{"id":3839,"date":"2009-01-06T02:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T02:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/06\/bruges-panoramas\/"},"modified":"2011-09-08T02:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T01:30:57","slug":"bruges-panoramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/06\/bruges-panoramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruges panoramas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you detect a theme here? The 360\u00ba Cities<\/a> site which I linked to yesterday won’t be news to some since its panorama views are now incorporated into Google Earth. I hadn’t fully investigated it before, however, so I wasted some time today wandering the streets of Bruges<\/a> almost as you would in a computer game thanks to the way the different panoramas are linked. Clicking the arrows or the thumbnail views means you’re immediately transported to the next location. (Needless to say this works best using the full screen option on a large monitor.) The photographs in this instance are by Robin de Baere.<\/p>\n

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Bruges is another of those waterlogged places with cobbled streets which so beguile me, hence the choice of a Belgian town over more obvious European locations. The light skies in the night shots\u2014a result of long exposures\u2014lend the empty streets some of the same mysterious atmosphere captured by Ren\u00e9 Magritte in his Empire of Light<\/em> series. Magritte was Belgian, of course, so it’s rather fitting, as was Paul Delvaux<\/a>, another painter of noctural mystery.<\/p>\n

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Empire of Light by Ren\u00e9 Magritte (1953\u201354). <\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The panoramas archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Bruges-la-Morte<\/a>
\n\u2022 Taxandria, or Raoul Servais meets Paul Delvaux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you detect a theme here? The 360\u00ba Cities site which I linked to yesterday won’t be news to some since its panorama views are now incorporated into Google Earth. I hadn’t fully investigated it before, however, so I wasted some time today wandering the streets of Bruges almost as you would in a computer … Continue reading “Bruges panoramas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,51,44,12,18],"tags":[148,269,349,146,1663,115],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-cities","category-painting","category-photography","category-surrealism","tag-bruges","tag-panoramas","tag-paul-delvaux","tag-prague","tag-raoul-servais","tag-magritte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-ZV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}