No people (2015);

No People is a generative travelog that uses the Google Street View API, image recognition software via (Clarifai), concept expansion of returned phrases (Wordnik), language assemblage of historical text (via Project Gutenberg), and general combinatorial devices.

The title is taken from a commonly returned image tag, pointing at a set of strategies that Street View employs to ensure that the captured world is un-peopled.

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an open book with two screenshots from streetview

green image captioned: there seemed to be nobody outside

pavement image captioned: instant, foreshadowed danger ahead

sky image captioned: the scene is of winter, and the figures in the foreground snow are in most instances likenesses of people of the day

apartment image captioned: it is a beautiful part of this big world