Google Earth and Australian alphabet soup
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
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What do you do when you’ve got spare time on your hands?
When the amount of spare time in question is six months and you live in Australia, the answer may well involve an intricate project focused on the alphabet and Google Earth.
Yes, you read that correctly. A 30-something graphic designer from down under spent half a year searching out Google Earth images with the aim of creating a montage of the pics that doubles as the alphabet.
“I found them exactly as you think I might have. Slowly moving from page to page over the maps and visually scanning,” said Rhett Dashwood, the man behind the slightly bizarre but very pretty project, in an interview with the Telegraph.
“I put some simple restrictions on my project, like sticking to my home state of Victoria and not manipulating (rotating or Photoshopping) the images in any way. There were no short cuts to finding them, but I did sense patterns emerging the further I searched which helped to guide how long I spent looking in particular areas.”
It’s all a little pointless, but quite stunning nonetheless don’t you think?
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