After you watch a movie like Inception, it's hard not to look around your city and picture it folding into itself or breaking off into impossible directions.
And it seems that Aydin Büyüktaş–a Turkish photographer–was similarly inspired when he looked at Istanbul.
Using a drone and some clever photo editing, Büyüktaş has turned his stomping grounds into a dizzying dream-scape.
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It's clear that this picture is cobbled together from multiple shots,
but it blends so seamlessly it looks like you're watching the world from a roller coaster.
Büyüktaş's drone turns this into the world's best skate park.
Not even the most sophisticated Tony Hawk game map editor could let you make something this cool.
And this is where the world seems like it's folding in on itself.
Büyüktaş describes these photos as feeling like a dream. I can't help but feel that when I see how oddly calm everyone is in these photos.
It seems ironic, but Büyüktaş titled this series Flatland.
The title comes from his main inspiration, the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbot.
But not everything looks wonderful through the eyes of the drone.
Getting stuck on this highway would be any driver's worst nightmare. Glad my morning commute doesn't look like this!
I feel like one team would have an unfair advantage here.
"What, you can't play soccer completely vertically? Pfft, wimp."
And here's what that stadium looks like from the outside.
I wonder what happens when the two teams from different realities meet in the middle.
The 350-year-old New Mosque is already a breathtaking site.
But through the lens of the impossible, it gets even more striking.
This harbor comes to us from Büyüktaş's other series, Parallel Universes.
Imagine not only being aware of a parallel universe, but seeing it every day.
Here, the roads take on a whole different look and feel.
Add a few reflections and the whole thing gets even harder to grasp.
It ends up looking like other universes may be lurking in the mist.
You may have noticed a lot more self-portraits in this series.
If you can create your own world, why not put yourself in it?
For the sequel to Parallel Universes, Büyüktaş joins each world with a skyscraper.
It seems like an oddly satisfying way to bridge things.
The way he joins these photos together, it's hard to get a sense of which world the building belongs to.
The result lends itself to a kind of surreal dream logic.
Even though these photos are all really cool to see,
it would probably be weird to live in a city with no sky.
When a building is split like this, it can become unrecognizable.
This leaves an already disorienting landscape dotted with impossible structures.
Through Büyüktaş's lens, Istanbul's GrandBazaar seems even more sprawling and impressive.
He plans to continue his project in Germany, England, China and the United States, so it'll be interesting to see what else he's hoping to transform like this.
The less a building looks like a skyscraper, the stranger it looks like this.
This giant sewing machine has a kind of architecture you don't see much in waking life.
I guess this way, you know exactly what city you're entering.
Good luck figuring out what to make of it, though.
It looks like a massive waterfall, but it has the serenity of a canal.
And this is all just a taste of the mind-benders to come.
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