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- In their project Geolocation, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman scan the public Twitter feed for tweets that are geotagged and then travel to those locations to take pictures where the original tweet was sent. The photos they produce, either online or on the wall, always have the tweet written underneath.
For both Larson and Shindelman, the process is about picking off and humanizing a few of the digital bursts that otherwise might get lost in a sea of social-media noise.
“There is so much virtual information out there and we thought there was something fascinating about memorializing one piece of it,” says Shindelman. “It gives it a life beyond this little blip and provides a real, physical, human connection.”
Most of the choices in the article are thoroughly uninspiring, but some make you think. And geotagging tweets is a concept that could be hugely expanded, I believe.