The end of a road in Sund, Norway
Do you remember the kid in the movie Barrio who got a jet ski living hundreds of kilometers from the sea? This summer many will stay like him: in his neighborhood, without vacations and longing for distant places. Others will leave, but asking the body to make a journey to a crazy destination. Well, to one and the other we propose a game: visit with Google Street View places that go beyond the exotic.
Yes, it sounds like a cheap substitute for a real trip, but it can be a good way to lose the fear of visiting certain places and even get the bug of packing for those who are not used to it. Here we show you Five examples of crazy trips with Google cars that we hope will inspire you.
1) ROADS THAT DO NOT END IN ROME
Alan Taylor, author of the popular photography blog In Focus, recently decided to explore the limits of various roads throughout the world with Street View . In the collection of images of him we find the one that is further south in Africa, some cut by the lava of the Hawaiian volcanoes or those that lead to places like an abandoned Russian city at the ends of the world.
A bust of Lenin in Svalbard
2) DISTURBING JAPAN
It's not at all clear what a bunch of people dressed in bird heads were doing waiting for Google to photograph them in the middle of the street, but ** the scene looks like something out of a David Lynch nightmare **. Especially if we take a walk around the neighborhood where we find this fauna, which could well be a Japanese version of the one that appears in Blue Velvet.
Haunting Pigeons in Japan
3) THE SCENARIOS OF THE WORLD PRESS PHOTOS
Recently, the Minister of Foreign Affairs screwed up by saying that Samuel Aranda's famous photo of a person digging through a garbage container had not been taken in Spain, but in Greece. The group Archeology of the point of view found the street in Gerona where it was made. This experiment gives us an idea of how interesting it can be to visit the places where some of the best-known photos have been taken of the last times.
4) RADIOACTIVE CITIES
After the accident Fukushima Many have not been able to return to their homes within the radioactive exclusion area, which today is one of the best possible scenarios to set a post-apocalyptic movie (if a film crew could move there, of course). The seeker's cars have managed to enter one of the towns in that forbidden zone.
Radioactive cities in Japan
5) LITERARY PILGRIMS WITHOUT TOUR OPERATORS
Every day lots of tour guides are busy explaining the history of the famous hunchback in Notre Dame de Paris. But literary trips allow for much more: for example, visiting the New Jersey funeral home that José Hierro spoke of in his poem Requiem, we think is a perfect example of literary escapism.
In the footsteps of José Hierro in New Jersey
We close this little brainstorm with a practical recommendation for those who want to make a road movie with Street View and immortalize it on video: with the online tool Hyperlapse it is possible. Of course, you put the soundtrack and better if it is sung at the top of your lungs. Oh, and don't forget the map.