Auto-captioned seaside post cards

Multi-view postcards with blunt, auto-generated captions from YouTube remove the traditional notion of authorship. These captions, derived from what the narrator seems to say during walking tours of UK seaside locations, offer an unfiltered, often brutally honest perspective. This immediacy conveys a more contemporary and authentic truth about each place, something that professionally composed and upscaled images may fail to capture for a remote audience.

The first set of postcards features St Leonards, East Sussex, and London, spanning 100 years of history. Additionally, I've processed a tour of Morecambe from a different v-logger, which you can see at the end of this page. By using auto-captions (from YouTube’s subtitle settings), a new narrative emerges, creating a contemporary postcard with realistic photography sourced from citizen reportage.

Hastings:
Fake nostalgia benefits from auto-generated captions translating the audio track from the POV of a vlogger eyes, on a  visit captured  in 2024, remixed by myself into postcards, to be fed back into an interactive video experience

Why am I making postcards from YouTube video creators?

This helps me continue the vintage style of a photographer giving an everyday scene a title, except now these subtitles are automatically created from their narrator's audio when viewing with closed captions/subtitles. The reduced direction I experience when passively viewing and making screen grabs with their unexpected texts is sometimes more realistic, the stark contemporary descriptions and mundane scenes are in keeping with the classic British seaside postcard genre.