Google Earth Hack: An Art Gallery Experience

Markus Dressen has taken the power of Google Maps towards a showcase of illumined manuscripts, Bauhaus design, and medieval whimsy. In doing so, he has once again revealed that Google Earth does much more than give you directions: it is a means towards empowering people to express themselves more creatively.

Each item in this gallery makes you want to pause and stare. The painstaking detail therein allows you to gaze in awe-inspiring respect at how much time it must have taken towards not just each artwork, but how the artwork is presented. A blue-eyed boy stares at you blankly. Below, rows of decrepit televisions rot in what seems to be an abandoned basement science experiment. There are much more contrasts besides this.

This provokes me to wonder at how well Google Maps can present the work of artists compared to Flash. Will more people take up Markus Dressen's lead?