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Wow...not only it is clever but also interesting.

Bringing images of the past onto a 21st century technology.

Incredible...nice to know that some apps are art and culture related.
Location voiture
2010-05-24 10:21:06

Fab - my favourite history book is Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography and this illustrates what he calls the palimpsest of London - the way history is overwritten with many of the same patterns being repeated again and again in the same locations. Beautifully well done too.
Graham Pugh
2010-05-24 11:23:22

Fantastic, what a lovely trip back in time married with the now. This could only develop more, even with old movie footage over the new?!
Paul Hames
2010-05-24 11:28:57

This reminded me of something similar done on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrabbit/galleries/72157623103181304/page2/#photo_3947916731

Love how you can see the difference between the old and new.
Hula
2010-05-24 11:34:35

Fantastic
Doug Kerr
2010-05-24 12:39:07

Totally brilliant idea.
One of the best applications I have sen.
Shame I own a Nokia X6!
fifixx
fifi
2010-05-24 13:12:14

This is just freakin' cool! Mashing digitial with the real world, and the old with the new, the mind boggles...
Nicola
2010-05-24 13:18:55

Not with a mobile, but the concept was originally developed by ART+COM Berlin: http://artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acprojects&page=6&id=38&Itemid=144&details=0&lang=en
readyletsgo
2010-05-24 13:24:41

Watch out for Time Traveller's Guide to Bristol which does have movie clips too.
Website and iPhone app out this Summer.
Sarah Cox
2010-05-24 20:06:12

Something similar using Google Street View. A decent amount of London pics to be browsed.

http://thesepiatownblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-feature-thennow-view.html
ericlehnartz
2010-05-25 01:57:03

I really like, but it's not fear that I can't download from another countries accounts.
Don't look like we live in a globalized world.
at least I can see some pics here at CR.
Débora Klippel
2010-05-25 13:35:41

Wonderful! Any ideas if there are plans to extend to other areas of the country?
Emma
2010-05-25 18:14:44

It seems it's not available for other countries... Really a pitty!
Constantinos
2010-05-25 20:00:32

Is this available in Australia at all - particularly Melbourne?
Rebecca
2010-05-26 03:45:06

Wow, that is beautiful. How fantastic that the user can flick between historical images of the city and 3D augmented reality. I hope that other museums around the world make use of their collections in such an innovative and accessible way.
Hannah
2010-05-26 07:39:20

The apps developers are pulling out the stops with the simplest, and delightful of ideas. Bip
bip Mistry
2010-05-26 08:26:31

This is fantastic!
Karon
2010-05-26 18:59:17

These are beautifully done. The flickr examples are superb also.
I created something vaguely similar some years ago using Flash...
http://www.vakart.co.uk/thennow/s1.htm
http://www.vakart.co.uk/thennow/s2.htm
http://www.vakart.co.uk/thennow/s3.htm
Tim
2010-05-26 19:23:38

This reminds me of the psychogeography projects I did when studying my degree in sound art. We had to walk around the street making sound recordings about the areas we walked through and think about how those areas have been influenced and changed over time, interesting app.
rich
2010-05-27 12:01:07

when i saw flickr then and now i started trying to use adobe photoshop to over lay. a friend has done one for me, but i still can't figure out how to do it myself. still hoping friend will teach me. no iphone. why can't the apps be use on my mac?
i love the idea and i am trying to use old family pictures.
james sonntag
2010-05-27 16:21:14

Print strikes back: W+K's Platform contingent has made an "analogue augmented reality tour" of the East End, called Ball of Chalk (rhyming slang for 'walk').

See some images, here:

http://wklondon.typepad.com/welcome_to_optimism/2010/05/ball-of-chalk.html
 Mark Sinclair
2010-05-27 16:54:24

Love it! The images are like looking at both extremes of a parallel universe! ;)
Jolt
2010-05-27 23:22:20

great app, really great app - I would like to see the project extended further with image categories and themes like the blitz on london, paintings of J A McN Whistler's 'Nocturns', 50/60/70's music scenes, infamous crime scenes such a Jack the Ripper & the Krays etc.

So much potential, so little....? actually, so little what? why not extend it?
Jayenne Montana
2010-06-08 09:47:52

Does anyone else think this is eerily ghostly? I feel chilly just looking at these images. Most splendid.
Victoria Archer
2010-06-08 10:37:52

What an excellent use of the Smartphone and it's abilities! I've been doing asimilar thing with postcards for years, and wish you could buy the original images. It's really inspiring!

Here's my postcard set of cards taken at the same place many years later http://www.flickr.com/photos/andytgeezer/sets/72157618661929518/
Andy REAL wall
2010-10-22 13:02:15

Great APP

Have you heard of the Retroscope? http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/category/technology/photography/
Francisco Lorca
2010-12-08 12:12:48

Congratulations!
Happy to see more people using the immersive potential of the smart phone for art.

A similar app for Paris:
http://www.ImpressionistParis.com
Julia
2011-03-02 16:57:32

This is so brilliant! Makes walking around my favourite city all the more magical!

Jenine
2011-04-27 12:30:00

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