Google Earth Tour

Using Google Earth movie maker and Adobe After Effects, I created a spacial mapping of significant places in my life and information of activity at these locations. I chose three locations to explore: San Francisco-CA, June Lake-CA, and El Sabino, Guanajuato-Mexico. These are all locations in which I have either lived or spent a large amount of time in. The first location is San Francisco, I have been living in for four years. The Mission District is where we stop and where I've been living for over three years now and I couldn't imagine living in any other area of the city. The second location is June Lake, California. This was the vacation spot for my family my whole life up until 2008 when my parents bought a coffee shop in town named Trout Town Joe. Since then, I travel up there as much as I can (about 2-4 times a year) to work at the cafe, snowboard, and spend time with my parents. The final destination of the video travels to Mexico in the small town of El Sabino in the state of Guanajuato. One of my good friends from high school has a family house out here where we spent the Summer of 2009. Learning the culture, familiarizing with the Spanish language, and traveling around Mexico became one of the most amazing experiences I could ever have. This video looks at a virtual mapping of space, location, and distance in which we invest our time and lives.

Google Earth Tour

Evert Schut

Evert Schut studies the art of satellite photography. Hes come up with his own terminology for the field. Hes from the Netherlands and hes fascinated by our planet and revealing its secrets

Artist Bio:
I'm a biologist/ environmental expert bij education and trade, but an artist at heart. I've been painting since I was young. Now my work is starting to sell I'm spending more and more time painting. I share a studio with a couple of my painter friends in Culemborg. Our work is shown regularly in one of the local galaries. Until I discovered Google Earth and it's potential for new art forms I painted landscapes with a tendency towards abstraction. You can get an idea of my other paintings at the Yessy site where my paintings are on sale (see links). Eef is short for Evert my first name, and its the name I use to sign my Google Earth paintings.


Nick Leahy

 

Nick Leahy uses satellite photos from Google Earth to paint his pieces.

Here are his artist statements for the artwork above:

PHYSICAL MAPS OF SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND  (2007 - 2008)
South East Queensland is a region of scenic beauty with numerous mountain ranges along part of the Great Dividing Range and within close proximity to the coastline.  The natural contours of these physical maps create patterns that illustrate the beautiful landscape of the hinterland.
AERIAL LANDSCAPES OF SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND  (2008)
The Darling Downs of South East Queensland represent the typical farming lifestyle of Queensland.  The patchwork of fields from this district viewed from the air create abstract patterns with solid shapes and vivid lines.  This fusion between maps and traditional landscape painting can also be illustrated through the 3 dimensional tones and shadows of mountains, for example, Mt Barney and Mt Haldon.