Spend about 15 minutes on Google Street View and you start to find some cool and odd things. The lurking robot was taken by a Google car – Birmingham Central Library. It’s amazing how well framed the head is…
I found this quirky image after about 20 minutes of virtually driving around Birmingham City Centre. I think it has a certain charm.
Google Street View Spotting
With a little bit of patience you should start spotting people waving, folk going about their daily business and the odd funny composition. If all else fails you can check to see if your car is parked in front of your own house!
Let’s Make It Easy
If you can’t be bothered to find your own cool Street Views then a quick Google Image Search is a good place to start finding interesting and odd things.
Failing that artist Jon Rafman has been scouring Street View – doing all the leg work and posting the cool stuff he has found on this tumblr blog. There’s awesome, scary and lots of folk flipping the bird – all in all a collection well worth trawling through.
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