Gloogel Street View does have its uses!
Google, its owner, adores it.
Some members of the real estate fraternity like it.
It saves them from having to personally perform their own diligent due diligence.
And Saskatoon musician Nate Heagy really likes it. 
He publishes his work under a Creative Commons license and on his music web page says he released Run Away ahead of his upcoming album “so I could get some experience beforehand”.
He goes on >>>
There’s a lot of steps I wanted to figure out, from making a final mix to promoting the release. I’ve already learned a lot I wouldn’t have otherwise.
It’s also a good way to test out new ideas. Here’s one such experiment: Run Away is now available for free in full quality. Go ahead and download yourself a copy. The song is still available on iTunes to purchase for anyone that wants to support the band.
My second idea is one I care a bit more about. Fear Salesman is a socially conscious band and I’d like to make that aspect of the music a little more explicit. So from now on 20% of all sales for Run Away will be given to Child Find. Helping missing children has long been a cause I’ve believed in and is a perfect fit to be the first charity I can assist with my music. Now iTunes purchases support both the band and a worthy charity.
So checkout the free download, read about Child Fild and, as always, let me know what you think.
And speaking of new ideas, he also found away to usefully employ Gargoyle’s Street view.
“Promoting a band is hard,” the CBC has him saying.
While he was working on the album, he’d been trying to think of how to get noticed, he states.
So, “When Google announced that Street View was coming to Saskatoon, a light bulb went on,” he says in the story, going on, “I figured Saskatoon’s not that big, I could probably find the Google car if I really wanted to. “So I built a sign, and kept it in the trunk of my car.”
Eventually, Nate spotted the SnoopMobile and “I quickly set up the sign, brought out the guitar and started playing,” the story quotes him as saying , continuing, “And the car drove by. And then I actually drove on to another corner and did the same thing.”
That was in the spring and when Google “launched Saskatoon’s Street View in November,” Heagy says he went to the and, “I just hollered and was cheering because it was a lot of effort and a long wait to see if it had even worked, this crazy idea I had.
“There it was. It was kind of fulfilling.”
Jon Newton
December 11th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Now that’s thinking outside the box!
December 11th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
cool!
December 11th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
But every band can’t do this! ….just kidding.
This is a great idea, but seriously…every band can’t do this. I think the take away lesson though is to do something unique and original.
December 11th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Reminds me of the guys who made a video using the spy cameras England has.
December 11th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Reminds me of how Melissa Etheridge launched herself.
She walked through thousands of Toronto streets, with her guitar in full swing, letting everyone hear her from almost sunrise to sundown. It didn’t take a few days before she was grabbed by CityTV and allowed to promote herself to a wider audience.
Bottom line: It wasn’t the “gimmick” that worked. She was performing “live” without a studio, and she was genuinely GOOD!
December 11th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
The cream always rises to the top — doesn’t matter what media.
Cheers!
December 11th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
@monkey “spy cameras?” … lol.. do you mean CCTV?
December 11th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
“Spy cameras” is a pretty accurate description of what they are, techically and otherwise.
December 11th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
@Devil
Yeah, England thinks 1984 was a tech manual.
December 11th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
tee hee. But, it’s not as bad as ‘google street view’
CCTV isn’t quite as intrusive (IMO) like, my street is on google street view, but, CCTV is only around the corner at the train station 
lol
Lest we want to believe it or not, everyone who has a mobile phone is being tracked. Every street is potentially under surveillance and the rather obvious ’spy camera’ can only spin through it’s cycle (you can still dodge that camera if you keep an eye on it).
It’s either you live up in the Alps in Switzerland and raise goats and tend to a live crop, or, you live in the new era of google street view and mobile phones. Big Brother…he’s here 
It’s all part of the program. Good in case of extremes, not particularly cool for privacy (if you have anything to hide). But, at least their not in our toilets yet 
December 12th, 2009 at 2:53 am
@Indy:
Fixed it for ya.
(Note: it’s “surveillance”)
Deleted 2 posts
- DA
December 12th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
@Indiana
I’s say it’s worse, google street view is just some dude going around in a car taking still shots, probably at MOST once a year. The brit cameras are rolling 24/7 all year long. I can choose not to carry a cell phone, or to shut it off.
As far as “having something to hide” every jack booted dictatorship past and present uses that as an excuse to pry into people private lives. My attitude towards busybody, nosy people and or governments has always been “fuck off”.
December 12th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
@monkey agreed. Although, you know the pros and cons. They don’t watch the camera until they need to. Since crimes in the UK are not ‘gun’ oriented, they happen at a closer distance to the victim. (knives, and/or direct contact). So, it kinda works ok here. Most people are only going to get caught picking their nose unless there is a reason to actual go through the footage (due to a crime).
December 12th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
@DA ta for the fix and deletion. Now, if you could, please find a WP plugin for spell check…lol
December 14th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
If you pay attention to how much spy technology is being installed everywhere, and all the new capabilities they continue to demand from it, you do have to ask yourself “how much is enough, and how much is too much?”…
http://thecomingnewworldorder.blogspot.com/
December 15th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Indiana:
I’m presently posting from the Crown pub in Borehamwood, North London… where there is a CCTV camera in the men’s toilets… You were saying again…? Although at least here I’m allowed to plug in to electric power, the Hart and Spool (Wetherspoon establishment down the road) asked me to leave last week for doing that, on the basis that “Wifi internet is provided here, but not electricity…”
Go figure
John
December 15th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@DA too true. Big Brother is here. I’m going to move to a farm in the Alps and make goat’s cheese!
December 16th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@john barron lol.. Ok, they are in the toilets now!! OMG