Make History
Local Projects 2009
Website for the National 9/11 Memorial Museum
Make History is a world-wide initiative to gather any and every 9/11 story in an effort to understand history from the perspective of those who witnessed it.
Using the website, visitors can search, group and sequence any number of histories, photos or experiences, creating custom sequences by time, geography or theme. Each photo is overlaid on a current Google Street View image of the present day, creating a "double exposure" of past and present.
"The images create a 'double-vision' contrast between the intensity of the past, and the banality of the present."
— Information Aesthetics, September 2009
"Make History is perhaps the most notable recent example of a museum tapping the collective energy of Web users to help build its collection."
— The New York Times, January 19, 2010
Using the website, visitors can search, group and sequence any number of histories, photos or experiences, creating custom sequences by time, geography or theme. Each photo is overlaid on a current Google Street View image of the present day, creating a "double exposure" of past and present.
"The images create a 'double-vision' contrast between the intensity of the past, and the banality of the present."
— Information Aesthetics, September 2009
"Make History is perhaps the most notable recent example of a museum tapping the collective energy of Web users to help build its collection."
— The New York Times, January 19, 2010
Role
Lead developer, collaborative concept development
Thanks to
Andrew "the kid" Mahon,
Stephan Thiel,
Jake Barton,
...and all of the LP crew
Writing / press
Webby Award
Official Honoree, Cultural Institution, 2010
HOW Interactive Design Award
Merit Award, Miscellaneous Category, 2010
New York Times
2010 September 12
New York Times
2010 January 19
New York Post
2009 November 9
Associated Press
2006 September 10
Official Honoree, Cultural Institution, 2010
HOW Interactive Design Award
Merit Award, Miscellaneous Category, 2010
New York Times
2010 September 12
New York Times
2010 January 19
New York Post
2009 November 9
Associated Press
2006 September 10