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In 2012 Google sold the 3D modeling software Google SketchUp. [[File:SketchUp02.jpg | 500px]][[File:SketchUp01.jpg | 800px]] This lead to the collapse of a web platform solely driven by a community of volunteer modelers. [[File:Geosummit.jpg| 1000px]] For six years they had populated the virtual globe - Google Earth - with their creations. [[File:Googleearth01.png | 800px]] [[File:Googleearth02.png | 300px]] Most volunteers continued contributing until the very end. Just before announcing the sale of Google SketchUp, Google sent a gift to its most successful and productive volunteers, whom they addressed as 'top modelers'. [[File:supermodeler.jpg | 300px]] The gift contained a 'Thank You'-postcard, a mug, a pencil case, Post-It notes and two stickers.[[File:gift01.JPG | 800px]] [[File:gift02.JPG | | In 2012 Google sold the 3D modeling software Google SketchUp. [[File:SketchUp02.jpg | 500px]][[File:SketchUp01.jpg | 800px]] This lead to the collapse of a web platform solely driven by a community of volunteer modelers. [[File:Geosummit.jpg| 1000px]] For six years they had populated the virtual globe - Google Earth - with their creations. [[File:Googleearth01.png | 800px]] [[File:Googleearth02.png | 300px]] Most volunteers continued contributing until the very end. Just before announcing the sale of Google SketchUp, Google sent a gift to its most successful and productive volunteers, whom they addressed as 'top modelers'. [[File:supermodeler.jpg | 300px]] The gift contained a 'Thank You'-postcard, a mug, a pencil case, Post-It notes and two stickers.[[File:gift01.JPG | 800px]] [[File:gift02.JPG | 900px]] In the aftermath of the platform's abrupt end, I asked several former 'top modelers' to give a gift in return. Each gift on display manifests an individual modeler’s own particular feelings and attitudes towards Google. | ||
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Student | Lasse van den Bosch Christensen |
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Featured image | File:File:DerrickSketchUp.jpg |
Work Description | Google Gift is a collection of fictive gifts addressed to Google, and each a response to a gift given by Google in first place. The gifts are suggested by former volunteers who contributed to a Google-owned platform, which eventually was sold and shut down. The gifts manifests an individual volunteer's own particular feelings and attitudes towards Google. |
Bio | Lasse van den Bosch Christensen (DK) is a graphic designer living in Rotterdam. On a theoretical and practical level his research engages digital labour, changing modes of production, and the critical aspects of crowd-sourcing. He furthermore freelances as a graphic and webdesigner addressing the border between 'code' and design. He recently established a design studio with Marlon Harder. |
URL | http://www.absentarrays.info/googlegift |
Google Gift
In 2012 Google sold the 3D modeling software Google SketchUp. This lead to the collapse of a web platform solely driven by a community of volunteer modelers.
For six years they had populated the virtual globe - Google Earth - with their creations.
Most volunteers continued contributing until the very end. Just before announcing the sale of Google SketchUp, Google sent a gift to its most successful and productive volunteers, whom they addressed as 'top modelers'.
The gift contained a 'Thank You'-postcard, a mug, a pencil case, Post-It notes and two stickers.
In the aftermath of the platform's abrupt end, I asked several former 'top modelers' to give a gift in return. Each gift on display manifests an individual modeler’s own particular feelings and attitudes towards Google.