Super-cool high-res pan-and-zoom inauguration pic

Don’t know what was just said in the photo, but Biden and Feinstein are applauding while Bush and Cheney looked pained. What is Bush holding?

I love the detail when you zoom in! Reminds me of the “Where’s Waldo?” books.

wait wait wait… is clarence thomas asleep???

Obamania:

George W. Bush inauguration cost ~$40,000,000 – 70,000,000 (depending on source) for an attendance of ~300,000 people. This equals ~$133-$233/attendee

Barack Obama’s inauguration is estimated at ~$150,000,000 for anywhere from 1.5 million to 2 million. This equals only ~$75-$100/attendee

Was either inauguration worth the expense? I’ll leave that for others to decide, but as far as the expense per attendee goes … Obama seems to have made a better investment.

I found Waldo

I found some more of the “aliens” from comment 7. They probably moved when the pic was being taken. Or they are aliens, one of those has to be right. There is a guy next to (John Conyers?) right above O’s head. If you look to the left of him to the little lady, above her is a guy who looks like he is looking at the camera in surprise. Like he knows the picture is being taken. And he looks like Sloth. Bush and Cheney look jealous. And why do they have really nice chairs and almost everyone else, including Papa Bush, have those uncomfortable folding chairs. Can you say Equality?

@obamania

Yes and Bush got tons of liberals whining about how much he spent. $80 million of Obama’s came out of Tax payers money.

Just to put it in perspective, last I heard, the US was spending at least twice as much per day in Iraq.

The expenditure does make me wonder if we wouldn’t be better off doing this in the White House with maybe just the outgoing Prez and the new First Family. Televise the thing for the rest of the folks. This would hurt my feelings none. I wonder if people would go for this?

I suppose we wouldn’t have to spend so much if nobody wanted to see these things. Several hundred thousand heads converging on one spot are simply going to incur public costs.

I found Aretha Franklin mishmashed on someone else’s body.

http://jot.amid.com/post/72691247/hi-res-pan-and-zoom-inauguration-pic

@Rudy Her head isn’t on someone else’s body, Rick Warren or whoever, she’s sitting behind him. He just happened to move in the two overlapping photos.

Easterbunny slim, the guy you picked out is secret service, he’s talking into his sleeve… the motorola covert surveillance headset/mike has the microphone part right at the end of the right shirtsleeve and the button is actuated exactly as his hand is.

at Obamania (first poster): most of the money for his inauguration was DONATED, not paid for by taxes. Get over your tired rhetoric and check out the facts.

Couple of things:
On the roof of the white building, there is a filmer holding what either looks to be a Gatoraid (Product Placement???) or… he knew before-hand he would be waiting there for quite a while.
Second: From the tower, follow the path, look left (Still along the path), keep going 2-3 rows, there is a woman ignoring everything going on, just typing on her lap-top, sitting left/up of a person in a WONDERFUL touque (yes, the one saying “Obama Obama Obama Obama Obama…..”)

Where’s Winfrey?

Denzel Washington is directly in front (to the left in this pic) of the large viewing tower, down the aisle, in a blue winter hat. Behind him is P. Puffy Diddy Daddy Combs.

LOL at Gatorade product placement. Maybe that’s where the millions came from. This is a seriously cool photo. As for people sleeping, I highly doubt it. Sometimes you just need to look down when you’re sitting for stretches, especially if you’re writing something down. Or Twittering.

Is Waldo the Arab-looking guy seemingly out of place wearing a keffiyeh, between two guys who look like Columbia Univeristy Deans?

On the back building there are assassins, omg! that or bodyguards

Don’t forget Palin blowing $120,000 of campaign money on clothes, and another $40,000 for her Hubby. If McCain won, the inauguration would involver her flying down in a blimp shaped into a golden Jesus. I actualy wish they did win, I like the progessive human suffering that could have taken place, and gotten a good laugh in the process.

Sorry to break it to your conservatives. The total cost of Bush’s inauguration in 05′ is as follows.

When the costs incurred by the federal government and the District of Columbia are factored in, the total cost of Bush’s 2005 inauguration was reportedly around $157 million, as Media Matters for America senior fellow Eric Boehlert noted.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200901180003

Also, the total out of pocket costs for Obama’s inauguration was only $45 million. Not $80 million or whatever that idiot said.

So yeah, the conservatives lose again. Losers

Itzhak (sp?)Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma are taking pictures.

what a privileged balcony, just left the photographer’s place. ‘Best seat on the house’

Great view and only a wheelchair man with a yellow scarf, a woman in black and a third man not interested in what’s happening bellow.

The same balcony on the other side, is full of people

At the bottom of the stairs from the draped entryway, look to the right of the screen and some lady has a mysterious floating toupee on her head…ironically, look down and to the left at the guy with the black, probably real one…

CNN had something kind of like this, they took viewer photos uploaded to their site and used some software tool to make multiple 3D images of the event!!

Now this is neat. Gore looks none too happy about something. He doesn’t seem to be with the crowd in giving applause to whatever the messiah just said.

Barbara and George Sr. have some pretty cool (well, actually warm) headgear. George Sr. looks like a coyote is sleeping on his head. Barbara looks like they were just leaving the house, realized it was going to cold and she grabbed someone else’s ear muffs out of the glove box.