STREET VIEW

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.

THE SUN

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FUTURE SHOCK

THE COLORS OF INFINITY: ARTHUR C CLARKE

THE OBSCENITY OF THE JUNGLE - WERNER HERZOG

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a 17 mile long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, begins its first particle beam tests this month. The first particle collisions will happen before the end of the year. The Big Picture shows us various stages of completion.

L'Inconnue de la Seine

The unknown girl from the river Seine
In the early 20th century, the unidentified body of a young girl was pulled from the River Seine in Paris. An employee of the morgue was so entranced by the young girl’s ethereal smile that he made a plaster death mask of her. Eternally capturing her blissful appearance.

Generations later, the Girl from the River Seine would be rediscovered when Asmund S. Laerdal began the development of a realistic and effective training aid to teach mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He believed that if such a manikin was life-sized and extremely realistic in appearance, students would be better motivated to learn this lifesaving procedure. Moved by the story of the girl so tragically taken by early death, he fashioned her mask for the face of his new resuscitation training manikin, Resusci Anne

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STINGRAY MIGRATION (FLORIDA KEYS)

JANTAR MANTAR

The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments on an massive scale, built by Jai Singh II at his then new capital of Jaipur between 1727 and 1733. The observatory consists of fourteen major geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars in their orbits, ascertaining the declinations of planets, and determining the celestial altitudes.