Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades by Owen Trueblood 2025 May 4 One of my favorite joys is exploring a city late at night on rollerblades. I’ve been doing it fairly regularly for about 10 years now, first in Boston and then in NYC. Every time day turns to night and back again a city takes a breath. At night people flow out or huddle up in buildings, leaving the streets clear for the people and machines that reset the urban environment for the next day. Garbage trucks lumber about, workers unload fresh stock at stores, repairs happen in subway tunnels and on roads. Without all the people it’s easier to see the naked form of the streets, buildings, and infrastructure. When you’re moving slow you spend more time taking in the details. When you’re moving fast the world becomes a blur. The world around you is a brush that paints into your perception, and the speed of the brush strokes helps set the style of the painting. I like rollerblading in particular because it gives those ... Read full article.