Subway Stream (live link) presents the advertisements of two subway stations as images whizzing by like passing trains. As more stations are added: How is a particular subway station identifiable from its set of ads? What ads repeat across stations and within a station? Where is there vacancy?
Photographs were taken the morning of Tuesday, January 23rd at the Seventh Avenue B/Q stop in Brooklyn and the Prince Street 6 stop in Manhattan. The automatic movement of the images is achieved through an interval function calling scrollLeft() every 50ms and sliding the images over 200px.
Next steps:
- Add additional subway stations in different parts of the city.
- Clean up code: make a class from which each station is instantiated, include direction, speed and extents as properties.