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Google aims to bring Street View imaging to Galapagos Islands
Google wants to make it easier for you to virtually visit one of the world’s most famous remote animal-watching destinations, and the place that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

On Thursday, the Silicon Valley search engine giant announced it recently sent its Street View Trekker backpack camera system to the Galápagos Islands to capture panoramic images of the region’s sulfur mines, lava tunnels, lush forests and wondrous waters as well as the inimitable wildlife that calls this UNESCO World Heritage Site home.

The photos, which were snapped between May 6 and 17, will be available on Google Maps later this year.

Google Earth Outreach has collaborated with the Charles Darwin Foundation, a non-profit organization located in Galápagos off the coast of Ecuador in South America, whose mission is to preserve the region’s enchanting landscapes and species. (Google)

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James Welling - Glass House (2006-9)

Artist’s statement: 

“When Frank Lloyd Wright visited the Glass House, as Philip Johnson tells it, he was unsure whether he was inside or outside. He said that he didn’t know whether or not to take his hat off. Another quote by Johnson on the house: ‘Nature is the most expensive wallpaper.’ I think the greatest thing about the house is that you’re ‘inside’ once you step on the property. The Glass House is, in truth, a large structure of landscape architecture and a dozen buildings and sculptures.

In 2005, I started making multiple exposures using six filters (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow) for photographs I called ‘hexachromes’. These images recorded vibrantly colored shadows on succulents in my front yard. 

I started shooting the Glass House in 2006 with the same filters I used for ‘hexachromes’, but that technique really depended on motion and shadows to produce multicolored images. Nothing moved over the three days, so I decided to hold the filters in front of the lens, sometimes in pairs. This is how I began to incorporate arbitrary colors into pictures of the Glass House. I went back seven more times over the following three years.

I’ve been using the word filter as a noun, but it’s also a verb. A filter lets some wavelengths of light through and certain kinds of information to seep in. In addition to colored filters, I used clear glass, clear plastic, fogged plastic, pieces of glass that were slightly uneven or tinted, and finally a diffraction filter that breaks light into spectrums. Now I bring everything with me when I shoot, but initially I introduced new filters one by one. When I realized I could make the grass red or make sun flares, splatters, and different types of visual activity in front of this supposedly transparent house, or box, the project became a laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity, and color.”

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Susan Hiller, Witness, 2000. Hundreds of small speakers are suspended from the ceiling, each one playing a personal account of a sighting of a UFO, creating a murmuring soundscape.

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Someone Who Makes You Happy

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

If he feels it, he feels it. #GaryClarkJr #hegotsoul (at Brooklyn Bowl)

Ruin everything I loved about Long Island, starting with the oak trees. Thanks #Sandy. #bitch

Missed these streets #longisland @bryghtboy (at rockville centre)