Love in street art isn’t like love in Hallmark cards.
Street artists push the boundaries of love and what Valentine’s Day can be about.
I don’t claim to have done the definitive Love in Street Art study but I’ve made a start. As usual, my source is the Google Street View database, all the street art recorded either by the Google-Cam on the Google-Car or by private individuals, like me, who have uploaded hi-resolution 360 degree images.
I use the images in two ways. One is to simply make one image the entire view, as if we are standing right where the Google-Camera took that exact picture. In the AltspaceVR social VR platform, this technique is referred to as a Skybox. Like Jim Carrey was under all the time in The Truman Show.
The same image recorded by the Google-Cam can also be made into a smaller version of the Skybox called a Photosphere, which has one important difference —it’s an object, a sphere with an image mapped to the inside.