Interesting photos from Google Street View

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by ryannielsen • 15 years ago

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sssparkkk• 15 years ago

Dammit, I allowed myself to work through the list as it seemed to only take a minute.

It took me a little longer to notice the list just kept on growing as I progressed.

pyre2• 15 years ago

It's fully-loaded for me, and Chromium says there are 170 <img> tags.

kingsley_20• 15 years ago

I wish the pictures linked to google maps.

al_james3• 15 years ago

I think many of them are no longer on google maps, particularly in areas where they retake the photos quite often.

hartror2• 15 years ago

Hmm I wonder if Google archives the old images?!

It would shock and sadden me if they didn't given they will produce quite a fantastic scholarly record in 50->100 years time. And given the growth in storage tech the cost of storing the old data sets will only get cheaper.

relix• 15 years ago

Some photos are unique due to their location though, so it'd be cool if we could see where exactly they were taken.

fedd3• 15 years ago

this could offend the depicted neighbourhoods or people. or nations...

iron_ball• 15 years ago

Maybe, but it's a direct snapshot of reality; there's not even any special framing, just selection bias.

pyre2• 15 years ago

Wayne & Garth?

http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604823569/1/tumblr_l2j7f1fGXv1q...

What's up with the glitches?

http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602808976/1/tumblr_l2hy4noyIh1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2514627600/1/tumblr_le7c01dQBv1... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604710840/1/tumblr_l2j5aqOlYc1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/602895911/1/tumblr_l2hzv1Iy6O1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604809388/1/tumblr_l2j75fjOiJ1q... http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604756995/1/tumblr_l2j65tODrJ1q...

rheide• 15 years ago

Those are not glitches in street view. They're glitches in reality.

makmanalp• 15 years ago

The last image looks like some distance mapping data (possibly from a laser sensor or stereo vision camera) that got mixed up with the actual image data.

barrkel• 15 years ago

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1904957

JonnieCache2• 15 years ago

I'm a big fan of the ones when it goes wrong.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/giant_pliers/

How do people think those pliers found their way into that picture? I like to think they were accidentally left on the roof of the car but that doesn't really make sense.

qeorge• 15 years ago

Check out the OP, its got an interactive version:

http://www.streetviewfun.com/2010/gods-pliers/

Possibly the best thing I've seen today. Thanks!

InclinedPlane2• 15 years ago

Just a tiny reminder that beauty, ugliness, comedy, and tragedy are ordinary, everyday occurrences in the world.

fedd3• 15 years ago

to me it seemed that ugliness and tragedy prevail

duck• 15 years ago

It is easy to forget the order of magnitude of all the pictures not shown.

wazoox2• 15 years ago

It misses the one with me and my neighbour :) http://i.imgur.com/vRdaU.png

edw519• 15 years ago

Which one are you? The guy on the ladder looks like he's about to Darwin himself.

wazoox2• 15 years ago

I'm standing outside in socks, with a super-soaker in hand :) it was in August.

maxklein• 15 years ago

It seems to me good photography is less about technical skill and more about curation skill.

hartror2• 15 years ago

I have a couple of pro photography friends who lament the advent of consumer digital photography. The combination of photoshop and free shots means less people are making the effort to learn the art and science behind good photos.

InclinedPlane2• 15 years ago

I have to disagree. By my observation a lot more people are more interested in photography than there have been, due to high quality digital photography equipment at reasonable costs. And while some of them are very much "spam the shutter and see what pans out" talentless hacks, quite a few of them take the time to hone and expand their skills (behind the lens and in the "darkroom"). On the whole I think this leads to the creation of a greater number of talented and skilled photographers, though of course it also balloons the numbers of untalented photographers as well.

lwhi• 15 years ago

Photography involves capturing a moment or period of time, visually.

Technical skill can affect the way that moment is represented - but there'll always be an element of serendipity involved in taking a good shot.

Even so, this doesn't detract from the fact that someone who has invested time in the art of photography is going to be able to take more interesting and more notable photographs. I.e. The ratio of interesting:non-interesting shots, will be larger.

ck2• 15 years ago

I think I see the TARDIS materializing in one of those, lol.

What's with the photos of the animal parks, can't be the Google car that's taking all those?

The wild pony ones are the most weird to me, just ponies wandering around eh?

JonnieCache2• 15 years ago

In the New Forest (down in the south west of the UK) there are ponies, horses, sheep and more wandering freely. They are used to cars (I guess they think that they are just other animals that use the road,) and so they will not move.

Several times we have had to stop, jump out of the car and physically push ponies off the road. Fun times.

It has been Common Land, with citizens rights of usage enshrined in law, since 1698. It is sadly one of the only remaining pieces of such land we have left.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/New_forest#Co...

_Mark• 15 years ago

I still think the most interesting / scary Street view was when the Street view van was followed by kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido.

http://boingboing.net/2009/08/31/did-google-street-vi.html

notahacker• 15 years ago

Hmmm... most of the identifiably British photos seem to involve kids giving the Google car the middle finger. What does that say about us?

acangiano• 15 years ago

It says that you have a significant enough population of so called "chavs". And it's not just Britain. The kids in America were more or less the same. Lots of built-up anger in both cases.

Looking at many of these pictures is a reminder that poverty is akin to a disease.

BasDirks2• 15 years ago

That stereotype is inadequate. Maybe we ought to ask why Google is getting the finger?

elai• 15 years ago

There is a total of 3 finger photos.

TheNewAndy• 15 years ago

This is an interesting one I found:

http://www.ultra-premium.com/b/random/street-view-car.html

Unfortunately they have taken it down now, so although the link works, it leads to a location nearby, instead of the screenshot I have.

BasDirks2• 15 years ago

apparently, hoes like umbrellas.

seriously speaking, this collection is better than what most galleries have to offer.

pitdesi• 15 years ago

At Sampsonia way in Pittsburgh, they staged a bunch of interesting scenes - fun stuff! http://www.streetwithaview.com/

robcollier• 15 years ago

So, what do we reckon? Yeti? lol http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/2634959651/1/tumblr_lenaaq6CJv1...

jhi247• 15 years ago

whoever chose the pics has a fascination with prostitutes

ZeroGravitas2• 15 years ago

And segways.

But at least in the ones I saw, never together.

csl• 15 years ago

The man behind the montage has written an interesting essay about it, providing background information on the project. The images seem to be real.

http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-...

petenixey• 15 years ago

This is like a photographic implementation of a thousand rooms with a thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters. Some real masterpieces.

dmlorenzetti• 15 years ago

My co-worker calls this "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while."

borism• 15 years ago

well, Google Street Car won one of last years' World Press Photo Awards :)

Infinite Monkey Theorem - QED!

olalonde• 15 years ago

http://9-eyes.com/photo/1280/604739779/1/tumblr_l2j5udUdfM1q... looks like a shot of Vertigo.

yread• 15 years ago

I like how even the elephant has a blurred face (is it called face?)

bane• 15 years ago

At first I thought these were original photos taken to look like something from the Street View cars. The people looked strangely staged. I was a little surprised to find out they were authentic.

The staged aesthetic of the photos is really something interesting and unique, almost voyeuristic in some sense.

This comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271247 ) linked to a great writeup that really captured the feelings I had looking at many of them.

Interesting photos from Google Street View

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