Culture
Finding the Hidden Faces in Google Maps
Hey, is that soybean field looking at me?
Sometimes if you gaze into a verdant pasture, the verdant pasture gazes also into you. Angrily.
At least that's what it looks like in the above aerial shot of the "Jewish Autonomous Oblast" in far-east Russia. The cranky face peering out of the grass was spotted by the folks at Berlin's Onformative design studio. And they've found many more faces, too – because they've actually built a computer program that sifts through Google Maps with facial-recognition technology to find anthropomorphic features.