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This album on Flickr is pretty much amazing. The author took a bunch of photographs from Fortepan, an archive of Hungarian amateur photography, and returned to the places where they were taken to contrast the past with the present. Examples:

 

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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And a few more

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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those are some awesome photo's I wonder has anyone else done something similar...

 

Yes! There was one linked on BoingBoing a while back of the post war Berlin landscape - bullet holes and all, superimposed on top of much calmer, restored modern day views. I think it's a kind of sub genre which re-emerges amongst photography enthusiasts. =-3

"No proposition Euclid wrote,

No formulae the text-books know,

Will turn the bullet from your coat,

Or ward the tulwar's downward blow

Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—

The odds are on the cheaper man."

 

From 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' by Rudyard Kipling

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You could do this with any city. I'd like to see it for NYC. But these are great.

Of course I like Budapest after visiting when I was working in Geneva.

What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine.

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You could do this with any city. I'd like to see it for NYC. But these are great.

Of course I like Budapest after visiting when I was working in Geneva.

 

Oh Demagogue, you have quite the jet set lifestyle! =-P

 

Just finished Patently Dangerous, btw - impressively complex for a first mission!

"No proposition Euclid wrote,

No formulae the text-books know,

Will turn the bullet from your coat,

Or ward the tulwar's downward blow

Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—

The odds are on the cheaper man."

 

From 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' by Rudyard Kipling

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I love images like that. Maybe I should try to make some of my hometown... :)

 

Oh Demagogue, you have quite the jet set lifestyle! =-P

 

Just finished Patently Dangerous, btw - impressively complex for a first mission!

The King of Off-Topic posting strikes again! :D

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The King of Off-Topic posting strikes again! :D

 

Sorry, it's been almost a decade since I used a forum and I admit I've ended up treating it a bit like an IM service. Apologies.

"No proposition Euclid wrote,

No formulae the text-books know,

Will turn the bullet from your coat,

Or ward the tulwar's downward blow

Strike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—

The odds are on the cheaper man."

 

From 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' by Rudyard Kipling

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Off topic or not (and it *is* the Off Topic forum after all, so no worries), thanks for the complement. ^_^

 

And I wouldn't consider a side trip to Budapest all that "jet setting" either. You know by American standards Europe is a pretty compact place and it's so easy & cheap to just grab a train and travel through a country or four. Also this is Hungary we're talking about lol not Monaco. E. Europe is happily cheaper than going West. More character IMO too (though I hear it's getting suburbanized fast.) But I really liked that city; classic crumbly architecture, lots of sounds, smells of spices, & color, lots of shadows & dark alleys and you know I'm going to love that. I even got fined for hopping the tram (I had no idea where to buy a ticket) I was I think the only one on and some undercover patrols busted me; and even that seemed like part of its weird charm.

What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine.

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Europe sounds really cool to me, I actually think I'd like the people more too, lol.

 

America is beautiful no doubt, but the people are assholes.

 

I love traveling here, I'm in Colorado so any direction I go is beautiful scenery. But it takes forever to get anywhere, we have no good rails, but still to get anywhere wouldn't be a quick journey. I have to drive 20 hours to get the the west coast and with gas prices it's way too expensive and time consuming.

And you don't get any change of cultures at all. Sure Utah is a weird Mormon state, and Nevada is a police state (ironically the only state with legal prostitution). But most areas don't change that much culture wise.

 

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those time lapse photos are cool. But it looks like the old war torn ones are an improvement over the modern day commercial Burger King crap.

Dark is the sway that mows like a harvest

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