Google Streetview Hyperlapse
Vimeo Direktlapse, via Interweb3000
Tolles Spielzeug von Teehan+Lax Labs, ein DIY-Timelapse-Dingsbums mit Fixpunkten für die Kamera per Google Streetview. Den Sourcecode gibt’s auf Github, damit kann man dann so schöne Videos machen, wie das obige.
Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest – has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.
The site settings are purposely low (like having a maximum of 60 frames per animation) for greater accessibility. However, all the source code is available on Github (including examples and documentation) so developers can play with higher frame rates, better image quality, and more complicated camera movements.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
ASCII Street View
Getting it on, in the Shop, on Google Streetview
Am Wochenende auf Google Streetview gefunden: Zwei Nackedeis beim Ramtamtam in der Umkleidekabine in einem Laden in Frankreich: Guess where Google Street View caught this couple. Leider wahrscheinlich nur inszeniert, weil: Im selben Laden, halbwegs zur selben Zeit… this happened. (via Daily Dot)
Movie-Scenes in Google Street View
Google Street Scene: „Moments from cinema captured by Google Street View cameras.“ Bild oben: 113 Suttand Place, Lawrence aus Good Fellas. (via Gawker)
Ghosts of Street View
Nettes Projekt namens Street Ghosts von Paolo Cirio, der lebensgroße Fotos von Leuten aus Google StreetView an den Orten anbringt, an denen sie von Google fotografiert wurden: „In the hippest areas for Street Art, life-sized pictures of people found on Google’s Street View are printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were taken.“ Auf GooglePlus findet man alle Bilder aus dem Projekt und wenn Google sein Streetview aktualisiert und die Streetview-Prints erneut fotografiert, explodiert das Internet.
This ready-made artwork simply takes the information amassed by Google as material to be used for art, despite its copyrighted status and private source. As the publicly accessible pictures are of individuals taken without their permission, I reversed the act: I took the pictures of individuals without Google’s permission and posted them on public walls. In doing so, I highlight the viability of this sort of medium as an artistic material ready to comment and shake our society.
The collections of data that Google and similar corporations have become the material of everyday life, yet their source is the personal information of private individuals. By remixing and reusing this material, I artistically explore the boundaries of ownership and exposure of this publicly displayed, privately-held information about our personal lives.
Street Ghosts (via Rebel Art)
Google Streetview goes NASA
Youtube Direktspace, via Open Culture
Auf Googles Streetview kann man seit gestern auf dem Kennedy Space Center der NASA rumlatschen und sich Space Shuttles, die Launchpads, das Kontrollzentrum und ein paar andere Sachen angucken. Sweet! Hier die Links zu den einzelnen Vehikeln und Orten:
The Space Shuttle Launch Pad, The Top of the Gigantic Launch Pad, The Vehicle Assembly Building , Launch Firing Room #4, The Shuttle’s Main Engines, The Saturn V Rocket, The Atlantis Orbiter, The Endeavour Orbiter
For fifty years, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been the launch point for a generation of space technology and exploration. Countless enthusiasts (including this one) grew up longing to see a space shuttle up close and walk in the paths of astronauts. Today, a collaboration between NASA and Street View is enabling people around the world to take a trip to the doorway to outer space, and see Kennedy as it transitions into a multipurpose launch complex for the next 50 years of space innovation. This location is our largest special collection of Street View imagery to date, totaling 6,000 panoramic views of the facilities, and expanding our mission to document the world’s most amazing places.
ASCII Street View
Peter Nitsch hat eine ASCII-Version von Googles Street View programmiert. Bei mir läuft das nicht, aber mein WebGL ist auch irgendwie suboptimal. (via Gizmodo)
Google Streetview Cannonball Run
(Youtube Direktview, via Futurismic)
Zwei Jungs haben sich für Googles Demoslam-Contest Ende letzten Jahres fünf Tage am Stück per Streetview von San Francisco nach New York geklickt. Insane!
