#Stampwalking
Changing post-landscape
A never-ending hunger for image-making and the extreme urge to capture everything, Google’s Street View takes photographs to shape our expectations. It removes, ignores and disobeys the ethics and aesthetics of photography. Instead, Street View simply captures information. Only to comply Google’s mission statement, “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Street View photography seems indifferent, artless and insignificant. We rely on the information it captures. Street View lets us visit places from the safety of our home. We use it to explore foreign places before we physically enter them. However, we are unimpressed when the information gathered in our virtual expeditions turns out to be wrong.
How can we rely on digital information when the world around us changes faster than the 360-degree Street View cameras can capture? Do we really want a corporation to organize and decide the value of the world’s information?
Take control over your information. Be surprised of the outside world, explore, take a hike, send a postcard. Make sure to put a stamp on it.
What’s a stamp?
Why do I have to pay?
My post on Instagram is free!
That stamp tells a story, what the hell, create your own stamps to tell your own story. Be unique.
Whatever you share on that postcard stays on that postcard. It becomes part of the world’s information, but only those who have touched it have knowledge of the information.
Collect the memories you receive from others, send a postcard home when you want to collect your own memories. Collect the stamp, in a world of #fake it proves the memory is real.
But how do you send a postcard when all the mailboxes are gone?
Street View won’t give you the answer.
