[Ann Drysdale]

I, too, have found something lovely. This is the work of a German student, Erkam, and I thank him for it (I even "bought him a coffee").

This is me, driving all over the world in the car I never had, totally in control. I can turn off the radio, turn on the ambient street sound, slow the car down and gawp at the view.

Join me?

https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com...3tOd_BMupKvdTs

[Jim Moonan]

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This is going to take me to my muse, this one. Thanks for the ride.

It's an always enjoyable phenomenon to have things coalescing around certain subjects, as they are here on the Sphere lately. In this case, the links to radio stations playing around the world, the driving experience of this link of being in a capsule called a "car/auto" and driving through the streets of the world, and Mark's "Real Quiet" poem on Met that both tugs at and resists them (radio, car, world).


I have always loved navigating Google Earth. In some places you can actually zoom in to street level and use your mouse/touch pad to navigate the streets in a kind of drunken stop-start-lurching kind of way. Here in Boston and environs I've seen the Google cars driving the streets with an eyeball camera perched on the roof of the car filming the street level view. It's an eerie sight to see.

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[Orwn Acra]

It hurts my heart.*

*In a good way.

[Martin Elster]

That's pretty neat, Annie. Thanks.

[Ann Drysdale]

I am glad some other people like this, too. It takes me to places without overstepping the boundaries of propriety. It shows me enough, but not too much.

Jim, I share your interest in Google Earth, but I have mixed feelings about Street View. For a long time my little cul-de-sac has been accessible in that medium, but it has recently been updated, presumably with better cameras, and now Google peers into my living room window. I find this a bit unsettling, to say the least. But then, things (as you say) coalesce, and my own "Boat" poem more or less forgives them. Like Martin Luther, they could do no other.

[Jim Moonan]

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Ha! Ahoy!
I've never been the kind of person to look into windows from the outside. Looking out of windows from the inside, yes — I do that all the time. I think I'll go do that now : )
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