1] Google Galleries
Teaming up with some of the world’s most famous galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London, Google has used their street view technology to take you on virtual tours.
The company says it will “enable people to discover and view 1,061 artworks online in extraordinary detail”. Visitors to googleartproject.com can zoom in to more than 1,000 works and see details that would be hard to make out in a gallery itself. Dr Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery, said that “Viewers will see details and explore the painting in a way that hasn’t been possible before.” He added that it would let “institutions work in partnership to reach out globally to new audiences”.
2] Red Bull Street Art View
With the buzz of Google Art Project that invites web users to explore galleries virtually online, http://streetartview.com/aims to take people on a virtual journey along city blocks in a number of cities.
The enterprise, created by agency Loducca (Sao Paulo), is a gallery of graffiti works by both renowned and emerging graffiti artists. Users are encouraged to enrich the collection by submitting new street art pieces on the list (to date, only works on the street of the USA, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and a couple of other areas can be added). The procedure is simple; find the graffiti in the city with the Street View icon, choose the best angle to view it, and then click the submit button.
3] On Piste
Not content with getting you close to great works of art, Google street view also intends to bring the mountainside to life on your laptop. Zermatt ski resort, Switzerland has recently been chosen as the first European outing for the special panoramic capturing snowmobile.
First tried out in Whistler, Canada the snowmobile will map out the runs in the resort and upload them to street view. Zermatt was chosen amongst 30 other resorts, and received 2,800 votes. Zermatt Tourism thinks the new service will be a useful addition to the existing webcams.“Our visitors who are already familiar with the pistes can enjoy them even when they aren’t holidaying here, and potential visitors can see what they are like,” said Zweifel Matthias Meyer, spokesman for Google Switzerland, enthused about the winning destination in a press release.
Thank you Mr Bilson; hope you’re enjoying your placement time here at good ole’ Republic getting stuck into a bit of Planning, Strategy, IA and Measuring & EvaluationJ
