View from the top …
p2pnet news view | Cool:- What’s the pic on the right?
It’s a view of the top of a London, England, bus stop as seen from the top of a London, England, bus. 
And IOHO, it’s exceeding cool.
It’s a, “city wide canvas for sharing the art of our streets, our communities, our London, our experience,” says Bus.Tops, going on »»»
Bus.Tops provides the canvas that allows London to tell its stories. These can be small, intimate stories of a neighbourhood or citywide adventures that draw us into a London we never imagined; or simply moments of beauty, wonder, questioning, critique, comment and exploration. These stories unfold on a canvas made up of networked panels of programmable LEDs situated on the roofs of bus stops across London.
As well as the canvas, Bus.Tops provides the tools and platform from which both publicly recognised artists and the public we recognise as artists are empowered to create a truly public art experience. Bus.Tops will work with established artists to create a curated collection of works distributed across the bus.tops canvas. These will be celebrated as being at the vanguard of artistic innovation and exploration. However these works will also be the foundation from which a new generation of authors and artists will be inspired create their first piece of public art.
The potential of Bus.Tops is only limited by the imagination of 8 million Londoners.
As a transplanted (to Canada) Londoner, I think it’s an amazing idea with huge potential.
Excellent!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
September, 2009
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 am
And this will appear in Google Earth too!
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Now that the idea’s out, they better do it, before the advertising industry realizes what they’ve overlooked!
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
And this is different than Google Street View, how? Some of the photos even include people in them. Where’s the outrage over people being photographed without their consent?
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
It bugs me. Dunno about the rest of you.
This security theater is going too far.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I mean it looks right into peoples windows! Look at the pic.
Way overboard in the name of false security
I see nothing cool about it personally.
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
@ the 3 posts above, especially “I mean it looks right into peoples windows! ”
heh
London buses have been doing that for what, 100 years?
With Bus.Tops you’re looking down, not across. And the pix of the people? They’re just illustrations of the art-form on this one site, not Google using people’s homes millions of times over for advertising purposes.
Cheers!
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
“And the pix of the people? Theyâre just illustrations of the art-form on this one site”
I’m not referring to the people looking through the model, I’m referring to the ones who were at the bus stops when the pics were taken.
Was I or was I not told on this very site that *NOBODY* should *EVER* have their photo taken or used for *ANY* purpose with their express permission?