Comments on: Super-cool high-res pan-and-zoom inauguration pic

By: MikeS

MikeS — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:43:52 +0000

2-3 rows in front of the photographer, to the left (right in front of a guy standing) there is green tape on one of the hand rails. Someone wrote…”2 stagehands walk into a bar…the second one…” and I can’t make out the rest. Anyone know the rest of that joke?

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:15:18 +0000

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.

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:50:47 +0000

Dick Cheney is Dr. Strangelove. Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:52:46 +0000

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.

By: jm1656

jm1656 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:44:40 +0000

i love the guy quoting Media Matters. like its a legit source. ha ha

By: akhan246

akhan246 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:09:43 +0000

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!!

By: teej

teej — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:59:35 +0000

OMG! I found THE THING from The Addams Family!
If you zoom in on Obama and go left, following the stars and stripes banner to the light post on the corner, then look up and to the left at one of the (it looks like a security guy) He’s being accosted by THE THING!! LOL

By: teej

teej — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:51:17 +0000

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…

By: Mr. Binky

Mr. Binky — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:44:19 +0000

Somebody find Ray Allen.

By: Poly

Poly — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:11:44 +0000

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

By: ted

ted — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:34:09 +0000

Wow, you guys’ll argue about everything, won’t you?

I just wonder if having that many severed heads at your inauguration is a good omen or a bad one?

By: ken c

ken c — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:31:42 +0000

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

By: Jerseygirl

Jerseygirl — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:39:36 +0000

There’s a guy in the crowd talking on his cellphone when he SHOULD be listening to the speech of the century. Don’t ask me where he is, I’ll never find it again…

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:24:00 +0000

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

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:15:13 +0000

yes, Gauldar. Yes.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:06:02 +0000

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.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:01:27 +0000

Adam, you’re sooo wrong. He would have deployed all 100 gazillion of his nukes, as well as the chemical and biological nightmare missile stuffs, but they would’ve all be aimed at Las Vegas. Sadaam hated Vegas.

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:50:08 +0000

I love this sudden concern on the part of our conservative commentators re: the cost of the inauguration.

These are the folks who stood by cheering over the past eight years while a record surplus was magically transformed into a record deficit.

This transformation only happened as a result of 9/11, which was Bill Clinton’s fault. Furthermore, had the Bush Administration not created a $10 trillion deficit over the past eight years, Saddam Hussein would have deployed one of the nuclear weapons from his vast arsenal against a major American city – probably New York.

By: Denara

Denara — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:22:44 +0000

ozlbkilo: If you’re talking about the woman in africanish clothing… is she his Kenyan grandma?

By: Jbot

Jbot — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:52:17 +0000

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

By: Jett

Jett — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:15:37 +0000

interesting blog entry about cost of inauguration which seems to have been inflated by the media:

http://tinyurl.com/buszv2

Also never mind that Iraq has cost well over $500B USD which comes to over $270M per day.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:50:18 +0000

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

By: ozlbkilo

ozlbkilo — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:47:57 +0000

Aunt Jimima in white just left of the light pole on left side of stage.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:41:20 +0000

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.

By: Jim Bowers

Jim Bowers — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:36:56 +0000

Nice photo, but sloppy stretching of the multiple images. Many examples are fairly easy to catch. Check out the edge of the white zoom lens in the foreground…part of it’s missing. Many heads “severed” partially as well. Fun to catch the mistakes actually.

By: twoeightnine

twoeightnine — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:19:31 +0000

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.

By: oblate spheroid

oblate spheroid — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:10:38 +0000

Headless man: Find blue covered camera on right side of upper seating. Move up ’till you run out of people.

Directly down from that, under the very first glass lamp, to the left, there is a guy with his hat sliced off and moved over a foot.

By: nich

nich — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:05:07 +0000

Where’s Winfrey?

By: Aye Chihuahua

Aye Chihuahua — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:22:11 +0000

Roadtripcrazed,

The crowd was only 700,000.

How does that affect the price per head?

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:22:07 +0000

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…..”)

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:10:15 +0000

@Carl
80-100 MILLION DOLLARS of the inauguration was out of taxpayers money.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:00:15 +0000

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.

By: eh

eh — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:57:45 +0000

there are some feet with no body under the tower in the audience. and half of a person a little below that. it looks like they may be his feet…

By: Lenny Nero

Lenny Nero — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:36:32 +0000

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.

By: twoeightnine

twoeightnine — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:26:18 +0000

The blond is up in the top section in the front row behind the chain link fence. White hat on, close to a guy with a Dolphins hat.

By: twoeightnine

twoeightnine — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:22:58 +0000

@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.

By: babyhip

babyhip — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:11:57 +0000

There’s a guy 4 or 5 rows behind Aretha wearing what looks like a strand of leaves??

where’s the hot blonde?

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:03:45 +0000

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

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

By: wpdunn71901

wpdunn71901 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:01:34 +0000

Can’t wait for the
“Super-cool high-res pan-and-zoom clean up the godawful mess the hypocritical lefties left inauguration pic”

By: shecky

shecky — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:45:08 +0000

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.

By: Easterbunny Slim

Easterbunny Slim — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:37:44 +0000

I see you biting your nails, Mr. You can’t hide.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb224/minapoozle/bitenails.jpg

e.slim

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:25:58 +0000

@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.

By: twoeightnine

twoeightnine — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:05:10 +0000

- Clarence Thomas is asleep.
- I’m pretty sure CW Louise Slaughter is asleep too. Or they caught her at the exact point that she closed her eyes and tilted her head.
- Someone 6 rows behind Thomas is completely passed out.
- Jenna Bush’s husband isn’t even sitting next to her.
- Lots of blue blankets. I wonder if they have any inauguration markings or the Presidential seal.
- There’s another women with a huge bow on her hat a few rows behind Aretha.
- Way too many tacky Burberry scarves.
- Yo-Yo Ma is taking a photo with his iPhone 1G.
- There’s a really hot blond sitting all alone.

By: lordunger

lordunger — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:03:44 +0000

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?

By: janedoh

janedoh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:51:21 +0000

Back by the big white scaffolding is two legs w/feet, just having a little walkies.
Oh wait that’s me….yeah, I was there.

By: mrsmokeybear

mrsmokeybear — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:42:28 +0000

I found Waldo

By: Lore

Lore — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:40:38 +0000

Zoom zoom zoom! I love how much you can see!

Is the guy in the middle wearing an Oregon hat!?

By: roadtripcrazed

roadtripcrazed — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:34:29 +0000

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.

By: Slaughterhouse

Slaughterhouse — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:30:07 +0000

Aretha Franklin has a goatee!

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:28:06 +0000

I think Cheney’s cane has a sword hidden inside – for hand-to-hand combat in case things got hairy right there behind the podium.