Artist Creates “Where’s Waldo?” Easter Egg for Google Earth

Posted by Shabana on April 15, 2008
Filed under: News, Vancouver

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A young artist and web designer has created a game that she hopes will take off. Melanie Coles has hidden an enormous 55 ft painting of Waldo – the nerdy, lanky spectacled character clad in a red and white striped top and cane, from the Waldo books - on a rooftop of an undisclosed location in Vancouver, in the hope that it will be picked up by Google Earth satellites.

Aerial Building

The location of the painting is top secret, and the anticipation of when it will show up on Google Earth is part of the fun, Melanie says. Since Google Earth does not publicize their schedule, no one knows when Waldo will show on a computer screen somewhere. The project has sparked off an international buzz with net users, who are keen to be the first to spot Waldo.

Melanie hopes that by making Waldo available to all through an open source program and template, she can set off a game that will spread virally to become an international hit. Her dream is of a “Where’s Waldo?” game being played across the globe as people begin creating and hiding their own Waldos in their cities.

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Comments

Mark Schoneveld
April 15th, 2008 - 5:21 pm

That’s awesome. Straight up!


lauren
April 16th, 2008 - 10:23 am

found the location. but no waldo yet!!!


Kat
April 28th, 2008 - 8:32 pm

If I hid him in my city of 600 or so people, I think he would stick out like a sore thumb.


Greg
May 12th, 2008 - 9:44 am

Its wheres wally not wheres waldo..


Smarter than Greg
May 13th, 2008 - 2:02 am

-Greg- You are the embodiment of the word idiot.


Charlie
May 15th, 2008 - 5:22 am

I have to agree with greg, as the Where’s Wally books were a vital part of my childhood i know that the initial release of the franchise was in the UK and later released in america where they changed it to Where’s Waldo, the american version did rise to fame much better than the UK version but maybe this was because there are many more people in america, this may also be the reason why Greg was called an idiot because not so ‘Smarter than Greg’ is himself being an idiot despite his use of one long word.
More to the point, i think this idea is great.


Miles
May 16th, 2008 - 12:19 pm

Charlie, agreed.

This would be very nice.