the street archive · concept 2016 · app 2026
I
Street
Murals get buffed. Buskers move on. I♥Street refuses to let it vanish: art, music, food, geo-tagged, pinned to the map, time-stamped.
The wall changes. The record survives.
Three sectors, one grid
01 · ART
Murals, tags, paste-ups: pinned, attributed.
02 · MUSIC
Buskers: schedules, listen links, tip jar.
03 · FOOD
Carts and trucks: menus, hours, pickup.
Try it here
Not a video: the real app, compiled to the web. Maps stay native-only; use the lists.
Live build · tap through it · maps are native-only
The terminal
Boots like a CRT. Every mural, busker, truck: a numbered record.
Operators claim their records: schedules, menus, orders, tips, commissions.
Each capture: dated, geo-locked. Enough of them: a rephotographic record of the city. Nobody else collects it.
TestFlight next
Fig. 01: the terminal
Fig. 02: sectors 01–03
Records
Fig. 03: field manual
How to use it
01 — Boot
three sectors, one terminal.
02 — Pick a sector
walls, buskers, carts, pinned.
03 — Open a record
profile, data sheet, history.
04 — Align + capture
Google Street View above, your camera below.
05 — Ghost
fade until the walls match.
06 — Shoot
dated, geo-locked, onto the wall's timeline.
07 — Rewind
scrub back through every capture.
08 — Support
tip, order pickup, commission.
A decade in the keeping
2016
Three domains
iheartstreet.art, .music, .food: a time-layered archive over the city.
2025
One app
One React Native app: five screens, maps, camera, GPS. Shelved at 75%.
2026
The instrument
Un-shelved, reskinned in phosphor. Align + Capture: rephotography. 36 San Francisco records, live in the browser.
For partners
The data room: plan, deck, dossier, exit thesis. One download.
The field test
First fifty operators get the terminal early.
TestFlight opens seeded with San Francisco. Your handle stays on the records you log.
One email when TestFlight opens.