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Coorow-Latham Road
2011 · Film · short · 16 min
Directed by Blake Williams
A trek down the entire length of Coorow-Latham Road – a small, barely inhabited path in Western Australia, about 250km north of Perth. The camera faces forward at the beginning, then slowly pans to the left over the course of the journey until it finally settles on a rear-view gaze of the road travelled. Images acquired from Google’s Street View application.
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Interesting utility, and kudos for making it OSS! Something I couldn't help but notice is that it is very similar to a short film which played at TIFF 2011 called "Coorow-Latham Road" by Blake Williams, a 20 minute video work which played in the Wavelengths experimental section of the festival.
A short clip of the video is available here: http://vimeo.com/26850823
Amusingly, the artist has created another version of the video, now that hyperlapse is available: https://vimeo.com/63778677
The original film, Coorow-Latham Road, is edited and manipulated from screenshots of a Google street view road trip along the length of a road in rural Australia. The camera rotates 180 degrees from forward to backward along the 20 minute trip.
This may be a case where art inspires software, which is an interesting phenomenon in itself, or maybe it's a freak coincidence!