Comments on: Google Street View and beautiful people http://danielfarrell.com/blog/archives/2008/03/28/google-street-view-and-beautiful-people/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: David Wolf http://danielfarrell.com/blog/archives/2008/03/28/google-street-view-and-beautiful-people/comment-page-1/#comment-17280 David Wolf Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:42:01 +0000 http://danielfarrell.com/blog/archives/2008/03/28/google-street-view-and-beautiful-people/#comment-17280 That's crazy, you are so cool!!! Who is taking these photos for Google? That’s crazy, you are so cool!!! Who is taking these photos for Google?

]]> By: Harry http://danielfarrell.com/blog/archives/2008/03/28/google-street-view-and-beautiful-people/comment-page-1/#comment-17276 Harry Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:40:17 +0000 http://danielfarrell.com/blog/archives/2008/03/28/google-street-view-and-beautiful-people/#comment-17276 It is a strange and disorienting experience to take the virtual version that follows one of the routes I take from office to house each day. The West Broad and North Robinson Street stretches seem to have been photographed toward dusk, perhaps on a weekend? I don’t see many people out on the sidewalks. The streets are deserted except for a few cars running with their headlights on. I register this emptiness when I’m enjoying my pedestrian pleasures, I guess, how I can saunter along several blocks and not see any one enjoying the bloom of spring on the bosky Fan streets. I am reminded of a blog some visiting Chinese students kept and a theme running through their observations was the lack of people in the streets--but compared to Shanghai, I guess Richmond would seem deserted. Still, using this Google Maps view, I’m reminded of that “Omega Man” film with Heston, or maybe “28 Days Later.” Weird. A bicyclist here on Robinson, a woman talking on her cell phone near Floyd and Robinson, and on the street where I live, nary a soul stirring. Eerie -- kind of like GoogleMaps itself. It is a strange and disorienting experience to take the virtual version that follows one of the routes I take from office to house each day. The West Broad and North Robinson Street stretches seem to have been photographed toward dusk, perhaps on a weekend?

I don’t see many people out on the sidewalks. The streets are deserted except for a few cars running with their headlights on.

I register this emptiness when I’m enjoying my pedestrian pleasures, I guess, how I can saunter along several blocks and not see any one enjoying the bloom of spring on the bosky Fan streets. I am reminded of a blog some visiting Chinese students kept and a theme running through their observations was the lack of people in the streets–but compared to Shanghai, I guess Richmond would seem deserted.

Still, using this Google Maps view, I’m reminded of that “Omega Man” film with Heston, or maybe “28 Days Later.” Weird.

A bicyclist here on Robinson, a woman talking on her cell phone near Floyd and Robinson, and on the street where I live, nary a soul stirring. Eerie — kind of like GoogleMaps itself.

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