Gigapan: Obama's Inauguration Photo

This is pretty amazing. I mean it is from a weird side angle and I'm not exactly sure the point of it, but it's cool. Make sure you do lots of zooming so you experience how crisp and detailed the photo really is. Here's what the site says:

I made this Gigapan image from the north press platform during President Obama's inaugural address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on January 20, 2009. It's made up of 220 images and the final image size is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels.

** UPDATE 1/25/09 -- Thank you for the overwhelming enthusiasm for this photo. I am happy to announce that high quality prints will be available shortly. To be notified, send a blank email to: pano@davidbergman.net

Gigapan of Obama's Inauguration

By the way, here's what a Gigapan is:

GigaPan consists of three technological developments: a robotic camera mount for capturing very high-resolution (gigapixel and up) panoramic images using a standard digital camera; custom software for constructing very high-resolution gigapixel panoramas; and, a new type of website for exploring, sharing and commenting on gigapixel panoramas and the detail our users will discover within them. The GigaPan website allows hosting and sharing all kinds of panoramas, and so the robotic GigaPan mount is recommended but is certainly not required to be part of this community.

Obamicons Are Here

Well to continue with all the presidential hype surrounding yesterday's inauguration I bring you a new trend Swiffering the nation....Obamicons.

Obamicons? Yes, I understand you are probably confused but it will all make sense once you see one. Remember the Obama "HOPE" poster you saw everywhere?
Well, an Obamicon is basically taking this same design and applying it any and everything. Here is my top 10 favorite Obamicons:

Check out all the other Obamicons HERE

OBAMA

If you missed yesterday's inauguration then you FAIL!

Here's some interesting info from yesterday from Cynopsis Digital:

Combining live television with the interactivity of the web proved to be a powerful lure for two major media and web brands yesterday. CNN.com's live streaming application, which was accompanied by a Facebook widget that allowed members to view comments from their peanut gallery of friends, set web traffic records yesterday serving a total of 18.8 million total online viewers as of 1 pm ET. (This shattered CNN's previous record of 5.3 million streams set on Election Day.) CNN served more than 1.3 million concurrent live streams just as President Obama began his address. This nearly doubled the streaming output of YouTube Live back in November of approximately 700,000 concurrent viewers as measured by Akamai, believed to be the previous industry high water mark. Facebook averaged more than 4,000 status updates per hour Tuesday morning, peaking at 8,500 updates/minute during the President's speech. Meanwhile Twitter, which survived without any major outages, saw 5x its normal tweet rate.

President Barack Obama 2009 Inauguration and Address


Barack and Michelle Obama's "First Dance" at the Neighborhood Ball


Dr. Joseph Lowery delivers Inauguration Benediction for Barack Obama


Interesting Links:
-WhiteHouse.gov - check out the redesigned site
-International Reaction to the Inauguration - Huffington Post
-Hulu's Obama Page