THE PAST WILL HAUNT YOU
Jan. 29th, 2009 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via Warren Ellis]: Here’s a collection of awesome photos by Sergei Larenkov, who took WW2-era photographs from Leningrad, reshot them in the present day from their original perspectives, and then blended them together.
Like so:
Which I mention chiefly because I recently finished Willam Gibson’s Spook Country, which – among other things – proposes that artists could combine GPS and virtual reality technologies to create “locative art”. Strap on a VR helmet with a GPS chip in it and you could see 3D recreations of historical events and people superimposed on the reality in front of you based on yr exact location in the GPS grid.
These photos strike me as an interesting example of what that might look like.
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Like so:
Which I mention chiefly because I recently finished Willam Gibson’s Spook Country, which – among other things – proposes that artists could combine GPS and virtual reality technologies to create “locative art”. Strap on a VR helmet with a GPS chip in it and you could see 3D recreations of historical events and people superimposed on the reality in front of you based on yr exact location in the GPS grid.
These photos strike me as an interesting example of what that might look like.
You are there,
This is dF
