I live in Oakland, at a low point, and I have no view of Sutro Tower whatsoever.

I'm close, but not close enough. So close that it feels like this task mocks me. Why must it mock me so? Since it's not like I'm sitting in a loft in Madrid or Buenos Aires, and the good ideas for views from afar have been taken, I've come up with a new idea. Well, not new since the idea is mentioned in the comments for Kristen's completion of the task, but new in that it takes the evil technology and takes it to more interestingly disturbing extremes of surveillance.

And how could I resist a chance to sit in the comfort of my protective shell behind my glowing computer screen and to create an abomination using a browser and Photoshop (and, technically, Imageready). MUAHAHAHAHA!

So here's what I did....

I jumped into Google maps (again) and zoomed down into SF. Then I went into the much-maligned Street View. I chose vantage points surrounding the Tower that had some kind of view of the tower. Here's a link to the first one:

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I zoomed, copied, pasted, and then found another point.

As I continued, I was able to collect eleven separate views that I then resized and centered and layered and animated.

It's a little jerky, but you get the idea.