{"id":760,"date":"2007-09-08T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/09\/13-gigapixels-or-bust-sketchy-photogs-more.html"},"modified":"2007-09-08T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T15:20:38","slug":"13_gigapixels_or_bust_sketchy_photogs_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/13_gigapixels_or_bust_sketchy_photogs_more\/","title":{"rendered":"13 gigapixels or bust; sketchy photogs; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectaclethebook.com\/gallery.html\"><em>Spectacle<\/em><\/a>, photographers David Rockwell &amp; Bruce Mau &quot;celebrate the phenomenon and history of communal, awe-inspiring public performance worldwide&#8211;from the stadium to the streets, from religious festivals to political marches.&quot;&#160; Dig the really well-chosen type treatments as well. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/22\/spectacle-book-of-ma.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>For a different kind of spectacle, see <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com\/\">Harlem in 13 Gigapixels<\/a><\/i>. Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerardmaynard.org\/\">Gerard Maynard<\/a> &amp; software developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autopano.net\/\">Alexandre Jenny<\/a> have teamed up to create a massive image of the famous New York neighborhood.&#160; With results spanning 279,689 x 46,901 pixels, the project&#8217;s raw numbers<br \/>\nare pretty eye-popping:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2,045 individual photos from a Nikon D2X<\/li>\n<li>21.49 GB of compressed raw data<\/li>\n<li>1 day for image placement and color correction<\/li>\n<li>46 hours of rendering on an 8-core Xeon system with 8GB of RAM <\/li>\n<li>Results: A single <u>48.8 GB image<\/u> stored in the Photoshop Large Document format (.PSB), converted via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoomify.com\/\">Zoomify<\/a> &amp; displayed through the Flash Player.<br \/>\n[Via Maria Brenny]&#160; (If this is up your alley, see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/10\/colossal_images.html\">previous<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ah, the 1950&#8217;s, when you had to be the lookout for &quot;corn-fed belles&quot; hanging out of trees along the road, ready to disrobe in your U-Haul trailer.&#160; At least that&#8217;s the world conjured up by the (more than a little creepy) <a href=\"http:\/\/ziza.ru\/2007\/09\/03\/Glamour_Photography__Summer_1957_67_foto.html\"><em>Glamour Photography<\/em> magazine<\/a>&#8211;one &quot;designed to give the camera man a better understanding of the technical and philosophical aspects of photographing pretty girls.&quot;&#160; Philosophy&#8211;yes, that&#8217;s it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/151743344\/scan-of-1957-magazin.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Elsewhere in history, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/tbl.squareamerica.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/the_way_of_all.html\">50 years of a woman&#8217;s life<\/a>, as told by photos bought at a garage sale.&#160; Note to self: Keep trying not to get old. <\/li>\n<li>Clayton James Cubitt shares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claytoncubitt.com\/art\/galleries.php?gid=23\">portraits of Hurricane Katrina survivors<\/a>.&#160; (I&#8217;m a big fan of Flash galleries in general, but in this case I think the jerky transitions distract from the subject matter.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/29\/hurricane-katrina-2.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spectacle, photographers David Rockwell &amp; Bruce Mau &quot;celebrate the phenomenon and history of communal, awe-inspiring public performance worldwide&#8211;from the stadium to the streets, from religious festivals to political marches.&quot;&#160; Dig the really well-chosen type treatments as well. [Via] For a different kind of spectacle, see Harlem in 13 Gigapixels. Photographer Gerard Maynard &amp; software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,59,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}