Google Earth Philosophy

I've been wanting to add a page to my blog where I can delve into DEEPER THOUGHTS about Google, Earth, Art, Science, Polititics, religion, you name it. I could'nt find an easy way to add such a page to this blog, so....... I started a new blog which will be linked all over the place to this blog. It's called:

Google Earth Philosophy

Check the link: http://googleearthphilosophy.blogspot.com

At this time there's no posts, but soon there will be! I hope other authors will join me. Let me know if you're interested.

Kyle Goodridge

Kyle Goodridge has a new site. His previous site went by the name KTG creations, but he forgot to mention his name. The link has been replaced. His work is an abstraction of satellite images, and fits well under the "Google Earth Art" or "Satellite Art"label. The result reminds me of Mondriaan, but Kyle shows much more personal expression. His site is still under construction. I hope he will let us know what has ispired him to use satellite images.

Checking other Google Earth artists, I get the impression people have been working hard. I hope after the summer (that is: in the Northern hemisphere, my Southern hemisphere readers - Argenine Bolivia, Australia amongst others - are shivering in the cold I imagine) we can put up some kind of internet group show. Let me know if you want to join in!

Google Outreach and Google LatLong

Great initiative by Google in support of environment and communicating climate change.

Carl Holzman and Santiago Espeche

Carl Holzman (see link) calls his art 'abstract'. I think he fits in well with the GE-art concept wether you call it abstract or landscape. Santiago Espeche calls it 'satellite art'. I like that too. It's more objective than Google Earth art I suppose. Google is not the only company to bring out satellite imaging software. However, I feel Google deserves credit for making such a good program which, amazingly is available for free to anyone. An other nice term I think is 'earthscapes'. I'll raise the question in the GE forum.
Carl's reply on the GE forum contained a good idea: why not ask Google to sponsor a first international exhibition?
By the way, the site of Santiago Espeche (see link) can be read in English as well as Spanish (I'd missed that one). His is a wonderful poetic view of us and our planet, both in word and in visual images.

GE art on Google Earth Community Forum

Yesterday I proposed to start a new forum within the Google Earth community. So far I got one reaction. It links to an exposition of Santiago Espeche, an argentine artist, exposing at the Argentine Consulate, New York, between 6-26 March 2008. If I understand correctly these are large prints of satelite photo's. Here's a link to an article (in Spanish) about his work: http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/notas/2008/03/04/01620873.html