Dead pixel in Google Earth
March 27th, 2009“Dead pixel in Google Earth” by Helmut Smits, 82 x 82 cm burned square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km.
EDIT: You can’t find this so called pixel in Google Earth, it is conceptual piece of art.
March 27th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Hahahahahahaha.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am
xD nice…
March 27th, 2009 at 10:31 am
wierd idea :P
March 27th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Redelijk geniaal, toch!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Funny weird idea ^_^
Where is it??
March 27th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Just hope he got that square in the exact place or it could be between 2~4 pixels, and then it doesn’t work =[
March 27th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Geniaal inderdaad
March 27th, 2009 at 11:32 am
How is that one pixel? It depends on the resolution of the camera you are using!
March 27th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@Tiberius This has nothing to do with the camera resolution, but with the scaling of google earth.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Genius.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Ok, now give us a link to google maps with the exact coords
March 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am
@Yes This is just a conceptual piece.
March 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hahahahahaha! Respect!
March 27th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I spy a new potential business, selling pixel replacement patches, the three letter achronym prp.
Any investors interested?
March 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I wonder if he aligned the edges with true north…
March 27th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
it woud really be cool if we can really see it from google earth LOL
March 27th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
How about this Graham – i’ll go halves on a field with you and we can sell each 82×82cm “pixel” off to gambling and porn sites!
March 27th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
That is just so stupid….
March 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Very nice!!!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Why?
March 27th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
link please
March 27th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
there is no google earth link, it is art
March 27th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
That is rubbish! :O
March 27th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
hahaha thats awesome, one of the most creative things ive stumbled upon in a very long time.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Apparently there is a limitless amount of interest in meaningless trivia.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
ahahah this is so classic!
March 28th, 2009 at 12:10 am
fucking genious
March 28th, 2009 at 12:36 am
[...] Pixel Muerto desde Google Earth Publicado por:: Napaboy in Arte/Dise, Fotografia, Internet Cusioro “pixel muerto ” en el mundo real siempre y cuando se vea a una altitud de 1 Km. mide 82×82 centimetros y via google earth se verÃa como un pixel muerto en la pantalla, creado por Helmut Smits. Via [...]
March 28th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Brilliant!
March 28th, 2009 at 1:26 am
“meaningless” is perception. People doing things that others find useless is how most great discoveries in this world were made. If nobody did anything “unusual”, we’d still be cave-dwellers. We all have something to learn from people who think outside the socially imposed boundaries of thought.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Surprised there’s not already an add for GoldenPalace there, lol.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:49 am
i love internet comments, someone cuts their grass and the whole internet starts freaking out why its cool/dumb/gay/heyfuckyoubuddy. Everyone on here that says things like
# Joe Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Apparently there is a limitless amount of interest in meaningless trivia.
# Concerned Guy Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I wonder if he aligned the edges with true north…
# pepeto Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
That is just so stupid….
your opinion doesnt matter here, this isnt real life this is 0101010100011101101000101101001011. so give it up.
Oh and on the picture. Haha holy shit thats bad ass wish i thought of that
March 28th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Very cool find! Great idea as well, wish I thought of it! :P
March 28th, 2009 at 4:32 am
Welcome to the Internets Joe
March 28th, 2009 at 5:02 am
This would have been somewhat cool had you done it and waited for the sat pic to update.. Now it is just a burned out hole in the ground. awesome.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:12 am
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March 28th, 2009 at 7:03 am
So, where exactly is this located? I’d like to verify on google maps.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Stumbleupon never seems to fail to amuse me. This is one of the most creative things I’ve seen in a while.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 am
One Human Minute, preface by Stanislaw Lem, written by a computer.
An accident… A superficial analogy, but I am afraid that it is not.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Great Idea, however why not place a GPS on the “Dead Pixel” site and then you would that piece of the puzzle that would elevate this from “prank” to Art, and yes advertising through “Multiple Dead Pixels” would be feasible.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:29 am
lol, very funny!
March 28th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Some report the bug to Google? XD
March 28th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Since this piece of conceptual art represents a fundamental property of the screens of the internet how would you represent a url in the same artistic way in the physical world?
March 28th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Nice one. Looks like an xkcd joke.
March 28th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I like this, what are the co-ordinates for it?
I might try and look for it.
March 28th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
wohow .. very funny
March 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Nice idea. Very nice idea.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I found 8 of them, can I now change my earth?
March 28th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
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March 28th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Great idea. Very funny
March 28th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I’m selling ad space in my back yard.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I’m with you on that xznophod. Selling your yard for ad space is a great idea.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
You killed the funny when you had to explain it :(
/me grieves for the funny
March 29th, 2009 at 12:04 am
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March 29th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Or is it a bug in the Matrix?
March 29th, 2009 at 1:26 am
I agree! such an easy way to make money. $.$ just sell a maybe, 85×85 pixel (however many feet/inches that may be.) and bang! advertisers will snatch it up!
March 29th, 2009 at 2:53 am
that quality mate.
March 29th, 2009 at 4:17 am
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March 29th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Selling adspace on ur lawn really seems like the next big thing .
March 29th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Photoshopped. I use it all the time and I can tell. the shadows are all wrong.
March 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Back in the 80s I had a summer job spraying herbicide with a back-pack manual sprayer. One day I hung my work jacket on my mother’s clothesline and it rained. There was a ‘dead pixel’ in the lawn for the rest of the year. It wasn’t quite square though.
March 29th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
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March 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
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March 29th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
It’d be funny if one of those uptight google employees located this spot and used the healing brush in photoshop.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Greetings from joemonster.org
March 30th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Try turning it of and on again…
March 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am
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March 31st, 2009 at 1:23 am
Nice concept!
March 31st, 2009 at 5:42 am
Pretty cool. Do wonder if the brain,which is capable of such things, would patch the missing pixel and then I wonder how many pixels it wouldn’t patch.
March 31st, 2009 at 6:43 am
all of you are geeks
March 31st, 2009 at 7:50 am
[...] “dead pixel” pra ser visto do Google Earth é um trabalho do artista Helmut Smits: http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/03/27/dead-pixel-in-google-earth/ Esta entrada foi escrita por interaubis e postada em 31/0309 at 0203/19 e arquivada em poeresia. [...]
March 31st, 2009 at 8:42 am
It would be awesome if you really could see it from Google earth. The idea is a good one though, maybe someone will take it to another level.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:52 am
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March 31st, 2009 at 12:38 pm
the 100000th person to just use a lame square as so-called art.
i wish they’d get a clue.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Touche, Google!
April 1st, 2009 at 12:56 am
I hope he got the orientation right or he is going to end up with a diamond shaped dead pixel…..
April 1st, 2009 at 2:30 pm
quite interesting
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 am
Just awesome. I hope it is in RGB.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Excellent !
April 6th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
You, sir(?), are a genius.
April 8th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Hahaha amazing! ;)
April 11th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
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April 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Fantastic piece of art
April 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Hahahahaha… That’s brilliant! should record the coordinates and keep repeating the “artwork” until it really does become a dead pixel on Google Earth :)
Great concept however!
April 17th, 2009 at 3:32 am
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April 17th, 2009 at 11:54 am
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April 18th, 2009 at 12:42 am
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April 20th, 2009 at 1:40 am
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April 23rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
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April 26th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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May 1st, 2009 at 11:57 am
Rofl
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
We could get real creative and leave google a message.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
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July 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
There is people leaving messages to google on their houses. You can find many examples just searching on google.
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:21 am
worth a chuckle. Thanks for the post.
December 26th, 2009 at 6:18 am
sweet….
January 14th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Great idea… but I’m afraid no grass does not mean dead, did they get all the worms out, or am I taking it to literally :)
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March 1st, 2010 at 3:54 am
[...] Smits figures that an 82 cm x 82 cm square would be the same as one pixel when looking down 1km up. So he burned a square in the exact dimensions in order to make a dead pixel in Google Earth. It's too bad you cannot see it until Google snaps the picture with their all-seeing satellite. Helmut Smits' dead pixel [...]
March 13th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
oooohhh. so he brought a computer glitch to life? weird.