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Interstate 80 Organized by Color (with mileage)
2009
Digital print, variable size
This print consists of fragments of Interstate 80, as seen from satellite, organized by color. I started in San Francisco and ended in New Jersey, spanning the entirety of Interstate 80, and took a screenshot every time the color of the road changed significantly. The numbers below each fragment indicate the number of miles from San Francisco, so that fragments with smaller numbers were closer to the beginning.
Often times the color changes occurred when the road passed from one (for example, generally greenish) satellite view into another starkly different (perhaps bluish) one, since Google Satellite is a cobbling together of imagery taken from different satellites with different cameras.
Just curious: As you took clips from Route 80 did you find any hitchhikers, funeral processions, flat tires, double-decker London tour buses, monster trucks, national guard caravans, fatal accidents, motorized lifeboats, 1955-57 Thunderbird retreats, trailered modular-home components, electric M-1 tanks, Popemobiles, purple Hispano-Suizas, Julian Schnabel-painted Mercedes SLKs, jet cars, prairie schooners, Rolling Stones, chariots, Izettas, tar-sand extractors, snow plows, MIRVs, armadillo migrations, boots on the ground? Just curious.