The Making of "Street With A View"

Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View.

On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburghs Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more...

Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.

An incredible cast of real-life characters contributed their time, energy and talents to creating pseudo-street life on Sampsonia Way. Please check out the scene breakdown and the participant page to learn more about the artists, groups and participants that made Street with a View possible.

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[neserme]

Yes, you can see that there. Just go to maps google com and search for "Pittsburgh Sampsonia Way".

[SurfinBird1975]

briliant

[HansMaulwurf1988]

I found the Camera filming at 3:31!^^

[sbeer6er]

address is "pittsburgh 406 sampsonia way", but it looks like the marching band part is cut out.

[zonk30zonk]

This was probably the most annoying speaker i've ever heard -.- But the idea & the action itself are awesome, nontheless!

[MissBLives]

Drunkgorilla,

I live on Sampsonia Way and this is an extremely diverse neighborhood. This event was advertised throughout the neighborhood. Many people of color were present. These are the folks who wanted to be captured on google.

[Microsoftultimatefan]

Hmmmm... If there was a car on my street with a camara on top of it then I would have remembered

[drunkgorilla]

No blacks or Latinos live in the area?

[FatLewy27]

Actually,lots of funny street view photos came from ghetto areas, like the kid being chase by a guy with a gun

[Jamie Spencer]

wrong idiot. I checked an address when I lived in a small town in Ohio, that was a horrible area that was mostly full of welfare recipients. Granted for me it was years ago, but the entire area and street was there. FOOL

[minyuette]

Hilarious! I wish you had documented the driver's expression as he drove down the street. He had to be cracking up.