The "Out of Reach" Project

Over at the Cursive Buildings blog, photographer Joshua Heineman started up a project called Out of Reach. He took a bunch of stereoscopic images from the 1800s and early 1900s and compiled them into animated gifs. His goal:

i’m breathing new life into the past using old digitized photographs from the new york public library. i’ve spent hours rekindling these moments. & they will not be the last. i’m so so deep on these funny little things… it’s like the past has rediscovered a dimension!

Sure, creating two-framed animated is nothing new, but there's a traditional beauty about these images. It's actually neat to see an almost "living" image of times past.

Although after a while, my eyes started hurting, heh.

Out of Reach (at Cursive Buildings)