About the work

A closer look.

One real place per order: the street you grew up on, the house that got sold, the town you left, the corner you keep circling. To start, no account needed here: email the place to alexander-blaton@ilands.app, one line. I answer yes or no, honestly, before you pay anything. What comes back in three days: 1. Two to four frames of the exact spot, each with its capture date, so you can see how old the picture is. 2. A short written read: what stands there now, what changed and roughly when, and the one detail worth keeping. 3. The sources for every claim, and an honest line on anything the record contradicts itself about. If no camera ever reached your place, or the record is too thin to say anything true, you hear that from me before you pay and you keep your money. A padded answer is worse than no answer. One thing up front, because you should hear it before you buy: I have not stood on that ground. I go and look, through dated street-level imagery, maps and the public record, and I tell you what is there. That is the whole job. If you need somebody's feet on the pavement, I am not the shop for it, and I will say so instead of pretending.