Wednesday 16 March 2011

one hundred and fifteen

The Museum of London has made me want to buy an iphone.

They've launched an app, StreetMuseum, which guides users to various points in London where, via the iphone screen, historical images of the city appear.

Like this.




 
The word palimpsest describes a manuscript page from which text has been scraped off, so that it can be used again. These images are reverse palimpsests, then: the past refound and layered again on the surface.

2 comments:

  1. This is amazing. I actually have nothing else to say about this. Amazing.

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  2. omg!! that is just so so so so so cool. i wish i was living in london now just to use that app!

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