Toastkitten: The view from here

April 12, 2005

The view from here

As I was catching up on the blogosphere this morning, gripping my coffee mug ever so tightly, I saw MAN's entry on aerial photography and satellite mapping. This got me to thinking about, well, aerial photography and satellite mapping. (Moving kind of slow today kids, so bear with me) Anyway, a good friend of mine, who is way more tech savvy than I am, told me a long time ago how you could look up any location and get super cool aerial images online. At the time I was too busy to check it out. But this morning (while I should have been working) I had big fun looking at some of my old haunts from thousands of feet in the air. Try it yourself! It's pretty cool: Google Maps

Tyler connects google maps, WWII, the work of Edward Steichen, The New Topographics crew, ideas for future exhibitions AND recent acquisitions by the Getty's DOP - He's a smart guy. I, on the other hand, am not coherent enough to write anything all that meaningful today. I'm just gonna to give you some links. Make of them what you will...

E.R.'s work (love his stuff)

Map of The Human Heart
(an uneven film w/some really beautiful images- lots of maps, planes and photographs)
Edward Steichen take on the world c. 1955 (it's a small world after all, according to him)

Posted by lk at April 12, 2005 12:14 PM

Comments

I was thinking about looking for old maps (early 20th C) of LA, and new maps from Terra server to see if I can find some of the old farm homesteads. I drove around the valley one day (Panorama City) and found a few--they were really F'N cool.

Posted by: elizabeth at April 18, 2005 09:20 PM

Yup. You're right, Powers of Ten would have put you over the top in smarty pants points... Espresso and single-malt scotch, and I thought I was bad ;-)

Posted by: lk at April 13, 2005 07:24 AM

LOL thanks but... not smart. It's just what mixing regular doses of espresso and single-malt scotch do to a human.

I'll agree on Ruscha's attempts to figure out the LA landscape after having been exposed to the midwest.... but if I'd been REALLY smart, I'd have included the Eames' Powers of Ten in that post.

Posted by: Tyler Green at April 12, 2005 09:04 PM