The street view feature on Google Maps has changed the way we map out our drives, investigate neighborhoods surrounding potential homes and schools, and decide where to stay when going on vacation.
But Google Maps is also full of incredibly candid images, and a few not so candid shots people who were prepared for the Google Car's arrival helped create, and the images captured range from scary and bizarre to utterly hilarious.
Rather than hunting down a bunch of odd candids on your own you should peruse this collection of 93 Strange Google Street View Shots and see the world for the colorful place it is.
Six-year-old Spider-Mable took to the streets of Edmonton accompanied by her hero Spider-Man, and together they spoke to police and the mayor to gather clues and track down Andrew, acting like a real life superhero for a day.
Mable has been battling leukemia for two years, and since her treatment is coming to an end the Make-A-Wish Foundation sprang into action to fulfill Mable's wish to be a superhero for a day.
And it all started with this adorable video featuring Edmonton police sergeant Steve Sharpe calling out for Spider-Mable's help.
Jake the dog had been hangin' with his bro Finn the human for years, and they'd gone on some pretty epic adventures together, but Jake missed the butt sniffing cameraderie felt by having a doggie pal. He tried to hang out with that scaredy cat Scooby Doo but Jake got tired of ghosts chasing him everywhere, and Johnny Test's furry friend Dukey made Jake feel dumb because he was always spoutin' off about scientific mumbo jumbo Jake didn't understand. But then he took a trip to another cartoon network time and found the doggie pal of his dreams- Courage the cowardly dog! Jake and Courage quickly became best buds, with Jake helping Courage defeat the forces of darkness and Courage teaching Jake how to be a normal, non-stretchy dog again...
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The Brothers Quay changed the way audiences thought about stop motion animation, mostly because those audiences were totally creeped out by the short films they created!
Of course, creepiness is but one of the many things that make a Brothers Quay film great, and their decidedly avant garde approach to the medium has truly elevated stop motion well beyond the realm of Saturday morning cartoons.
Writer and filmmaker Shade Rupe got to interview the Brothers Quay about their thirty plus years playing with puppets, their cinematic approach to stop motion filmmaking, and Christopher Nolan's short documentary about the Brothers entitled Quay.
The something strange in the neighborhood had gone from demon dogs and giant marshmallow men to mythical beings kids looked for on holidays. First the foursome had to take down that egg laying freak the Easter bunny, who as it turns out breathes fire, and then they tackled a fifty foot tall Uncle Sam who came out all pointing fingers and fireworks. But then the fall season rolled around, and the concentration of mythical creatures grew thanks to the arrival of All Hallow's Eve. The busters knew better than to go chasing ghosts on Halloween, but a particularly large headed being known as the Great Pumpkin demanded their attention. They were making peanuts for the job, but they were glad to be doing something better than sitting around handing out candy!
Add a ghoulishly good mashup to your geeky wardrobe, bring home this The Great Pumpkin Busters t-shirt by Rivrav and scare up some smiles!
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Some people love hitting the links for nine or eighteen holes of golf on a massive green course where they can cart around for hours and leave the hustle and bustle of urban life behind for a bit.
But that can also be boring, and if you want to meet a real fun golfing crowd, the folks who know how to putt past a windmill's whirling blade or bank a shot off a blue whale, then you've gotta go pure putter and hit a mini golf course.
Mini golf courses can be short, crusty and full of rat hotels or they can be a massive and thoroughly thematic putter's paradise, sweeping you away for
Just because you're a scientifically minded individual doesn't mean you can't have some fun with your wardrobe. Whether you're getting dressed to go out on the town or getting ready to do some research in the lab you can't beat the look and comfort of a NeatoShop t-shirt!
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Scientists are working to unravel the secrets of the universe
Have you ever heard a guy claim that a girl tricked him into being attracted to her by wearing makeup?
I definitely have, and aside from the fact that this is one of the most shallow and victim complex-based things a guy can say about a girl, it's also utterly ridiculous.
Kids are becoming more comfortable with, and reliant upon, technological devices in their lives, and as their addiction to smarthphones grows stronger parents keep searching for ways to unplug their kids.
It's good to teach them there are dangerous people online who prey on unsuspecting kids, but thanks to a new set of Snapchat filters parents are bypassing the safety lessons and going straight to making their kids terrified of smartphones.
The Snapchat filter catches the poor kiddos unaware, transforming their cute little faces into ugly, twisted versions. And judging by the actual expressions on their faces these kids might not use a smartphone again until they're old enough to drive!
The Smiths and 8-bit video games coexisted in the 1980s, but they only came together when someone played an arcade game while listening to The Smiths on their Walkman, Morrissey's soulfully froggy voice in their ears while their fingers tapped away on the buttons.
Sadly, the Smiths were never asked to create any digital tracks for arcade games, but their synth creations probably would have sounded alot like these 8-bit masterpieces by Hipster Disco.
This Charming Man has never sounded more charmingm, you definitely get a high score for this radical video Hipster Disco!
They tell you to keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all time knowing riders will disobey because they've been taught that rollercoasters are most fun when your arms are in the air.
But Disney parks have a reputation for being tidy, orderly and accident free, so how do they protect themselves from those rebel riders who refuse to keep their arms inside the car?
They use this crazy looking contraption called the “envelope of protection”, which is covered in small pieces of wood that approximate the farthest points a rider can reach out on all sides.
If any pieces are knocked off during the coaster's run the ride's safety engineers can locate the problem spot and help prevent future limb loss.
Horror filmmakers try to stay in touch with the genre's roots, which is probably for the best because too much experimentation tends to cast a dark shadow upon a tried and true genre like horror.
But sometimes it's fun to see someone go full freakazoid with their short film, creating something that is dark and disturbing even though we're not quite sure why the film is getting under our skin.
Anthophobia is as bizarre as horror shorts come, but filmmaker Valentin Petit's incredibly captivating cinematography sucks you in despite the fact that you'll be thinking "WTF?" the whole time. (Contains mature content)
There are plenty of hack directors, harsh filming locations and hokey scripts waiting to push actors over the edge, cheesy cinema that makes them question why they chose a career in show biz.
Sometimes a young star bites off more than they can chew when they agree to be involved in a project, like when a 36 year old Greta Garbo decided to star in Two-Faced Woman, the film she called "my grave".
The cheesy comedy stars Garbo playing a woman who tries to seduce her husband by pretending to be her own twin sister, and needless to say the critics were not kind.
The role left Greta so embarrassed she never made another movie, and when she was given an honorary Oscar fourteen years later she didn't even show up at the ceremony.
Even a movie industry veteran like Gene Hackman can find themselves involved in a project that is so beneath their talent level it pushes them over the edge.
Welcome To Mooseport is a steaming pile of cinema that closed the curtain on Hackman's movie career, a campy comedy starring Ray Romano that Hackman said he starred in "for the money".
The movie was a total flop and closed the curtains on Hackman's movie career, talk about a fall from grace!
The burger market had dropped dramatically, and those who'd given their lives to selling sizzling beef patties between buns discovered they were up ketchup creek without a paddle. Nobody was hit as hard by this economic cheeseburger crash as the King, who now ruled a kingdom full of burgers he couldn't give away. The King of all burgers was lost, trying to find a new niche and return his fast food kingdom to its former glory, but everywhere he looked it seemed like fried food was doomed. So King came up with a better plan for making lots of cold, hard cheddar- he would steal from the rich and poor and become burger rich again!
Add a tasty new design to your geeky wardrobe, bring home this The Burglar King t-shirt by Kris and watch all your friends try to steal the shirt right off your back!
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Take it from the dude who's got all the guys and gals looking to have him over for dinner- being cheesy is super cool! Pizza Guy proves you shouldn't care when people call you pizza face, or when they say you smell like aged mozarella, because pizza is the Fonzi of foods, meaning it is the absolute coolest! Of course, if you're more of a Kevin Kale kinda kid then maybe you shouldn't take advice from a guy with a slice of pizza for a head, because leafy greens are the lame and greasy pizza goodness is far too radical for you.
Add some cheesy sauciness to your geeky wardrobe with this Be Cool t-shirt by Mykel AD, it's one tasty tee!
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