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There are 5 comments on Time Travels: Marsh Plaza Bird’s-eye

  1. Very nice video! However, it makes clear that Marsh Plaza is highly under-utilized by students. No one stops to hang out there; it’s just an outdoor hallway. Replacing the granite with grass would make it a more inviting area.

  2. I’m a fan of how infrequently the T goes through the image. And when it does go through, it’s in groups of trains going in the same direction!

  3. As ‘Very nice video!’ noted, my initial thought was – yup, no one seems to have enjoyed this space. Then I stopped to do some math.

    At one frame per second, 30 fps video replay, and a 30 second clip, we are looking at 900 seconds/ 15 minutes of activity.

    Over a 15 minute interval “making sure a custodian didn’t take the camera down” would not be a large challenge. To me this means the video was a selected excerpt from a longer period of observation.

    How long was the camera on?

    What was the selection criteria?
    (most activity?)(aesthetically pleasing trajectories?)

    What was Peter trying to say with his selection Criteria?

    With the name of Moriarty, a Sherlock Holmes Villain, how critical/receptive should we be to responding to selected videos without knowing the selection process?

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