Jenny Odell Google Maps Art



While I would typically consider scanning the backyards of strangers' houses a bit creepy, Jenny Odell does it for art (and anything done for art is excusable, right?) Odell's Satellite Collections amalgamate images of swimming pools, nuclear cooling towers, and basketball courts found through Google Maps. How many baseball diamonds are there in Manhattan? According to Jenny Odell, 116. Impressive.

Link - via NPR

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I dont really see how this is "Art". Had she made something else from the images as opposed to just copying them and pasting them randomly into a shape then I could see it. This is more like documentation. The only one that has any style at all is the overpasses from Iowa. Pretty week in my opinion.
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At least that one went out with a ban....

Wow. Bad time for a pun, huh? It's like finding a tap dancing fish an hour before the species goes extinct.

That has to be one of those most polite mating rituals though, lol!
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According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7219803.stm 'the frogs had to be rescued from the wild':

'Scientists were forced to remove the remaining frogs from the wild and keep them in captivity.

'Hilary Jeffkins added: "The whole species is now extinct in Panama - this was one of the last remaining populations. Its final wave was in our programme."'

So it's sad, but not as sad as one might imagine from the post.
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