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Take LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner anywhere

by Timothy Whitehead on May.26, 2016, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA

Last week we talked about how American actor Shia LaBeouf had been tweeting a cryptic message using geographic coordinates that we expected would spell out “Take me anywhere”. It turns out that that guess was correct and that he meant it literally. Together with artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö & Luke Turner he will be tweeting a location where anyone can go and pick him up and take them anywhere. Once at a new destination, they will again tweet the coordinates and await a new lift. Follow their travels on this website.


takemeanywhere.vice.com

Read more about it here

Interestingly, the same three artists have previously collaborated in another art project involving taking a different kind of lift

Here is the full message Shia tweeted:




To see the above letters in Google Earth download this KML file.


 
 
A little known feature of Google Earth:

Select the folder of placemarks and then click the “Play Tour” button to see all the placemarks in a tour.

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Shia LaBeouf tweets cryptic message with GPS coordinates

by Timothy Whitehead on May.18, 2016, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA

American actor Shia LeBeouf has been tweeting a GPS coordinate daily since May 9th without any explanation. The coordinates are all near Denver Colorado. As pointed out in this article, the geographic features at each location resemble a letter of the alphabet. All the letters are clearly readable with north at the top of the screen, which has the benefit of being readable in Google Maps.



All images from Google Earth.

The message so far appears to read TAKE ME ANY

It is believed the full message may be TAKE ME ANYWHERE. LaBeouf is expected to appear at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a panel discussion with artists Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner on May 22 as part of the MediaLive festival and the message may be a reference to artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s project “Take me anywhere”.

This is not the first time someone has used geographic features to spell things out. We have in the past looked at a font created from satellite images and there is geogreeting.com that lets you send messages with letters in satellite images.

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