fuck yeah cartography!

austinkleon:

Jenny Odell, “Every Basketball Court in Manhattan,” part of her Satellite Collections (images cut from Google Satellite View)

From this view the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that read: people were here.

Jenny’s a fellow 20x200 artist — my friend Hawk linked to this nice interview with her. Like what she says here about reuse:

It’s a stance you take. You can either be overwhelmed, or you can turn it around and use the information and data to make something. Re-use turns the whole thing around.

She has a Tumblr here.

Filed under: Google art.