Google Street View makes it easy for people looking for directions to find identifiable landmarks using
Google Maps. It also lets you take a virtual walk or drive across any part of the globe that Google has photographed. And plenty of web sites have already popped up that are dedicated to showing interesting, unusual, or funny photographs captured by Google. One artist in Kentucky has found another way to use the service. He paints scenes found on the web using Google Street View.
Bill Guffey has about 3 dozen oil paintings
in his Street View series online, although it sounds like has painted
even more. Some depict rural scenes, while others capture a moment in time in an urban environment. There are pictures from Amsterdam, London, and New York. But Guffey says he hasn't actually visited most pf the places he's painted.
[via
Neatorama]
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