Google Earth Art: Please Switch Off the Flash on Your Satellite
Posted by James_Knutila on Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
There has been plenty of Google Street View strangeness and lunacy, but has Google Earth captured anything of interest?
Thanks to artist Molly Dilworth, the answer will soon be yes. Dilworth has been busy covering New York rooftops with mammoth paintings designed to be viewed by Google’s satellites.
She has finished three paintings so far, with more on the way. “The more the better.” Dilworth told the Daily News. “I don’t want to cover the Earth, but I do want to mark territory where something is happening, and to kind of acknowledge this new view that we have.” As long as people keep putting their leftover paint on Craigslist, Dilworth will be covering rooftops with her unique brand of large-scale pointillism.
Google did bring some art into the Earth fold last year, putting works from the Prado Museum in Spain on view in 14,000 million pixels. Others have been finding their own art in the imagery.
Cool your jets, however, because Molly’s paintings are not on Google Earth just yet. Google does not update the satellite imagery very frequently — it will be months or even years before Dilworth’s paintings are on view.
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