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Jenny odell • travel by approximation. Travel by Approximation: A Virtual Road Trip (272 pp.; preview the book on Blurb here) is the record of a trip I made across the United States by way of the internet. It began as something loosely based on a real trip I had wanted to take but never had, but soon took its own, much more reckless form. In order to travel, I made use of any sources of information I could find online, relying espeically on Google Street View, photo databases (Panoramio, Picasa, Flickr), review sites (Yelp, TripAdvisor, CitySearch, Insider Pages), and virtual tours of monuments, restaurants, hotels, etc. For one real year—almost two virtual months—I transported myself into one place after another, both by writing a travel narrative and by using Photoshop to integrate myself into photos I found online. I set several parameters for this trip in order to preserve a sense of spatial wandering as well as the integrity of my source information: 1. 2. 3.

Jenny odell • projects. Street-Viewing.fr - le moteur de recherche rapide pour Street View - (Navigation privée) Street View – Google Maps - (Navigation privée) Galerie – Street View – Google Maps - (Navigation privée) Grand Canyon – Street View – Google Maps - (Navigation privée)