February 03, 2009

So anyway, one photographer sent a daguerreotype of the Obama inauguration along to another photographer whose wife then found the first photographer in a Gigapan picture also taken at the inauguration. Since the daguerreotype process was announced in 1839 and GigaPan was spun off in 2008 (and was itself the result of R&D deployed as part of the Mars Rover mission) that puts nearly 170 years between the two. Which is, I dunno, kinda neat really.
posted by polychrome 15 years ago
  • This is totally cool. And you can also pop over to the satellite image of the whole thing going on as seen from space. I wonder what Orwell would've thought about Google Earth?
  • That daguerreotype is my new wallpaper, thanks.
  • Ooooh. Many (((( to you for a splendid set of links. This image is nothing short of astonishing. Thanks, polychrome!
  • In the satellite image, what's the deal with the scheme they had for placing the crowds? After the Capitol, the crowds kind of get larger as you go further away, especially near the Washington Monument. Crowd #3 is unusually small. Was there some sort of non-democratic access to the event?
  • I wondered about that too. You can see big screens near each big block of people, and I heard (or read an article) about a bunch of people - purple? - who were left in an access tunnel waiting to gather on the Mall, so people were somehow grouped by colour on their tickets, I guess?
  • Bananas yay! Thanks to all for the kind comments. Wheee! *a little bit silly tonight*
  • Oh, oh. Take away the keys, somebody. Looks like someone's going to have to sleep on trac's couch tonight.