Road Trip, USA - from sea to shining sea.

[Petra]

Photographer Matt Frondorf drove from New York to San Francisco and took one photograph for every mile he travelled. And the US is 3,304 photos wide. :yup:

http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/corp/features/onTheRoad/

[Dingfod]

Cool. I don't have time to look at it right now. If he went across Kansas in I-70 there will be about 400 photos that look almost exactly alike.

[viscousmemories]

I had a look, and the pics were about as interesting as I expected. Not at all. :giggle:

I have road-tripped from Michigan to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Michigan, Michigan to Los Angeles, Michigan to New York, Missouri to Virginia, Los Angeles to Texas, and Texas to Michigan. And yeah, there's a whole lot of nothin' in this country.*


*Truthfully there are a whole lot of really interesting places and things to see, too.

[JoeP]

Is it just me or are those pretty low-quality pics? I don't mean the small size, but the uneven light intensity. They look like they were taken with a cheap lens, like a cellphone camera.

[alphamale]

I had a look, and the pics were about as interesting as I expected. Not at all. :giggle:

I have road-tripped from Michigan to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Michigan, Michigan to Los Angeles, Michigan to New York, Missouri to Virginia, Los Angeles to Texas, and Texas to Michigan. And yeah, there's a whole lot of nothin' in this country.*


*Truthfully there are a whole lot of really interesting places and things to see, too.

From Beetles lyrics Baby you're a Rich Man:

How often have you been there?
Often enough to know.
What did you see, when you were there?
Nothing that doesn't show.

[Petra]

They're definitely not great photos, but I really like the concept. I'd love to do a road trip around NZ taking a photo every mile - it's such a cool idea.

[Crumb]

Maybe I should do a walk through of downtown Portland. Taking pics every 100 steps or so... :plotting:

[alphamale]

Maybe I should do a walk through of downtown Portland. Taking pics every 100 steps or so... :plotting:

Uh, no .... don't. You'll put yourself to sleep.

[Sock Puppet]

If he went across Kansas in I-70 there will be about 400 photos that look almost exactly alike.
If he took them through the windshield, the squashed-bug pattern would vary in shape and color.

[freemonkey]

Maybe I should do a walk through of downtown Portland. Taking pics every 100 steps or so... :plotting:

Uh, no .... don't. You'll put yourself to sleep.
What's wrong with Portland?

[wildernesse]

I think it's a neat concept, but it would have been better if he'd walked/biked it. Better because a) I like the idea better, and b) it's more likely that you would find something interesting to take a picture of at that rate. And they would be less likely to be blurred.

Kansas is good for sleeping. Unless you're going to see the Largest Hand Dug Well in the World (http://www.bigwell.org/bigwell.html)!! heehee.

[Dingfod]

Kansas is good for sleeping. Unless you're going to see the Largest Hand Dug Well in the World (http://www.bigwell.org/bigwell.html)!! heehee.I've been there.

[Widget]

If you view it as a slideshow with the settings at 1 second per view you can do the whole trip in 55 minutes... ever travelled at 3304MPH before?

ps. if you hit the brakes hard a little putty knife comes out and wipes you off the windshield. :)

[Shake]

I've road-tripped from here to Denver, so that portion of it for me was a bit further north. Western Ohio is pretty flat and not much to see, but at least it was better than Iowa. All I remember from Iowa was fucking cornfields on both sides of the bus and no permanent structures or topography to speak of. We entered Nebraska north of Omaha (Blair, IIRC) and there were indeed some hills there. From there it was pretty boring 'til the Rockies started looming in the distance.

I've also done Charleston (SC) to here. Charleston to Providence, RI, via NYC, with a return through Washington, DC. Other destinations from Charleston were: Atlanta, Tampa, New Orleans, Asheville, Columbus (OH) and some other places in the eastern US.

Two summers ago, we went from Vegas to Phoenix to catch a baseball game, then up to the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam before returning to Vegas. Sure, there's a lot of nothing out there, but it was very different for our group of folks who've lived mostly in the eastern US.

I agree that there is a lot of cool stuff to see in between the boring stretches. I love travelling!

[MooseIBe]

It's definitely a cool idea.. I'd like to do one in England :)

[viscousmemories]

If you view it as a slideshow with the settings at 1 second per view you can do the whole trip in 55 minutes... ever travelled at 3304MPH before?
I thought that might be cool at first, but I got thoroughly bored after like a minute. :blush:

[wildernesse]

Kansas is good for sleeping. Unless you're going to see the Largest Hand Dug Well in the World (http://www.bigwell.org/bigwell.html)!! heehee.I've been there.

Me too--our family actually spent a night in this town on the return from the Grand Canyon. We ate dinner in what used to be a Pizza Hut--and everyone looked at us like we all had two heads.

The big road trips I've been on in the US are: Georgia-New York (Niagara Falls); Georgia-Arizona (Grand Canyon); Georgia-Wyoming (Yellowstone). The last two were big loops and not out and back. Plus, I've driven a bunch around the Southeast. I love road trips.

[Trojan]

Cool idea. I've only done a roadtrip once, to D.C. It's boringville from KC to Columbus, OH but when you get into southern PA and WV it's really beautiful. Very different too. The houses are built upward and are narrow. So different from the sprawling beige ranch style homes here. 24 hours it took to get to D.C. with no drinking. (It was for an abortion rights march.) My dream roadtrip is to drive from KC to Seattle, south to San Deigo, east thru Phoenix and NM and then follow the Rio Grande to Corpus Christi. Then east along the Gulf to Tampa, north to Atlanta, Thru the Carolinas, thru D.C. and a final run to Caribou, Maine after a stop in NYC and Boston. I'm so travel starved I could eat a UN ration.