SpazioTempo

I have recently released a new project. It is called SpazioTempo (Italian for Space-Time).

SpazioTempo harvests the world imagery of Google Streetview and re-proposes it in an irrational way: it substitutes the original orienting function with a random exploratory flow. SpazioTempo leverages on the fragments of Google’s representation of the world and creates an exploration that never ends.

Remember as a child pointing your finger to a random spot on a map or a globe and dreaming about travelling to a foreign land? SpazioTempo takes you on a tour of curiosity around the world. Starting from the Greenwich Royal Observatory in London (the Meridian Zero) the website lands you on a array of casually selected places, which you can further explore or immediately abandon to move to yet another random place.

Play with this geographic roulette until you satiate your desires of planetary exploration! If your wanderlust is luring you to a specific spot you have visited, SpazioTempo can zoom in on a location and you can explore it further following a winding and random path. Select the Bring me there! button when you want to switch to the local view of a spot. Press Go Global to return to the random global exploration.

SpazioTempo: http://spaziotempo.tinktank.it

Why not turning SpazioTempo into your screensaver?

Three easy steps to make it real:

1. Download one of these (free) screensavers for your system:
   • Windows: http://code.google.com/p/web-page-screensaver/
   • Mac: http://code.google.com/p/websaver/

2. Follow the instructions of the screensaver. Indicate this URL to get SpazioTempo running on your computer when it goes sleeping: http://spaziotempo.tinktank.it/screensaver.php
3. Enjoy! :)