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Despite its appearance, this is actually a composite of three
separate exposures taken overlooking US 101 in downtown San
Francisco a few months ago, namely two for the night scene and
one for the day scene. The fact that they match nearly precisely
was actually a total accident, one I exploited for the effect --
seriously, I didn't plan that out, they just happened to be
serendipitously dead-on. The images were composited in Photoshop,
bars drawn in "rubylith" over the image and perspectivized to
generate the stripes (with some hand-tinkering), and then the
text overlying that. I like how it emphasizes the consistency of
one's gestalt existence (the constant portions of the image such
as the buildings, the architecture, the trees) with the
day-to-day details (the changing lighting, the moving cars, the
pedestrians). It reinforces how the phases of our lives start to
run together, day and night, night and day, every day, every
night.
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