Google Gargle

World Series of Tubing

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:42:00 +0000

Yet more Augmented Reality bandwagonism, only this time it's cool because it involves YouTube:

Google Earth Alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:51:00 +0000

Picture researcher Rachel Young found all 26 letters of the alphabet on Google Maps, in just 15 hours.

Click here for the complete A to Z.

Next, I'd like her to tackle the Chinese alphabet.

Hong Kong in Pixels

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:54:00 +0000

Here's a shiny thing. Hong Kong as pixel art, on a Google Map. Kind of. Personally, I think this is makes Hong Kong look nicer than it actually is.

One Man Band 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:37:00 +0000

You know those one-man bands you used to see, who played about four instruments at the same time? Well move over old-timers, your 16 instrument e-nemesis is here.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative YouTube music and spoken word project, conceived by Darren Solomon. Very nice.

YouTube Addict

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:20:00 +0000

Ignacio Pilotto has created a way to turn your boring old 52" high-definition flatscreen TV into a much sexier YouTube window.

Googling Yourself

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Here's some more Googling from The Vacationeers.

The first one is about masturbation. Yes indeed. Here's the thing... Googling yourself sounds a bit rude. Do you see?

This one is a little freaky:

And I've saved the best for last:

Let Me Google That For You

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:28:00 +0000

Funny. Check out Let Me Google That For You.

Streetview in real streets

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:59:00 +0000

Ever thought about making your photos look like they're in Google Streetview? I'm sure we all have at some point. Well, too late. It's been done.

Cable Art

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:18:00 +0000

This is an art project by Riley Harmin.

Not much else to say, really.

Go Ogle

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:08:00 +0000

The series Go Ogle by photographer Meggan Gould takes the first 100 responses to a Google image search, then overlays those 100 images into a single photographic "average."

So this, as I'm sure you don't need me to tell you, is the Leaning Tower of Pisa:

Interesting project. The same effect can be achieved by going to Pisa and drinking the local grappa.

One Trillion Dollars

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:15:00 +0000

It wasn't long ago that the number 'trillion' was considered made up. You know, like gazillion. Well, what with all this economic kerfuffle going on, it has been brought to our attention as a real number after all.

In fact, I get confronted with the term 'trillion' every time I turn on the TV. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard it recently, I'd have enough to pay off the world's debts and thus no longer be confronted with the term 'trillion' every time I turn on the TV.

Anyway, it's no longer an unimaginably large number. You don't even need to imagine it, because here's a site that shows what a trillion dollars looks like (using Google Sketchup).

That's a person in the bottom left corner. This is quite an easy scene for Zimbabweans to imagine. This is what it looks like every time they buy a pint of milk.

Where on Earth is James Bond?

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:56:00 +0000

Most of us visit other parts of the world to laugh at the locals. Not so for Bond. James Bond. He visits other parts of the world to kill the locals. Now you can explore all the places he had a license to do so, on Google Earth.

Thematic Maps

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:20:00 +0000

Bjørn Sandvik has been creating some pretty shiny thematic maps stuff, based on Google Earth:

And here's a presentation on it:

Using KML for Thematic Mapping

View more presentations from Bjorn Sandvik.

Alice Through The YouTube Glass

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:22:00 +0000

Here's a pointlessly wonderful YouTube thing.

This is an Alice in Wonderland version (because Alice in Wonderland needs more kaleidoscopic surreality, right?), but you can create your own here.

YouCube

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:13:00 +0000

Consider, if you will, the cube. Loved by Hungarian puzzle makers, sugar companies, office space designers and Picasso. We all love cubes. They would feature in most peoples' lists of their top 3 polyhedra.

Now we have YouCube, to delight right-angle lovers everywhere.

Fruit porn

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:57:00 +0000

Here's another use of YouTube interactivity, with annotations. This time, though, it's fruit porn.

Unlike most fruit porn you will have seen, this seems to avoid jokes about melons, plums, nice pears (doesn't work so well written), bananas and 'how do ya like them apples'. A better class of skin flick.

YouTube Aquarium

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:38:00 +0000

I'm scared of whales. Seriously. It's a real thing. It's called cetaphobia. Don't laugh.

So I can't bear to look at this use of YouTube.

Shame, because people tell me it's amazing.

Nine Inch Nails

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:50:00 +0000

Here's an interesting Google Earth App for the iPhone, if you're a fan of Nine Inch Nails (or even if you're not):

NIN: Access iPhone app walkthrough with Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan, and special guest Kevin Rose from Nine Inch Nails on Vimeo.

(best bit is about 5 mins in)

Death of a pixel

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:06:00 +0000

The death of one of your own is a devastating thing to experience. Especially when it's one so small.

The Dutch artist Helmut Smits lifted a piece of grass, which represents the size of one dead pixel when viewed on Google Earth.

Spreadsheets Can Be Fun. Seriously.

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:32:00 +0000

Collaborative spreadsheet art, using Google Docs.

Come on, admit it, we all wanted to be collaborative spreadsheets artists when we were kids.

Google Landscapes

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:24:00 +0000

This is an art project from Fillipo Minelli. More here. But you get the idea.

Old Skool Google Slides

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:22:00 +0000

Kevin Van Aelst for The New York Times

Kutiman

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:13:00 +0000

Very cool YouTube mash.

Mapping the airways

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Two million flights pass through New York's airspace each year. Artist Aaron Koblin used images from his piece, Flight Patterns, to create a Google map of US air traffic over a 24-hour period. Pretty cool. So, a bit like the airline route maps in the back of inflight magazines, only with this you're not being sold Toblerone or a toy aeroplane on a stand.

Giant Markers

noreply@blogger.com (Stuart) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:43:00 +0000

Here's a Google Maps art thing from our friend Aram (see post below), up to his old tricks. Very old, in this case. From 2006. Bleeding-edge blogging at its bloodiest.