http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:04:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/google-rolls-street-view-indoors-with-places-headlines.html Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:40:15 +0000 The search giant brings Street View inside shops.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/psfks-top-five-stories-of-the-week.html Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:34:56 +0000 Review the best in design, trends, culture, arts and fashion in our weekly 'What's Trending Now' roundup.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/london-in-3d-with-google-earth-video.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:56:19 +0000 Take a virtual tour of historic locations in the capital city.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/need-to-know-10-must-read-posts-of-the-week-vol-12.html Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:25:42 +0000 A Bing Initiative: A weekly round-up of the top ten most popular posts on PSFK--from culture to technology, art to business, this list has it all.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/giant-rooftop-qr-codes-might-help-businesses-get-noticed-on-google.html Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:08:18 +0000 QR codes painted on rooftops might give businesses that extra marketing boost. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/google-earth-downloaded-more-than-one-billion-times-headlines.html Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:11:49 +0000 Today, the mapping application reached a milestone number of desktop, mobile, and plug-in downloads.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/abstract-journeys-visual-explorations-of-humankinds-development.html Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:15:44 +0000 A Google Earth collage turns the development of the earth by humankind into art.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/artist-creates-rooftop-murals-hoping-that-her-work-will-reach-new-heights-video.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:59:59 +0000 Molly Dilworth’s project 'Paintings for Satellites' features artwork on the tops of New York buildings, and has inspired a conversation about using rooftops as advertising billboards.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/could-google-earth-murals-be-the-new-billboards.html Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:37:37 +0000 A failed art installation creates the potential for "global" advertising campaigns.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/01/visualizing-manhattan-as-a-tetris-board.html Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:33:25 +0000 Using Google Earth and a GPS, digital artist Tim Clark was able to transform a city into an online version of the popular video game.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/art-created-from-google-satellite-images.html Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:39:20 +0000 Swimming pools, salt lakes, and water towers serve as inspiration for a unique series of artist prints.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/real-time-tracking-of-airplane-flights-on-google-earth.html Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:18:10 +0000 A new feature will offer detailed flight info for commercial flights in America.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/mapping-the-london-underground-live.html Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:44:09 +0000 What are the ramifications of privacy issues when mapping the earth and status awareness collide?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/video-fly-through-a-3d-new-york-city-with-google.html Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:36:16 +0000 Google Earth has unveiled a crisper 3D version of New York City that provides an enhanced visual perspective of storefronts, residences, sidewalks, and hi-rise towers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/giant-qr-code-cut-into-german-field-for-google-earth.html Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:52:02 +0000 This giant QR code was spotted in a German agricultural field, intended by the Hello World project to be captured by Google Earth.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/monopoly-x-google-maps-the-planet-turns-into-one-giant-board-game.html Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:49:28 +0000 A partnership between Google and Monopoly will turn the whole globe into an interactive game.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/google-earth-50-contains-lunar-atlas.html Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:05:57 +0000 Exactly 40 years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, Google Earth launched the 5.0 version of their software containing an interactive 3-D atlas of the Moon.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/pic-real-life-dead-pixel.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:30:25 +0000 A small 82cmx82cm square of dirt has been created to represent a “dead pixel” in Google Earth by artist Helmut Smits. He burned out the square from a patch of grass, which would look like a non-functioning pixel at a vertical distance of 1km. [via Laughing Squid]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/google-maps-typography.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:37:27 +0000 Rhett Dashwood spent several months between his commercial design projects scanning Google Maps to try to find land formations or buildings that resembled letter forms. Th image above is just the letters he found within the state of Victoria, Australia. Rhett Dashwood [via ComputerLove]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/surfing-google-earth-on-the-wii-fit.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:24:16 +0000 Two German artificial intelligence researchers have developed a hack for the Wii Fit that allows them to surf Google Earth terrain. While the Wii Fit has already demonstrated another capability in the internet-assisted health care realm, the hack gives it a fun new use by taking advantage of the boards 4 ‘wobbling’ sensors, converting them into steering and throttle, allowing the user to cruise over the satellite mapped ground like famed Marvel comic hero Silver Surfer. [via kottke]]]>