Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

~ Live & Learn

Notes:

  • Source: Vox.com – Awesome photos show how Google is using a camel to map deserts. When Google wants to create its Street View maps — the ones that show the buildings and sidewalks that line the world’s streets — it sends a funny-looking car with a camera on top off to capture the footage. Those StreetView cars work great in places where there are roads. But in the world’s more remote locations — a desert in Abu Dhabi, lets say — vehicles don’t cut it. Enter Raffia, the camel carrying a camera across the Liwa oasis to produce more Google Maps.
  • Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again

38 thoughts on “Guess.What.Day.It.Is?”

  10. You know how some people like to listen to nature sounds, rain or waves, to help them fall asleep?
    I want something to put on my eyes that’ll trasport me to what Caleb’s camera is registering.

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  15. In my former life, I visited the desert of the US by VW bus. I was mesmerized by the ever changing sand dunes and although we only slept one night in the desert, it was an eerie experience, very hot during the day and within minutes it got quite cold. Rolled down the dunes, lost our way a few times because sand had covered the ‘lane’, an interesting experience but also one I wouldn’t want to repeat, in all its beauty and quiet terror.
    Kept thinking about this post. Hero Husband told me that he read an article that Google was doing the same thing on the mountain trails in Switzerland. I seems that people are walking those steep and uneven stony trails with a GoPro camera facing ahead and one on their backpacks. I said: Why on earth does every square-centimeter of our world have to be photographed, filmed, noted? Where is the mystery, the unbeknown beauty, where is the magic? We had no replies which is not really surprising

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