I have two pictures from opposites sides of the world. The first one is from Bangkok Thailand in the heart of Chinatown. I was there just last summer, it’s a crazy chaotic place, and it is very common to see parents ride with their children in this manner. The second one is from Chicago, and from the looks of it right under the L train. Perhaps this bride is going to get on the L train to go to her wedding, or perhaps she’s going to celebrate at the bar. I choose to believe the latter because that’s what I’d be doing. Walter Benjamin says, “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be,” (p.3). These two photos existed in a particular time and space, their time has passed but these images eternalize that specific moment. Google street view allows us a way to peer into the lives of other people all over the world, but in a very detached way, which I find fascinating.