Geoglyphs
>> Monday, 26 October 2009
I've just found this funny tool developed by the Department of Design and Image of the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Fine Arts, that allows you to type short texts with live links to Google Maps that are landscape glyphs. "This online app composes alphabetical glyphs found via Google Maps in order to satisfy our wild and atavic instinct to write text for & ever", they assure. They simply call it Typewriter Machine.
You can even try and fetch alphabetical shapes in the maps: Add new geoglyphs.
See above the message that the machine has composed for me.
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8 comments:
Haha, that is awesome. :) Love it, thanks for sharing!
I'm really glad you like it, thanks for your visit!
That is so cool! Hmmm, I can see some future art ideas cooking here....
Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing these art ideas come true! :)
That was really great - thank you for finding it and sharing it. . . I got the text for BOO! in honor of Halloween.
I know my son will like this when I show him but, senior citizen, total computer illiterate, I doubt I will be very versatile with this!
Fascinating. This is a bit like something I looked into some years ago. The Glastonbury and Kingston zodiacs - the astrological signs of the zodiac outlined on the ground. We lived in Kingston then and walked around some of them. I remember one walk that took us around the perimeter of Chessington Zoo, which is now Chessington World of Adventure.
Thanks for sharing. It's very interesting ^^~
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