Top, photograph by Andrew Norman Wilson & Shane Lavalette, from the series Nobodaddies, 2026. Via. Bottom, Vladislav Markov, LOCATION.LOCATION.LOCATION., 2026, Installation: kitchen, screen, video, carpet, 2 lamps, brown floor cover, Video duration 43'23'', on view at Bernheim Gallery, Zürich. Via.
David Pryor Adickes was an American sculptor and painter born in Huntsville, Texas. He is best known for A Tribute to Courage, the sixty-seven-foot statue of Sam Houston, the first and third president of the Republic of Texas, erected in Adickes’s hometown on the northbound side of I-45 in 1994. That same year, a drive to Mount Rushmore inspired Adickes to embark on his most ambitious undertaking: a series of two-ton, eighteen-to-twenty-foot concrete-and-steel busts of every U.S. president. He ended the series in the early twenty-first century with President Barack Obama. Adickes passed away at the age of ninety-eight in the summer of 2025.
Orchestra, a 10-month-old company, has set up more than 100 street-facing cameras across the city, giving it live coverage of areas including SoMa, the Tenderloin, North Beach and the Marina. It plans to place 900 more cameras across the city's main commercial corridors over the next six months.
The pitch is something like Google Search, but for city streets. "It's a search engine for the physical world," said cofounder and chief operating officer Stephania Stavropoulos.
Orchestra installs free street-facing cameras on private businesses' properties. The cameras stream high-definition video around the clock, and AI converts the footage into structured data, identifying objects, vehicles, and incidents. Cofounder and CEO Drake Burciaga called the footage the "Erewhon of data" because of its premium quality.
Rya Jetha, from This startup wants to turn the world into a searchable video feed, starting in San Francisco, for Business Insider, July 2, 2026.
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