Google's Mapping Tools Spawn New Breed of Art Projects

michael-wolf A Series of Unfortunate Events The Google Street View car is like the ultimate street photographer, a robo Cartier-Bresson methodically scouring the streets and documenting what it sees. Michael Wolf, for example, uses a camera to photograph scenes from Google Street View open on his computer's browser. Read on for a collection of the most interesting projects with statements from their makers.Wolf's first project with GSV was a compilation of fleeting moments of no particular location: People flipping the bird, actual birds in mid-flight blocking our view, dismembered shadows, a crouched woman urinating behind a car and so on.A former photojournalist, Wolf found many of the scenes in his early series on GSV forums such as Google Sightseeing and GoogleStreetFunny. Without specifying location or knowing the date of the original capture, A Series of Unfortunate Events amplifies Google's own dismantling of time and space.