This is silly: Gizmodo’s Photoshop contest inviting people to make up things you’ll never see on Google Street View. Above: Kevin Foster’s first-place homage to Blade Runner; as you might expect given the Giz’s readership, science fiction tropes abound. A nice satire on the mania for finding wacky images in Street View, incidentally. Via Infonaut.
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Can somebody PLEASE tell me what is supposed to be funny about this one: http://i.gizmodo.com/photogallery/fakestreetview/1006911868
It seems to look an awful lot like http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.749984,-73.988215&spn=0,359.996454&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.749944,-73.98812&panoid=ANegw3HErNANY07clRK92A&cbp=12,29.413874094483333,,0,-1.5874307758305766
It’s a fake fake, I tell you what.
February 19, 2009 at 1:02 PM