And She Moved Through the World... A Google Earth Tour

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Tour by Angeline Bautista

Music by Chris Gonzalez

*Please make sure you have Google Earth downloaded*

This Google Earth Tour takes you to the very famous landmarks of the World that I would like to travel to someday.  It begins on the location of our classroom, in the Fine Arts building of San Francisco State University.  Then off we travel to these locations:

• Mount Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota, United States of America
• Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
• Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
• Vatican City, Rome, Italy
• Pyramids of Giza, Eygpt
• Taj Mahal, Agra, India
• Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Japan
• St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow, Russia
• World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan, New York, United States of America

After visiting those locations we come right back to where we start ed, in the Fine Arts Building.

The music that accompanies the tour, is a rendition of David Graham's "And She Moved Through the Fair," played live while the tour was recorded, by my boyfriend.  I chose to play this particular song because it sounds very adventurous and good music for travelling.  Also this song explores similarities that "Eastern" and "Western" music are, and that there was a connection between the two seemingly different musical worlds.  And with the tour, I explore places in both the Western world and Eastern world.

Google Earth Artists

Researching a little on artists who use Google Earth as a source or medium, I found two particular artists that use Google Earth in interesting ways.

Google Earth Landscape Art
The first artist I found was Evert Schut.  He paints oil landscapes, but with a different perspective: an aerial, satellite view of landscapes.  He paints these landscapes with a some abstraction, but the vibrant colors and the natural patterns and shapes that occur in earthforms make the piece look more than just a landscape.

Where on Earth is Waldo?
Just as the title implies, this artist created a virtual game of Where's Waldo.  Melanie Coles create a fifty-four foot long painting of Waldo, and set him up on a rooftop, in hopes of getting his snapshot taken by Google Earth.    She also made instructions for her Waldo open source, so that many other people can create their Waldo's and set him up all over the world.