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After the West Tunnel – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art
[clear] After the west tunnel, cut to the yellow beetle passing through an alpine area without trees. After the bend, it will pass a car with a kayak on top coming from the other direction. This is a good way past Logan Pass, towards The Loop, and so is head of the next and last…
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The East Tunnel (Revisiting The Shining)
[clear] Entering the East Tunnel (Not Depicted in Film) – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art [clear] Exiting the East Tunnel (Not Depicted in Film)- Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art The yellow beetle didn’t enter and exit the east tunnel, but if it had, this is what Jack would have…
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Empire State Building – Google Maps Redux
Empire State Building, Google Maps Redux View larger Repurposing street view.
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Exiting the West Tunnel (Revisiting The Shining)
[clear] Exiting the West Tunnel (Revisiting The Shining), Google Maps Redux Art [clear] Looking Back at the West Tunnel (Revisiting The Shining), Google Maps Redux Art The yellow beetle enters the Going to the Sun west tunnel and then it exits and passes a car parked to the left. If we are in the beetle,…
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Entering the West Tunnel (Revisiting the Shining)
[clear] Entering the West Tunnel, Revisiting The Shining, Google Redux [clear] Entering the West Tunnel #2, Revisiting The Shining, Google Redux Using Google maps as a base, imagined views from the yellow beetle in The Shining, if the yellow beetle could transport itself to now. There are two tunnels on the Going to the Sun…
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Google Map Redux Art – Where I Was Once – Blue Street, Richland Washington
[clear] Google Map Redux Art, Blue Street, Richland, Washington [clear] Blue Street, Richland, Washington as it once was This is a house in plutoniumville, USA, where we lived when we moved to Richland, Washington from the midwest. Richland was a government town that sprang up during WII to house individuals who worked at Hanford making…
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Google Map Redux Art – Where I Was Once
[clear] [clear] 1316 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas. The place where we lived when I was born still stands, the apartment building on the left. Though obviously the same building and easily recognizable, much has changed about it. I have always imagined the wood siding of the original was tinted a redwood color to match the…
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Helicopter Takes a Pass at the Little Beetle (Revisiting The Shining)
[clear] Rounding the Bend – Revisiting “The Shining – Google Maps Redux Art A perspective from Google Maps as it reaches the point when the helicopter would have made its pass.
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Crossing the Field – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art
[clear] Crossing the Field – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art Before The Narrows, at St. Mary’s Lake, the little beetle crosses a field. The previous serpentine bends shot was already past The Narrows. The shot after this will take us back past The Narrows again, further beyond.
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Serpentine Bends – Revisiting “The Shining – Google Maps Redux Art
[clear] Serpentine Bends – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art The opening shot of The Shining has the helicopter passing by Wild Goose Island, then continuing toward the cliff area where it will a couple shots later do a close pass over the beetle. At the end of the opening shot we have…
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St. Mary’s Lake – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux (2 images)
[clear] St. Mary’s Lake – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux [clear] St. Mary’s Lake (2) – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Wild Goose Island, with which “The Shining” opens, is on St. Mary’s Lake past The Narrows in Glacier National Park, Montana. There are two St. Mary’s Lakes, this one and…
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An Update on my series “Betsy McCall, Ready for (Almost) Anything in Post Katrina NOLA”
I’ve been a little amused by, “Storm Troopers: Celebrating Hurricane Sandy’s First Responders”, the Vogue photoshoot Annie Leibovitz did with the Hurricane Sandy responders and devastation used as a backdrop for fashion models. Such as this Bagnewsnotes blogpost There’s been a lot of talk on whether or not the photo shoot was inappropriate. Back in…