How sheep surveillance became a new online game
Google street view makes a game out of sheep hunting
Our collective fandom knows no bounds
Making a game out of sheep spotting
Google Maps is transforming the way we play I spy
Google street view makes a game out of sheep hunting
Our collective fandom knows no bounds
Making a game out of sheep spotting
Google Maps is transforming the way we play I spy
Take a moment and watch this micro-documentary on a 64-year-old Japanese woman who is sewing elaborate dolls, leaving them in the place of departed neighbors from her dying village in the valley of Shikoku. For the past decade, Ayano Tsukimi has been repopulating the remote village of Nagoro with arts-and-crafts people, sewing buttons on their eyes and coiffing their hair with yarn, because her home is becoming a ghost town. Why? Well, because, as we learn in the video, her village has dwindled down to 36 residents and doesn’t even have a general store or local school, though at one…
The least-discussed genre in videogames makes a comeback.