3d photos of Old Japan

[andygates]

Now this is really cool: Animated stereoviews of old Japan ::: Pink Tentacle

They're stereographs taken during the Meiji period, hand-coloured and presented as animated gifs.  The animating gives a similar 3d effect to bobbing your head from side to side (it works for one-eyed people too!). 



(The Meiji is roughly equivalent to the Victorian over here: you've got olde traditions going slap bang up against modern stuff like steam and photography and market economics, so there was a lot of cool stuff going on)

[Moloko]

 

No belly dancers. 

[Riggers]

I like the second picture. What were those girls thinking!!!??? You want to shout "Pull up Jean, you're going to crash!"

[Bledlow]

I like the one of the two geisha with bottles of beer. A modern, western product . . .

Ueno park has changed. It's now filled with museums & Tokyo zoo. It's right next to the station where one catches the train to the suburb where Mrs Bs mother & sister live, so I've often been there.