Thomson & Craighead

FLAT EARTH

Flat Earth is a desktop documentary that basically turns to world onto a flat computer screen. The project takes the viewer on a 7 minute trip around the world, telling different stories about different locations around the world from blogs on the Internet. All the blogs are put together and told kind of like a story. Most of the images taken from Flat Earth are from satellite imagery from the web. The pictures are kinda like the ones taken from Google Earth. This is with the exception of the close-up imagery from outside USA, which had to be paid for non-commercial use and a series of images taken from Flickr under Creative Commons attribution license.

Flat Earth is a really interesting trip that everyone can take around the earth. A lot of people can not just take a trip around the world so i think its really unique and cool that from this project everyone can go on their computer and take a trip around the world. I like the way that Thomas and Craighead use real peoples blogs from their experiences. By doing this straight from blogs of real people i think it would give the viewer an amazing experiences from places around the world. It helps people feel like they are really there.