Valentine’s Day Street Art

<p>Love in street art isn&rsquo;t like love in Hallmark cards.</p> <p>Street artists push the boundaries of love and what Valentine&rsquo;s Day can be about.</p> <p>I don&rsquo;t claim to have done&nbsp;<em>the</em>&nbsp;definitive&nbsp;<strong><em>Love in Street Ar</em>t</strong>&nbsp;study but I&rsquo;ve made a start. As usual, my source is the&nbsp;<strong>Google Street View database</strong>, all the street art recorded either by the Google-Cam on the Google-Car or by private individuals, like me, who have uploaded hi-resolution 360 degree images.</p> <p>I use the images in two ways. One is to simply make one image the entire view, as if we are standing right where the Google-Camera took that exact picture. In the AltspaceVR social VR platform, this technique is referred to as a&nbsp;<strong><em>Skybox</em></strong>. Like Jim Carrey was under all the time in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Truman Show</em></a>.</p> <p>The same image recorded by the Google-Cam can also be made into a smaller version of the Skybox called a&nbsp;<strong><em>Photosphere</em></strong>, which has one important difference &mdash;it&rsquo;s an object, a sphere with an image mapped to the inside.</p> <p><a href="https://tomnickel.medium.com/valentines-day-street-art-96c2c1b9d1aa"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>