WEEK 23: Reflection
Last week’s project is one that I have wanted to complete for some time now. Recently I have found more and more examples of such projects and my interest was sparked more and more.
Originally I had wanted to use original photos, but they were hard to acquire and expensive at the same time. I then decided to use images on a CD that I collected while working at my last job. I had wanted to print them out, but my plans to do that were foiled by a comber of complications.
In the end I just overlayed the images in a digital way.
Technically I would have liked to put more effort into this project but because of humid weather and me being sick for the majority of the week I didn’t put into taking the 2010 photos as much as I would have liked it.
Overall I like what these photo mashups offer. They offer a look into the past, of how London use to be and they help us to better connect with the heritage of London that we often take advantage of and destroy.
I have many photos that I would like to match up with modern day locations, however I don’t have any geographical reference points to do so.
There are still about a dozen photos that I can match up but I just haven’t had the time (or the means) to get o their locations from across the city.
Would love to take a look at those additional images sometime and see if I can help out matching them up. It would be cool to do a Google map or something of historical photos for the city. Google Street View now allows you overlay images as well: http://mashable.com/2010/06/09/google-street-view-photos/
I have a few hundred that I can’t place but only a select few that I would really care about. I’ll have to show them to you sometime.
I saw someone who overlayed Google Street View with historical photos but I figured it was a hack or something of the sort, I didn’t realize that option was publicly available.