Watching Blaise
Agüera y Arcas’s “Augmented-reality map” Ted Talk was very interesting, I was
actually excited to watch it because I have always been a fan of Ted Talks. The
whole concept behind it was to show everyone the new “invention” him and his
team came up with, which is “Bing Maps.” I think the way he described the map didn’t
make it sound too “empirical,” and scientific, instead, he showed street view
of the actual environment of that place, where people are walking and the
photos are candid instead of posed. It reminded me of Edward Ruscha’s “every
building on sunset strip” project. They both give you the feel of the specific
place, the people, environment, different times of day, which is way more “humanistic”
than scientific, so it makes it more interesting because its something we can
actually enjoy seeing, instead of numbers and graphs or just a bird’s eye view
of the place. It made me feel like I was there in that specific place walking
around with everyone.
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