{"id":442226,"date":"2010-03-17T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/high_altitude_the_stock_market_trends_as_realistic_mountain_ranges.html"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T00:04:48","slug":"high-altitude-stock-market-trends-as-realistic-mountain-ranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442226","title":{"rendered":"High Altitude: Stock Market Trends as Realistic Mountain Ranges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michael_najjar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/michael_najjar.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe almost realistic photos appearing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelnajjar.com\/\">High Altitude<\/a> [michaelnajjar.com] (don&#8217;t let the Flash overload stop you) visualize the development of the leading global stock market indices over the past 20-30 years. Photographer Michael Najjar used the images captured during his trek to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aconcagua\">Mount Aconcagua<\/a> (6,962m) as the basis of the high altitude data visualizations.<\/p>\n<p>Each stock market index, such as the Nikkei, Dow Jones, Nasdaq or the more specific Lehman Brothers stock quote downfall, corresponds to a impeccably rendered unique mountain range. Or, put differently, &#8220;<em>the virtual data mountains of the stock market charts are sublimated in the materiality of the Argentinean mountainscape<\/em>&#8220;. 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