‘Streetghosts’ street graffiti
Bizarre Streetghosts street graffiti by Paolo Cirio
Google’s Street View has been repurposed by street artist Paolo Cirio in a graffiti project dubbed ‘street ghosts’](http://streetghosts.net/). Italian artist Cirio – who clearly believes imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – reuses blurred-out images of pedestrians who appear within Google’s Street View snaps, prints them life-size and then applies them to walls in urban settings.
Many of the images are reapplied at the same location as where the original photos were taken. Cirio has said he’s making a politic point, since he believes those originally photographed within Street View weren’t properly consulted. ‘I exposed the specters [sic] of Google’s eternal realm of private, misappropriated data,’ he says on his website. ‘The bodies of people captured by Google’s Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion.’
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