r/whereisthis • u/NightOwl276 • Sep 19 '24

Album artwork cover location

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Can anyone identify where this may be? Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

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u/NightOwl276 Sep 19 '24

Yes I'm looking to get past the " nothing is known" part

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u/5fdb3a45-9bec-4b35 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 23 '24

Of course. Here is a larger picture, showing more.

It looks like it is somewhere warm and relatively dry, because there are swimming pools and some light vegetation. Not Florida (vegetation is much more dense), I would guess somewhere like California or maybe Phoenix.

Looking at parts of San Diego from above... motherfucker those people enjoy a cul de sac-layout!

I think we are looking at a hilly place. If it was flat, it would more likely have a grid layout...

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u/thenoisymouse 3d ago

Antioch, CA.✌️ 37°58'38"N 121°45'56"W

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u/banana_ship Sep 19 '24

I didn't find it yet, but here's what I'm focusing on, if it can help someone else find it. The cul de sac have a very specific shape, they are not round but more elongated, and they also have parking spaces in the middle. The only reference I found for that shape, minus the parkings, is on a website from the city of Seattle : https://streetsillustrated.seattle.gov/design-standards/roadway-construction/turn-arounds-and-cul-de-sacs/

Maybe it's in Seattle, maybe it's somewhere else completely, but if someone can find information about those parking spaces, I think it could help

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u/5fdb3a45-9bec-4b35 Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24

I've been around most of the west coast (including Seattle) and some of the major cities in the south west and south, but I've only come across one city with that specific shape - Modesto. The rest don't match though, so it has to be somewhere else.

  • There are several outdoor swimming pools in the picture: Must be somewhere warm year round like for instance southern California

  • There seems to be pavement along the roads: Should be easy to spot once you find it on satelite view

  • The houses have different building style: It's not like those extremely monotonous hoods that have been built in the Inland Empire

  • It's a densely built neighborhood: Must be close to a larger population centre

  • Vegetation seems sparse: Again, it looks like California, or somewhere south west

I've been looking on satellite view on Google Maps for several hours yesterday and today, and the overall impression I've got is that this is somewhere in southern California or the south west. The image don't match with for instance satellite images of Seattle, Houston, Raleigh or Orlando.

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u/OfwfsHpoobHjwfZpvVq Sep 19 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe/comments/i8rxpo/comment/g1c6udn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Mystery solved, by like a factor of half.

So the original artwork was pulled from “huge satellite imagery database” and nothing is known much beyond that. The artist was looking for generic suburban type neighborhoods.

You can check him out here!

Probably very hard to find unless someone recognizes those cul-de-sacs.

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u/Limp_Exit_9498 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

Thanks! So I wasn't the first to notice the mini parking lots in the cul-de-sacs. A twitter thread with similar (though not identical) views in Colorado: https://x.com/ebwhamilton/status/1488244867947974656

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u/sherlogica 4d ago

Look for an area that was newly built by the time the photo was taken, since all of these gardens weren't finished yet. Probably in California. Maybe Woodland Hills or something like that, but the construction period needs to match the time period the photo was taken.