Ever wish you knew exactaly when those google map cars were going to be driving down your street so you could run outside in a yeti costume while juggling a lamp, a bottle of katsup and a hard-boild egg?
Well, that migh jsut be my vision. But check out the Street With a View project out of CMU:
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.
Check out this video where the artist talks a bit about how it all went down: