SWAV on Current TV

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SWAV on Deutsche Public Television

Last Monday, a production crew for Germany's 3sat public television station flew into a snowy Pittsburgh to cover the Street With A View story. We spent the entire day filming in the museum & around the neighborhood, interviewing Robin and some neighbors who were involved with the project, and testing the merit of our non-skid soles as we scaled the icy roof of the Mattress Factory to get that opening panoramic skyline shot of the STEEL City. The segment ran on the German television show "Neues" yesterday evening. Click the image below to view the entire piece.



Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

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Linkage 11/18/08

Below is a nice cross-section of Street With A View linkage. Apologies if I've overlooked any links. Please leave the URL in the comments.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
MSNBC
FOX News
NPR
The Independent
CNET
Brooklyn Museum
Sydney Morning Herald
PopCity Media
The Age
Art 21
Wooster Collective
Rhizome
Swiss Miss
FAD Fast Art News
The Daily What
Bloggy
Spacing Toronto
PSFK
The Where Blog
Code For Something
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Gloo
Neatorama
ARTINFO
PicoCool
Not Yellow, Chicken
Vincent's Blog
Super Floss
Yewknee
Brand Flakes for Breakfast
Netkarachi
Switched
Bureau 347
I Heart PGH

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Street With A View

OFFICIAL PROJECT WEBSITE: http://www.streetwithaview.com

This past May, we had the great opportunity to work on a very exciting project with artists Robin Hewlett and Benjamin Kinsley. A few months earlier, the artists approached the the Mattress Factory with a proposal to re-shoot a Pittsburgh street on Google Street View, staging tableaux along the way. Essentially introducing fiction into an otherwise observational platform. Participants would then be able to navigate through the piece, discovering virtual "Easter eggs" as they explore.

Obviously, we felt the idea was amazing and we were excited to offer any assistance we could provide. But would Google feel the same way? We all were amazed the answer was, "Yes."

So with Google's blessing, we began planning the event. Ben and Robin felt Sampsonia Way, here on Pittsburgh's North Side, was the perfect street because of the one-way traffic flow and adjacent garages perfect for embedding hidden scenes. They spent a lot of time meeting with us and our North Side neighbors, many of whom you can see in the final piece embedded above.

Below is a short video documenting the making of Street With A View:



For more information on the project, please visit http://www.streetwithaview.com

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