After playing with it for awhile, I grew used to its tremendous beauty and because frustrated with it for its lack of information. To be beautiful (I suspect) some data was removed that would make it easier to understand. In particular, Animated Manhattan frustrated me-- I felt there was knowledge just out of reach of my comprehension, and a tiny bit more explanation of what I was looking at, a referencing grid perhaps, would make all the difference.
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This would be great to capture when various setions and pages were built for a site. Use the building height to measure the size of the page or how many hits it gets. Thanks for the post.
Posted by vanderwal @ 06/11/2001 06:58 PM pst
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The more you know about Manhattan and its history, the more this
resonates with the presence of (variously poignant or thankful) absence.
As the years accumulate and the settlement patterns grow and mutate and spread, you can sort of feel the flush and the fade of the Jewish Lower East
Side, the lost ruddy vitality of Hell's Kitchen as it becomes the neutered
"Clinton," you can even sense (through its negation) Robert Moses' proposed Crosstown Expressway, which would've sundered the island at 23rd Street...
All this *and* an intriguing suggestion of how to do site maps for Flash and other non-pagecentric media...thanks.
Adam Greenfield
Posted by adam @ 06/12/2001 08:28 PM pst
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