{"id":378852,"date":"2010-03-01T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5482769"},"modified":"2010-03-01T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T01:20:00","slug":"paintings-for-satellites-rooftop-art-targets-a-google-earth-audience-google-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/378852","title":{"rendered":"Paintings For Satellites: Rooftop Art Targets a Google Earth Audience [Google Earth]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_6.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Artist <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #mollydilworth\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/mollydilworth\/\">Molly Dilworth<\/a> doesn&#8217;t want to waste time showing off her work in stuffy studios. Instead, she&#8217;s taking her paintings to the rooftops, with vast pieces specifically designed to be viewed by <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #googleearth\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/googleearth\/\">Google Earth<\/a>&#8216;s satellites.<\/p>\n<p>There was a similar (though a smidge more lowbrow) attempt at something similar a couple of years ago, when a Canadian student tried to start a global, Google Earth-inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/378629\/wheres-waldo-available-to-play-on-google-earth\">game of Where&#8217;s Waldo<\/a>. Dilworth&#8217;s images, though, will range from abstract color swipes to a type of large-scale pointillism, where pictures snap into focus only when viewed from high in the air.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5482702,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Dilworth describes it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My work is generally concerned with human perception of current conditions; the <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #paintingsforsatellites\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/paintingsforsatellites\/\">Paintings for Satellites<\/a> are specifically concerned with the effects of the digital on our physical bodies. All my work begins a series of rules derived from existing conditions. For example, the color palette for the rooftop paintings is made from the discarded paint available on a given day; the physical surface of the roof determines the shape of the painting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s gotten a great head start; the only hiccup is that there&#8217;s no telling how long it might take for Google Earth&#8217;s satellites to capture the work. But it&#8217;s heartening to know that someday all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5429167\/google-street-view-spots-one-chunky-mans-funky-truck-party\">ridiculousness<\/a> found on Google Street View might be balanced out by Google Earth masterpieces. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mollydilworth\/sets\/72157623364560566\/\">Molly Dilworth<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/02\/27\/stunning-rooftop-paintings-that-can-be-seen-from-satellites\/\">Inhabitat<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=97b705b06a8180534a00b52455315d82&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=97b705b06a8180534a00b52455315d82&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=okUJG6O6KZk:JH4f8GJYfBQ:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=okUJG6O6KZk:JH4f8GJYfBQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=okUJG6O6KZk:JH4f8GJYfBQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=okUJG6O6KZk:JH4f8GJYfBQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=okUJG6O6KZk:JH4f8GJYfBQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=okUJG6O6KZk:JH4f8GJYfBQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/okUJG6O6KZk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Molly Dilworth doesn&#8217;t want to waste time showing off her work in stuffy studios. Instead, she&#8217;s taking her paintings to the rooftops, with vast pieces specifically designed to be viewed by Google Earth&#8216;s satellites. There was a similar (though a smidge more lowbrow) attempt at something similar a couple of years ago, when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}