Monday, June 18, 2007

New York - Shedwa's Tour #13 - The Met


From Wikipedia:

"The Met" is one of the world's largest and most important art museums... located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States along what is known as Museum Mile... The Met's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art.

Thanks to shedwa for the submission! You should check out his blog for New York commentary and pictures of cool ads, like this one:


New York - Shedwa's Tour #14 - The Apple Store


There's a great close-up picture of the store's glass cube on Wikipedia.

Thanks to shedwa for the submission! You should check out his blog for New York commentary and pictures of cool ads, like this one:


New York - Shedwa's Tour #15 - The George Washington Bridge


From Wikipedia:

The GW is considered one of the world's busiest bridges in terms of vehicle traffic; In 2004, the bridge carried 108,404,000 vehicles, with current AADT estimates of nearly 300,000 vehicles daily. This number is similar to that of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The GW span is the fourth largest suspension bridge in the U.S as of 2006.

Thanks to shedwa for the submission! You should check out his blog for New York commentary and pictures of cool ads, like this one:


Saturday, June 16, 2007

Coming Up - A tour of New York City


Reader shedwa has been gracious enough to send in some great Street View links of the well-known sights of New York City. So far most of our links have been to San Francisco, so coming soon: views from the other side of fly-over country.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #3 - Garbage man with alien


See this post for more about Greg Brown and his art style.


Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #3 - Bank robber falls from roof


See this post for more about Greg Brown and his art style.


Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #2 - Secret agent with bird on head


From Wikipedia:

Greg Brown is a painter and native of Palo Alto, California, best known for his Trompe l'oeil murals in the San Francisco Bay area.

From Wikipedia:

Trompe-l'oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for "trick the eye"...

San Francisco Landmarks #10 - The World Famous Bushman


(via Laughing Squid)

From Wikipedia:

...the World Famous Bushman, is a busker (street performer) who... hides behind branches and waits for unsuspecting people to wander by. When they approach, he jumps out and startles them... In a "good year", Johnson claims to earn $60,000... He employs a bodyguard to protect him against attacks by the unamused...

Check out the hilarious picture of some girls being scared.


San Francisco - Adult bookstore on O'Farrell Street


(via Mashable)

If you want to work there... "Full/Part time  Great pay! Benefits!

Denver Area - The Giant Pumpkin


(via Mashable)


San Francisco - Lombard Street - The boy with the green eye


(via Mashable)

We've shown Lombard Street before. It's the curviest street in the US.


San Francisco - The black wall in the middle of Howard Street


(via Mashable)


San Jose - Steve Wozniak Way


Steve Wozniak is the co-founder of Apple Computer. From Wikipedia:

Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" (a pun on iPod). "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. He is known for his introverted character, and he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying.

(via Mashable)


Welcome to StreetReviewer.com!


Welcome to StreetReviewer.com, with all the best pictures from Google Maps™ Street View. We let you spy on people and things in San Francisco (and the San Francisco Bay Area,) New York, Denver, Los Vegas, and Miami.

Be sure to vote on your favorite views, or check out the current leaders here.

You can also view images by category. Try checking out voyeur, breaking the law, or weird. All the categories are listed on the web site in the column on the right, or you can click here.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Palo Alto - Greg Brown mural #1 - Man pushing alien in stroller


Nice shot of the same, on Flickr here.

(thanks Derek!)


San Francisco - Motorcycle guy makes eye contact


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Woman takes picture of the Google Van


(via Wired)


San Francisco - The police bust from a different angle


Turns out the previously mentioned police bust is visible by walking down the street and looking from a different angle:


San Francisco - Runaway stroller


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Voyeur cam captures a voyeur


(via Wired)


Dania Beach - The Google Van gets a speeding ticket??


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Nose picker 2


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Nose picker 1


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Anti-war protester


(via Wired)


San Francisco - The police bust that no longer happened


This used to be a picture of some police offers and some unhappy people. Now it's gone:

(via Wired)


New York - Crowd outside of the Apple Store


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Produce for sale


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Jesus Christ Loves You


(via Wired)


San Francisco - The Muni


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Absolutely amazing image of tourists in front of the Bay Bridge


(via Wired)


San Leandro - Looks like fun!


(via Wired)


New York - Google promotes Yahoo in Times Square


(via Wired)


San Francisco - Mr. Smith from the Matrix on the Golden Gate Bridge


The Google Van caught this guy in two consecutive images... or is his doppleganger following him?

(via Wired)


San Francisco - Nice undies


(via Wired)


San Francisco Landmarks #9 - A cable car


(submitted by Sean)


San Francisco Landmarks #8 - The Palace of Fine Arts


(submitted by Sean)


Stanford - Spiderwoman barely misses the stripe-shirted woman


Click on the image to zoom in:

(via Wired)

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Redwood City - Penguin crossing sign in front of Oracle buildings


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Then try zooming out and dragging the picture around for some great shots of the Oracle buildings.

(via Wired)

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San Francisco - By the ocean - Vinny sleeps with the fishes


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(via Wired)

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San Francisco - The world's smallest Porche


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Looks like the stitching procedure Google uses to combine the photos failed in this case. For other interesting technology mess-ups, click here to view the "surrealistic" category.

(via Wired)

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San Francisco - A pigeon in flight


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(via Wired)

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Stanford - Say cheese!


A guy caught grinning for the camera:

(via Wired)

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San Francisco - United Railway Telegraph Schools


Essential skills for the modern world:

(via Wired)

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Palo Alto - Scooby Doo, where are you?


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(via Wired)

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San Francisco - Tai-Chi in the Golden Gate park


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More on Tai-Chi, the Chinese martial art on Wikipedia.

(via Wired)

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San Francisco - Copying, lamination, and... bling?


Funny mistake made when stitching the photos together:

That's supposed to be binding. Definition of "bling."

(via Wired)


Street View thoughts - Raanan has some good uses


This guy has some pretty good ideas for... productive... uses of Street View:

extremely useful in scouting out new areas for apartments. I expect sites like craiglist to link to this directly in short order.
useful for evaluating businesses locations, and any other commercial real estate deals.

Read more here.


San Francisco - Tourists at the top of Lombard Street


You may have noticed the tourists snapping photos at the top of Lombard Street, the subject of the previous post. Here's a closer look. Click to zoom in:

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