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Pioneering California pop artist Ed Ruscha's Thirtyfour Parking Lots -- a series of aerial photographs of empty Los Angeles parking lots -- offers an almost alien view of the complex patterns and infrastructure of the sprawling, decentralized, car-reliant city of millions. Since then, at least three artists have updated this work using Google Maps.

Brooklyn based artist Eric William Carrol created a Flickr album of screen shots of Ruscha's original locations. As a tribute to Thityfour Parking Lots, the blog Art From Space found 33 new LA parking lots to go along with Ruscha's original 34. Lastly, visual and media artist Pascual Sisto recreated the work at Thirtyfourparkinglots.com by setting Google Maps to automatically scroll through the locations. The page is down at the moment, but maybe it'll go back up.


If it was striking in 1967 to think about the millions of cars traversing the LA roadways and converging on sites like Dodger Stadium on a daily basis, it's certainly more than a little mind-blowing in 2009 to think about how many people flock to Google everyday.