The idea is to revisit the location of old photographs and take identical photographs, as if the camera never moved and the world changed around it. It's a little more difficult than I expected due to variations in lenses, inaccessibility of locations and a lack of constant markers.

http://ace.methodcomputers.com/ghost/

11/2/2006 4:58:20 PM

fuckin sweet. glad you have the free time to make stuff like this and the catholic orphanage thing

11/2/2006 5:00:23 PM

That is pretty amazing.

11/2/2006 5:00:30 PM

adding to my topics...

11/2/2006 5:01:29 PM

^^AND SEXY!

11/2/2006 5:02:16 PM

ill be on this....

11/2/2006 5:02:51 PM

11/2/2006 5:06:20 PM

that is fucking cool man

11/2/2006 5:09:40 PM

Nice job. What's that tall thing on Tompkins Hall (#5)?

11/2/2006 5:29:53 PM

Tompkins had a tower before it burned in the 1920's(?) The kept the brick shell when they rebuilt the building, but the tower got chopped.

Here's a photochop by ArcBoyeee:

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Nevermind, it was for a water tower, burned in 1914...

Quote :

"The original Tompkins Hall was the first textile building on campus, designed to resemble the latest turn-of-the-century cotton mills. Electrical power on the campus was not strong enough to operate the building's equipment, which included carding and spinning machines on the top floor, looms and warp preparations on the ground floor, and dyeing equipment in the basement. The building was destroyed by fire in 1914, and its successor reveals the continued influence of industrial architecture. However, the rebuilt Tompkins Hall displays Renaissance motifs in its high ceilings, central tower, roof brackets, and repeated pattern of white-outlined windows. A tower on the new Tompkins, intended to hold a water tank, was never used and, until 1928, displayed the numerals of the senior class each year. The tower was finally shortened and the building was renovated in 1981 for the humanities and social sciences. "

So I don't really know what the original Tompkins looked like. Maybe I've confusing the fire photos I've seen of Pullen Hall.

[Edited on November 2, 2006 at 5:39 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2006 5:35:31 PM

holy hell
i hope u have shown this to the university, it would make one hell of a marketing thing

im sittin here playin iron&wine with the photos changin and its extremely cool

this is amazing dude, keep up the awesome work. i hope you have plenty of time to keep this alive.

11/2/2006 5:42:31 PM

i always had the idea that if you could find any old photos/footage of campus you could actually project it onto the live space

how weird would it to be to have it life size and kinda in 3d

11/2/2006 6:18:25 PM

dude, that is fucking awesome! you should put it into a book or something.

11/2/2006 6:21:15 PM

Quote :

"45 years later and still no one knows what this is. "

lol. somebody in the design school told me once but I forgot. Like an egg or something. oh well.

also why the hell are there no trees in old pictures around state? Did they used to think it was a good idea to chop down every tree in sight a long time ago?


Nice work.

[Edited on November 2, 2006 at 6:45 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2006 6:43:41 PM

Awesome photos, man. Keep it up!

11/2/2006 6:46:22 PM

^^ maybe because trees on farmland isn't a good thing???

11/2/2006 6:55:41 PM

very cool

11/2/2006 7:02:52 PM

Nice work!

11/2/2006 7:30:47 PM

This makes me sad, though.

Not sure why

11/2/2006 7:48:35 PM

Probably because most of the people in the photos are deader than Jimmy Hoffa.

11/2/2006 7:51:42 PM

Probably because you also realize that one day everything you see, know and love will disappear just like it did for these people. Who cares if a few buildings are still standing in a few decades? Every past moment of your life will already be long gone. So, umm, enjoy it. Or buckle down and make it count. Or drink more. I'm not really sure where I was going with this. Ooooh! 'The Office' is on TV!

11/2/2006 9:02:29 PM

nice picture work. I'm sure you're aware, but the website could use a lot of work. If the images were worked into a nice looking site it'd be quite a tool.

11/2/2006 9:03:10 PM

where do you get your pictures from?

have you tried to see if you could get any funding from the university to make this an official thing?

11/2/2006 9:12:56 PM

cool

the tree grew

11/2/2006 9:23:11 PM

that's amazing, great job. how do you determine the angle/perspective for the modern shots? take the old photo's out with you and line it up or something?

11/2/2006 11:09:31 PM

this is badass. give us more.

11/2/2006 11:16:01 PM

good stuff

i'm also amazed that people are actually giving compliments

11/2/2006 11:33:54 PM

id like to see more, very cool photgraphy

11/2/2006 11:48:46 PM

awesome.

11/3/2006 12:08:31 AM

i think

Quote :

"This is badass. Give us more."

pretty much sums up where i stand

[Edited on November 3, 2006 at 12:21 AM. Reason : ]

11/3/2006 12:21:15 AM

good stuff

i'm also amazed that people are actually giving compliments

11/3/2006 12:28:47 AM

Here's my guess as to why there are no trees in the old photos:

The old photos are probably from around the time the buildings had just been built, in which case the land was probably cleared for the construction, and over time the trees have been planted and grown back. My guess is they didn't have the techniques to keep the trees or else didn't think about trying to keep them, so they got rid of all of them at the time.

That, or NC State was first built in the middle of a field.

11/3/2006 1:04:01 AM

Quote :

"That, or NC State was first built in the middle of a field."

11/3/2006 1:07:47 AM

11/3/2006 2:32:47 AM

Pyro, you know this thread is fuckin sweet - I have tons of pics you can use, if you want. I just don't have time to do them all - studio is kickin my ass right now. This is going in favs


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11/3/2006 3:28:12 AM

I dig this thread.

11/3/2006 9:28:42 AM

^^Yea man..I'm currently getting my images from http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/eresources/digitalimages.html (Search the database...) but I wouldn't mind seeing what you have as well.

I've shot more of these, but they don't line up well enough yet. I'll have to take some more when I can.

I'd like to do more of these around Raleigh, but I don't have as many hi-res originals and my knowledge of the area is limited.

11/3/2006 10:08:20 AM

I havent been on campus in 3 years.. what the heck did they do in front of turlington and alexander?

11/3/2006 10:14:46 AM

That's great! It reminds me of those "New York through the ages" pics that Big Man posted

I also think it would be cool to see the pics side by side instead of superimposed . . . that's what the NY ones were like

11/3/2006 10:17:59 AM

this is badass. give us more.

11/3/2006 11:57:01 AM

I like. Don't forget that Clark Hall used to be an infirmary--they say it's haunted.

11/3/2006 12:24:38 PM

this is absolutely awesome

11/3/2006 12:28:18 PM

Also, where are some good sources for BEFORE shots?

11/3/2006 12:32:57 PM

This is great....

I'd love to see more!

I've added it to my topics

such creativity...sweet

11/3/2006 9:44:11 PM

pretty sure this guy should be banned from TWW for being the first person to actually contribute something truly spectacular, novel, and worthwhile

11/3/2006 10:00:30 PM

they have something similar at http://www.ncsu.edu/nso/traditions/campus.htm

except is it not very well matched up in some instances, and uses html rollower instead of overlaying the two pics

11/3/2006 11:18:28 PM

http://www.ncsu.edu/nso/traditions/campus/hillsborough%20st/hillsborough.htm

this will link you to the original original tompkins, prior to the first fire

11/4/2006 1:11:33 AM

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"I havent been on campus in 3 years.. what the heck did they do in front of turlington and alexander?"

the redid the free expression tunnel man... took like a year but it's done... they added a big honkin ramp for handicapped ppl to get into it... did a bunch of stuff on the dabney side too... it's really nice but i wish they hadn't done it the entire year that was my last year living on campus i lived in carroll hall freshman and sophomore years, and i gotta tell ya a big reason was bc the tunnel was right there... oh well

11/4/2006 1:46:38 AM

Is that Weees' car in the first pic?

11/4/2006 2:03:48 AM

http://www.ncsu.edu/nso/traditions/campus.htm

That's awesome, though it could be better. I'd actually been looking for some of those photographs.

11/4/2006 2:23:46 AM