Even with the advent of airplanes and automobiles , the adventure outline in Jules Verne ’s classic novelAround the World in Eighty Daysis still an impressive feat by today ’s standards . In the record book Phileas Fogg and his valet Passeportout traveling across three continents in less than three months , making stops in some of the domain ’s greatest metropolises , including Hong Kong , New York , Calcutta , and Bombay . It has been a womb-to-tomb ambition of Budapest - based illustrator Lehel Kovacs to recreate the fictional journeying and draw in postcards along the way , and now modern technology is appropriate him to do so without leaving home .
Using Google Street View , Kovacs “ call ” every location mentioned inAround the World in Eighty Daysand illustrated what he see . He makes his postcard by drawing the lineation in pencil and scanning them onto his computer , then adds color and texture on Photoshop . He say the illustrations are n’t meant to look finished but should instead represent an initial impression of each placement .
The destinations have manifestly undergone substantial change since they were written about in 1873 — Bombay is now Mumbai and San Francisco is now crowded with hybrid motorcar and high-pitched - rises — but Kovacs ’ decided style bring an appropriate vintage feel .
With hisKickstartercampaign , Kovacs go for to make his 40 alone postcards usable to a wider audience . As of the time of writing , he ’s kindle closely $ 5,000 , shattering his initial $ 1,520 destination . Fellow Jules Verne fan can still make a pledge and receive post card of their own . Thanks to Kovacs ' appeal , if you do n’t have the resource to play the storied trip in real life , you might still win over gullible Quaker otherwise .
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[ h / t : WIRED ]
