1. Palm tree island
Google Earth found a giant size of palm-tree-shape island in Dubai. The island’s total area is larger than 800 football pitches. The crown is connected to the mainland by a 300-meter bridge and the crescent is connected to the top of the palm by a subsea tunnel.
2. Ship in the city
Seems there is a cruise liner crashed in middle of a city. Actually it is a big shopping mall built in the shape of a cruise ship called the Whampoa Boat.
3. Airport graveyard
The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is situated outside Tuscon, Arizona. There are more than 4,000 military aircrafts are dismantled here.
4. Guitar-shaped mansion
This is a mansion located near Birmingham, AL, USA. It is owned by former COO Larry House of a scandal-hit healthcare company. Built on 27 acres of land, the property has 21 bedrooms and 22 bathrooms; a 13-cars garage; a 25-seat home theater and a wine cellar for 2,000 bottles.
5. GOD??!!
Post-modernist philosophers claim is dead? If you visit Google Street View over a lake in Quarten, Switzerland, you will see God. Some one claimed that the image is most likely to be the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, and Apple fanboys claim that it cannot be God because it was not wearing a polo neck and jeans and was not carrying its magical iPad…
Lol. The ubiquity of information seems almost superfluous, and seeing images like the ones you posted makes one wonder what the purpose is for making those images available, aside from entertainment purposes. And yet, someone out there likely will find use for it. I think we all have a vague sense of how powerful and pervasive the technology is that we have available today, but it is definitely bizarre when you contextualize Castell’s characterization of the information society we live in within the framework of our everyday lives. Information is constantly being captured and synthesized as we go about our daily activities, and we often are unaware of our role as unwitting participants in this process. To use a trivial example, though we would never know it, our image likely appears in other people’s photographs and videos, just as other people incidentally appears in ours. Sometimes you don’t realize the significance of an image or information you just captured until it is illuminated by recent events, as has been the case with Pulitzer Prize winning photographs. This brings to mind the idea of the “butterfly effect,” which describes how something as seemingly negligible as a butterfly’s wings can profoundly influence weather patterns, such as altering the trajectory of a tornado. While the science behind this analogy is strongly supplemented by its philosophical implications, in terms of today’s information society I am inclined to believe there is a ripple effect in the information we create and receive.
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