Google street view is an interface designed to deliver geographical, navigational, and contextual information about particular places defined by the individual user. GSV is meant to be purely an analytical application, yet it garners an emotional response when the individual user views an area they find familiar.

     

     The virtual space is not going away or being diminished. I am of the generation which grew up alongside the internet. Each generation following mine own will find the virtual space as comfortable as the real world. Using the virtual space requires us to be disembodied. While we travel to hometowns and far away lands within Google Street View, we are stuck in the real physical space as a price. Culturally we should begin questioning these payoffs, not to judge ourselves, but to make us recognize the cultural shifts.

 

     LF Home is my own experience traveling through my hometown of Tull, AR where I have titled the images with my reactionary memories of the specific locations. The images that follow are a record of this event. The audience is invited to question my experience.

 

     LF is common internet shorthand for ‘looking for’. In general, when LF is used, the user is asking for other people to join them in an event or activity.