Comments on: Ginsberg’s Howl and the view from the street http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/06/04/ginsbergs-howl-and-the-view-from-the-street/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:38:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/06/04/ginsbergs-howl-and-the-view-from-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-18420 John Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:48:42 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2002#comment-18420 Nathalie: those are some of the issues people have raised already. One of the comments linked to above has someone spotting themselves sneaking into work late. Makes me wonder if people will start chasing the Google van out of town if they see it. Martin: it's a mixed blessing, I think. On the one hand you can see somewhere you've never been in considerable detail; on the other, the muddy quality of many of the images doesn't do justice to the light of the place. The Sätty house was a bit of a let-down but not too much since we'd seen a number of photos while with David Singer. But it was still smaller than I anticipated. Nathalie: those are some of the issues people have raised already. One of the comments linked to above has someone spotting themselves sneaking into work late. Makes me wonder if people will start chasing the Google van out of town if they see it.

Martin: it’s a mixed blessing, I think. On the one hand you can see somewhere you’ve never been in considerable detail; on the other, the muddy quality of many of the images doesn’t do justice to the light of the place. The Sätty house was a bit of a let-down but not too much since we’d seen a number of photos while with David Singer. But it was still smaller than I anticipated.

]]> By: Martin Jones http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/06/04/ginsbergs-howl-and-the-view-from-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-18325 Martin Jones Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:59:57 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2002#comment-18325 As Nathalie states: fascinating, but worrying. Does this mean that to do ANY research you would not have to leave the comfort of your PC? If so, we can only ponder what Dracula would have been like if Bram Stoker were around to write it today (for instance), with the internet instead of travel guides... The Satty house must have come as a great disappointment - compared to Bobby B's gothic wonder - considering how images of these places build up in the mind. Similarly, I was somewhat let-down a few years back when in Paris to find the address of 19th century erotomaniac Fred Hankey. Eventually we located it perched on top of a bank... his actual grave was a much more exciting matter. As Nathalie states: fascinating, but worrying. Does this mean that to do ANY research you would not have to leave the comfort of your PC? If so, we can only ponder what Dracula would have been like if Bram Stoker were around to write it today (for instance), with the internet instead of travel guides…
The Satty house must have come as a great disappointment – compared to Bobby B’s gothic wonder – considering how images of these places build up in the mind. Similarly, I was somewhat let-down a few years back when in Paris to find the address of 19th century erotomaniac Fred Hankey. Eventually we located it perched on top of a bank… his actual grave was a much more exciting matter.

]]> By: Nathalie http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/06/04/ginsbergs-howl-and-the-view-from-the-street/comment-page-1/#comment-18322 Nathalie Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:27:18 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2002#comment-18322 Amazing capability. But although I quite like the idea of being able to go window shopping from behind my computer (and in San Fransisco too !), I cannot help feel a little awkward about the use of such facility to monitor people (for all we know that person seen in front of the book store might have told her/his love/employer that she/he was sick/at work and what then ?) - a little too "big Brother" for my tastes, really. Amazing capability. But although I quite like the idea of being able to go window shopping from behind my computer (and in San Fransisco too !), I cannot help feel a little awkward about the use of such facility to monitor people (for all we know that person seen in front of the book store might have told her/his love/employer that she/he was sick/at work and what then ?) – a little too “big Brother” for my tastes, really.

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