Red Bull has teamed up with Brazilian ad agency Loducca to create Street Art View – a user updated global map utilizing Google street view to catalog street art around the world. Now, instead of having to travel to street art hotspots like New York or São Paulo, you can hop on to StreetArtView.com to check out street art online.
You can search by artist or location and each image is labeled with the artist, title and the location of the piece. The site is synced with Twitter and Facebook and has thumbnails of geotagged Flickr images. The site does not update in real time and with an art form that is constantly changing and getting painted over, we’ll see if StreetArtView is fast enough to keep up with the streets.
This is a new way of documenting street art and it’s pretty incredible. Street Art affiicionados don’t need to hop on planes anymore, they can just get online. Though using Google Street View may have its limits, it’s only a matter of time until the technology catches up to the concepts. Let the street art documenting begin!
Source: Design Boom
