the Big Art Mob…
everyone gets a chance to put art on the map now. (only in UK i am afraid, thou they say on the website that anybody can send in from anywhere. Maybe it just wouldn’t appear on the map.) People can send in their photo thru sms…email or online submission. Send in with the artist name..the title of the work… and the address of the work and you will have a little flag on the google map with the image that you sent in.
Nice. i think it is good for visitors to UK who are out for a art or architecture tour. Places to look out for things besides going to the museums. i think it’s nice also to see what is art to everyone of us. i have seen pictures of a garden statue in somebody’s backyard…graffiti on a switchbox…funny shaped neon lights. Not everything is famous or done by somebody famous. i like the randomness of it all…
It definitely does work from beyond the UK – I’ve tried it from Canada and Switzerland, for example.
I think when you get out of urban areas outside the UK it can strain the system a bit – it’s based on GoogleMaps which can get a bit vague beyond built-up areas.