Google Maps: Street Ghosts

Street Ghosts is a creative take on Google's "infringement" of privacy as it takes images of people captured on Google's Street View and creates human-scaled posters out of them. These are then plastered onto the buildings - freezing the subjects in reality from where they are forever frozen online. Basically the artist is taking the idea of graffiti tagging to a entirely new level with these I-was-here-esque tags - only for other individuals.

From the artist's statement:

In this project, I exposed the specters of Google’s eternal realm of private, misappropriated data: the bodies of people captured by Google’s Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion at the precise spot in the real world where they were photographed.
Street Ghosts hit some of the most important international Street Art “halls of fame” with low-resolution, human scale posters of people taken from Google Street View. These images do not offer details, but the blurred colors and lines on the posters give a gauzy, spectral aspect to the human figures, unveiling their presence like a digital shadow haunting the real world.

I love it.