

   Posted April 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM

   tx for the comment. a sydney staging would be great. it ads a new dimension to the bland old way things were done.