lovehatenyc

A multimedia artist living in New York created an awesome project called lovehateNYC "that chronicles a personal love-hate relationship with New York City".

When you enter the site, you are presented with the artists' map of Manhattan where you can select an area of the island and read changing lines of incohesive text. Next pick a specific location in that area and are you are brought to a beautiful 360 degree view of that spot, which is not unusual I know, but what is cool is that when you stop the rotational view at any point the image begins to cycle through a sort of blended stop motion of activity. Slowly the people and cars fade through their movements.

The Bowery & 2nd one shows you the day before CBGB's closed blend into its final night before becoming a vacant space the next day. The 'key' in the map shows how the colours on the map correspond to the love/hate scale (Times Square lands on the hate end of things, of course) and each scene is introduced with a few words from the artist.

It's like being in a disconnected dream of New York - something I really enjoyed, so I hope you do too.

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