image: Detail from The Great Day of His Wrath, by John Martin
If you haven’t seen it already, take some time to go and explore Art Project, a collaboration between Google and some of the world’s top galleries. Use the highest definition screen you can find…
Going along on street view on Google Maps, you see the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
You can then wander around the museum…
Then click on a painting and see it in very high definition…
Image: Detail from The Dream by Henry Rousseau
In Peter Day‘s annual tech trends interview in with Mark Andersen of Strategic News Service, the latter was scathing about Google’s lack of direction and its seeming inability to monetise the outputs of its (previously) much-admired 20 per cent time.
When they produce something as wonderful as Art Project, a large of me thinks: I don’t care. Take a look for yourself, it’s just thrilling.
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