Oh my god. I have some friends who must never see that video.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Florida's outrageous color palette has gotten way out of hand.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
That's a cool site, Je55. Check out the Heartland.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
That reminds me, I need to see if my friend has a J I can bum.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
That is really cool, PP.
Do You Want To?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Why have I never noticed the aeroplane in Russell Squre before?
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
it only showed up a month or two ago.
― ledge, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's flying pretty low for such an urban area, right?
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
It is not flying, it has no shadow.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think you can tell how high it is? only how much higher the camera is (twice as high according to my calculations). typical approach height over london might be 2-4000 feet tho.
― ledge, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
er not feet, metres. i think.
you wouldn't see the shadow because of the height. not in the same frame anyway.
― jed_, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't even thinking right when I said that. Of course, the plane would appear larger in relation to how close it was to the camera, not the other way around.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Ned T Rifle found another one over Tottenham.
http://t.co/Ttidxfv
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
There's something about these I find unsettling to look at, like the thread of shipwreck photos.
― oppet, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
That's one big piano to the left of the Tottenham plane as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 August 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Old news, but you ain't trippin.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 8 August 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.whatwasthere.com/
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
That is so awesome!
― Je55e, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes I like to pick out random cross streets in New Orleans and "drive around." 1604 St. Thomas Street, down in the warehouses near the river, features a burned out, gutted car.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/1604.jpg
― Hawaiian mime montage (Dan Peterson), Monday, 30 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I used to live on St. Thomas! It was much nicer where I lived (Irish Channel). So weird to go for a run near the levee and see a ship towering way above you.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
New Orleans and Detroit are two depressing cities to explore randomly on Google Street View.
― pplains, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
i've been doing this in Ciudad Juarez
― bulge renaissance (+ +), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yikes....
I don't find NOLA that depressing overall. There are plenty of blighted areas (and the Lower 9th Ward, obviously), but it's deceptive b/c even totally livable and even desirable areas look ramshackle compared to other cities.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
It's just crazy that even in 2011, you get photos like this one of NOLA.
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeh, you're right. It is pretty heartbreaking. I was there about a year ago and along I-10 on the edges of town, there were still several huge apartment complexes (the kind of generic sprawling ones with dozens of 2-4 story buildings) that stood empty and untouched from the day Katrina came through. It's some zombie apocalypse looking stuff :(
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't find the complexes on Street View, but they're like these, but wrecked and falling apart with no one to even demolish them.
http://g.mnp0.com/dimg/2115260/460x345/2115260.JPG
It's surreal, and it's got to take its toll on people who see them every day. I was only there for 6 months, but even that made me feel *off* - too dramatic to call it "crazy," but not just right.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
THERE I AM DEPRESSED ARE YOU HAPPY??
:)
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was looking at SW Detroit, actually seemed kind of nice! Leafy streets with single-family houses that were a little weathered but not run-down or anything. Looked at Zillow and all these houses are valued at $25K each.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/detroit.jpg
Yep, Detroit is depressing as fuck.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
You can drop the little orange man into any residential neighborhood of Detroit proper and likely see something like that on any block.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I know, there was just something about this particular view that captured my imagination.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah definitely. Some are surely sadder looking than others.
How does someone abandon a castle.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I would love my very own midwestern castle.
― kate78, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
however, I'm not going to Detroit to get it.
― kate78, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Midwestern Castle, you say?
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
That's actually a pretty beautiful corner in jvc's pic.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
I went to high school in Charlevoix, MI where this thing is located
http://i.imgur.com/aEz54.jpg
Besides weddings and parties, they hosted rock concerts. I once parked on a hill near it and listened to Ratt and Ugly Kid Joe. Pretty sure they were playing the same night? But I could be merging memories to save mental bandwidth.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
Welcome to Miami Beach
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Found this today while "driving around" the upper ninth ward in New Orleans. It's the Club Desire, an early showcase for Fats Domino.
http://prestonlauterbach.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/clubdesire-1.jpg
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
cool find, dp
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3056/3078278579_13712c8943.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/5years_later.html#6
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, that interior shot is crazy. Here's info.
http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/10/club-desire-threatened.html
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing much about this one. Patton Oswalt tweeted about an L.A. 7-11 last week and I found this dude whizzing past it.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4932/screenshot20120507at319.png
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
andorra, croatia and chile now viewable on GMSV
i get so excited when they add new places!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
speaking of which, this is really cool!:http://gawker.com/5946727/googles-underwater-street-view-will-show-you-the-way-to-fish-clubs-mermaid-graveyards-whale-parks-etc
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome to Namie, a Japanese city that has been quarantined since the 2011 tsunami.
20,000 people have yet to return to their homes. Google Street View gives those people a tour of the city's current state.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
This is kind of weird - Google Streetview is usually so good about blurring faces. I've even seen artwork on signs blurred because the mapping thought it was a real face.
But, on the one street in America where you probably would demand to have your face blurred, GSV has been leaving everything out in the open.
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102818AM_zps7a234729.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102756AM_zpsf895bafa.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102805AM_zps72853b48.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102029AM_zpsbc133e92.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102123AM_zpse79beff4.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102103AM_zps4d63c04f.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101759AM_zps2634f544.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101738AM_zps84bd0361.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102421AM_zps86dd2d30.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101812AM_zpsaf476e92.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101101AM_zpsebcaf821.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at100817AM_zps44bf4fea.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101644AM_zpsf6455261.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101617AM_zpsbfe6df44.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link