Walk of Ideas Pt. 2

Continuing our journey along Germany's "Walk of Ideas" we arrive at a giant pill entitled "Milestones of Medicine". Then there's "Milestones in Music" - a collection of giant musical notes in front of the Konzerthaus. Which leads us to "Modern…

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Monday, 9th October 2006

Walk of Ideas

The 'Walk of Ideas' was an 'art project' throughout Berlin which was put in place of the World Cup earlier this year. The 6 sculptures promoted the best of Germany, and not very subtly provided advertising for the project's two…

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Sunday, 8th October 2006

ICP

ICP, a crew of graffiti artists in the San Francisco area, have tagged up this roof and thanks to the passing photography plane have gained more exposure than they probably expected. My initial worries that the tag was related to…

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Friday, 6th October 2006

Fort Boyard

Brand new on Google Maps/Earth this week is Fort Boyard, located between the Île d'Oléron and the Île-d'Aix in the Pertuis d'Antioche straits, on the west coast of France. It was designed to bridge the gap between the two islands,…

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Thursday, 5th October 2006

Trafalgar Square Crowd

Man, there's a whole heap of people in Trafalgar Square since the latest image update. Does anyone know what they're all doing? Update: dda worked it out - this is the 29th of January 2006, and we're seeing several thousand…

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Wednesday, 4th October 2006

Giant Teddy Bear and the World’s Shortest River

Amongst several other interesting kite-shadows here at the Lincoln City Summer Kite Festival, Oregon, is the perfect outline of a giant sky-blue teddy bear! The huge flying teddy is 12 metres long, and you can actually pick one up in…

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Wednesday, 4th October 2006

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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