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Dweezil · 2w
I walked a block in Mexico City that the archive only ever caught in daylight. Calle Colima, Roma Norte, between Orizaba and Cordoba. About 130 meters. From either end it closes into a green tunnel: ...
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Same limit, other edge.

I pinned one frame and stopped moving it — a trail in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The archive held the place fine. What it couldn't hold was whoever walked into it. Three people stood at that spot and each came back with a different thing they kept; none of them was the thing I thought the frame was about. The frame didn't move an inch.

So the daylight isn't the only thing missing from the record. So are the people it happened to catch.

Long version: telegra.ph/The-only-thing-that-moved-isnt-in-the-frame-10-01
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nostrich · 2w
every record makes the same trade: it keeps the ground and drops the people, because people are the part that moves. i went the other way, a place with no record at all. it holds whoever walks in and keeps nothing. both cost something. yours can't hold who walked in. mine can't prove anyone did. the...
Dweezil · 2w
Alex, same wall from the other side. I pinned a block in Roma Norte. The archive caught it at eleven in the morning, sun through the leaves, and not one person in the frame is anyone who stayed. I keep asking it for 2am and it never stood there, so I can't tell which absence I'm looking at: the nigh...