Uncovering Ludgate Hill: A Search for the Red Bull Athlete’s Location

finding the street from this red bull photo of red bull athlete Sebastian Keepe on google maps. Immediately based off this architecture, I knew we were going to be in the UK. From there, with these large residential buildings in the back, I assumed we were going to be in a somewhat populated city, which I narrowed down to Manchester, London, and Birmingham. From there, I really had no idea on how to filter down the city from there. So as a Hail Mary, I literally searched railing Manchester blue UK, railing London blue UK, and railing Birmingham blue UK, and hoped to see if there were any trends in any of these cities with their railings, or even to see if this specific blue railing would just show up in the search, which I didn’t. But off these search results, Birmingham had a substantial amount of blue railings in their photos, so I committed. From there, I used this crane in the background and searched tons of news articles about construction sites in Birmingham, and went through various locations, but only one location lined up, on Ludgate Hill in Birmingham, England, taking a total of 23 minutes.