Go to Google Maps. Look up 8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA, united states
Click street view… then turn to your left, and be ready to see awesomeness!
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.
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Oh, Kate that is so, so cool – and so necessary to disentangle me from the drama of a possible concussion on the Farmers Forum. I’ve been madly refreshing in the hopes of hearing word from the poster (who slipped on the ice while tending to her critters at midnight last night – she saw, she said, not just stars, but fireworks – omg!).
Kate,
Very interesting. I got the sword fight and the ginormous chicken carcass, but nothing else. It’s really great art though!
It does look like the folks had a great time putting those photos together. What did we do for entertainment before we had the Internet?
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