Friday, March 7, 2014

What can YOU see?



You made have seen this feature yesterday when it was making the rounds... Time magazine has this mind-boggling (depending on when you are looking at it) photograph from the top of the One World Trade Center.

Gothamist had some info from the news release about how Time got this panoramic shot:

[T]he magazine worked with Gigapan "to build a rotating camera that could withstand the conditions atop the tower. An eight-month process of design and construction resulted in a 13- foot-long aluminum jib that would attach to the base of the spire, and serve as a rotating arm for the camera. Over five hours of shooting, the camera produced nearly 600 images that were then stitched together digitally into a single massive ­image of everything the eye can see in all directions. Users can zoom in and out of the panoramic photo to take in the entire city."

EVG friend Pinhead zoomed toward our part of the city ...



Per Pinhead: "Shades of the old Shorpy's Con Ed pic."

Indeed!

From 1913...

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 7, 2014 at 10:15 AM

    very cool!

    I-)

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  2. RyanAvenueAMarch 7, 2014 at 12:18 PM

    This is really cool. I zoomed in all the way on my rooftop and then zoomed out all the way. Sometimes I forget how big this city is.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 8, 2014 at 4:03 PM

    This is fuckin crazy. I see OWTC from my bedroom window, so it was the first thing I looked for. Fuckin crazy. You can see the Rockaways for christ's sake. It's like being at the top deck observatory, maybe even better.

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