Award winning producer and film director Mark Johnson, recorded a guy on his street singing “Stand By Me.” Then he traveled around the world and recorded about 100 other local artists doing the same and he edited some of the snippets of their footage into a video. It’s just too awesome.

There is also a documentary film co-directed by Johnson, expanding on the same idea.

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This is not a burger. It’s a heart attack!

Someone has spotted what looks like some hookers on a street corner in Berkley, CA.

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Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. The new Google Earth 4.3 promises photo-realistic buildings from cities around the world, dawn to dusk views with the Sunlight feature and swoop navigation from outer space to street-level.

You can now enjoy the photo-textured cities and towns, and thousands of user-contributed buildings around the world with greatly improve performance and realism of 3D data. The amazing as well as controversial Street View, a well-known Google Maps feature is now part of Google Earth with version 4.3 and will let you easily find, discover, and plan activities relevant to a location.

Understand more about Street Views in this video

Play with the Sunlight feature and control the sun’s location relative to the Earth. While zoomed into a given city, you can watch the sunrise and sunset! This video explores the amazing new features of Google Earth 4.3.

Stopmotion video of Kurt Wenner’s pavement art in South Africa. The stopmotion was shot over 4 days using more than 40000 photographs.