World-building by snapshots
Amazing that suddenly all kinds of spatio-temporal re-contextualization applications of photos seem to pop up:
First Google suddenly launch their amazing Street View (note: it’s obviously crazy practical, but what I actually find magical about it are the fuzzy transistions between the shots which obviously were taken at slightly different times and thus turn the whole thing into an enormous narrative. People and cars appear and disappear, light changes etc.) and now Microsoft come up with with Photosynth which, according to Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ presentation at TED allows you to actually recreate space from a multitude of (amateur) photographic perspectives. Kind of reminds me of this sketch from back at EuroLAB as well.
If this really works that well, it’s bound to make possible whole other uses of crowdsourcing and photography, because people would ultimately contribute to re-creating the world in digital when sharing their photos. And, there as well, the part where you see the person climbling the wall is basically creating a filmic, spatial narrative from isolated portions of time. Really struck me.
In other news, the coiner of momentography has been identified.