Google Maps Alphabets,Topography - Rhett Dashwood

Aerial Satellite Alphabets;-

Graphic designer Rhett Dashwood from Melbourne Australia scoured satellite images of his home on the internet until he had found every letter of the alphabet. The letters can be seen on buildings, bridges, rivers, trees and fields, and most would be almost impossible to recognize from ground level. It took him 6 months to complete his super-sized alphabet.

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This Google Maps typography project is from Australian designer Rhett Dashwood. He compiled the alphabet using aerial shots from actual places found in Victoria, Australia on Google Maps. 

I can't imagine how long it took Rhett Dashwood to find all of these letters just within Australia. We've featured a number of other innovative alphabet designs.

Implications - The digital world has inspired many artists to create original artworks that revolve around the world of the Web. Many are choosing to use these site as a substitute for post-production programs to bring audiences art that represents the technological generation. The capabilities of Facebook and Google Maps are endless for marketers looking to attract a generation who primarily communicate via the Internet.

"I found them exactly as you think I might have," he said. "Slowly moving from page to page over the maps and visually scanning"and "I put some simple restrictions on my project, like sticking to my home state of Victoria and not manipulating (rotating or Photoshopping) the images in any way"  !

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The luxury residential towers have been named ‘The Cloud’, with one reaching 260 metres or 54 floors and the other covering 60 floors over 300 metres. The total surface area is 128,000 sq metres.

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Underground town in South Australia

Coober Pedy is a small Australian town with population of about 2,000 people. It is well-known as an underground town. Coober Pedy is also known as the world’s opal capital with 30% global opals mined here. As for the town name, it is translated as “whitemans hole” from the Aboriginal term kupa-piti.

The severe desert climate made a lot of residents move to live underground, in caves. A cave home usually has three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and lounge that are excavated out of the rock in the hillsides. Such homes don’t require air-conditioning, because they remain at a constant temperature while summer temperatures on the surface can reach 40-50 degrees Celsius (over 100 degrees Fahrenheit).

Coober Pedy attracts tourists from all over the world. The mines, underground churches and graveyard are the most interesting attractions here. The trees you can find in this town are iron welded. You can play golf at night only to avoid hot temperatures. The local golf is free of grass that is why players take a small piece of tee-off turf with them.

Coober Pedy is featured in many movies, including Opal Dream, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Red Planet and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. NASA is planning to train astronauts for a planned mission to Mars here in 2012.

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The archeologists are going to x-ray the mummies and then open them up to see what the condition is. They hope to find something interesting that can tell them more about the finding.