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Street View technicians captured their usualy 360-degree photographs of the street with the unusual scenes impossible to miss and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This what is possibly the first instance of artistic expression in Google Street View officially went live in November.

The scene breakdown, a participant page and some video clips are all available on the project's Web site to make sure you do virtually no work on this lovely Monday afternoon.

Our favorites:

• Narrow Escape: Torn bed sheets form a ladder and suggest a narrow escape, but who is escaping? And from what?


• Ham: Artist Michelle Fried donned her ham suit as proof to the sign's claim—Meats here!


• Attention Chicken!: Nicolas Lampert’s monumental chicken sculpture made its first interstate road trip for Street With A View. Hailing from Milwaukee, WI, the chicken has impressed and astounded many a Mid-Westerner. Now it’s also made its mark in Pittsburgh.


• Sword Fight: Members Askarus and Twolf of the medieval battle society Angaron (Pittsburgh’s local chapter of Dagorhir Battle Games) engaged in swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat in a grassy “battle field” at the corner of Sampsonia Way and Federal Street.