1.22.2012

Kaleidoscopic New York

More fun with the Stereographic Street View hack. As it turns out, you can do a lot more than just make those cute little mini-planets. Long, low buildings, for example, can be fun to play around with. Here we are at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn:

































And, up at Viñoly's razzle-dazzle-y Hall of Justice in the Bronx:

































Skyscrapers are fun for the same reason. Here's Manhattan's GM Building (and Apple's famous Cube store):

































And Long Island City's Citi Tower, warped into something of a crooked frame:

































In fact, with the right site, these stereographic images can start to look like legit abstract art:
































And then, of course, there's the straight-up kaleidoscopic stuff. Here's the old American Banknote Building in Hunts Point:

































One of the covered sections of the High Line, near 14th Street:

































Under the 1 tracks up in Kingsbridge:

































Pier Luigi Nervi's magnificently weird bus terminal in Washington Heights:
































Inside the Met (three cheers for Street View inside major museums!)































And last, but certainly not least, on the Brooklyn Bridge:

































If anybody plays around with this thing and finds some more worth sharing, please do!

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