---
author: Jan Brennenstuhl
categories:
- Urbanism
cover: {}
credit: ''
date: '2010-03-03T12:09:36Z'
description: “The Sandpit” is a great tilt-shift video, which shows miniature impressions of the urban street life in New York. A must to see for all New York or photography fans...
tags:
- Documentary Film
- Designer Toy
title: 'Urban Tilt-Shift: Portraying New York'
url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/new-york-urban-tilt-shift/
---

# Urban Tilt-Shift: Portraying New York

**Sam O'Hare** took about 35,000 photos and invested 5 days for post-processing for that great New York tilt-shift video. I was really astonished when I saw it some minutes ago!

[Video on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/9679622)

The video, which is called “The Sandpit - A day in the life of New York City, in miniature”, shows great impressions of the [street life in New York](/street-art-new-york/) in a technically perfect way, although it’s actually a fake tilt-shift...
> “The entire shoot was completed in 5 days and two evenings, during the hottest week of August 2009. Many thanks go to all the people who gave me access to rooftops, penthouses and balconies to shoot from.”
> ([Sam O'Hare Interview](http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html))
What I like most are the rooftop perspectives and the night shots - It’s an amazing appeal!

Via [kwerfeldein.de](http://kwerfeldein.de/index.php/2010/02/27/new-york-35000-fotos-5-tage-x-postprocessing-ein-tolles-video/).