Originally Posted By Dabob2 You can zoom in and out on anything you like, go basically all around the place. Zooming in on W and Mr. Potter is especially delicious. Strange headgear on the Justices, too. There are weirdnesses inherent in this technology (check out the hat with no one beneath it next to Aretha!), but this is really a great piece of work. He has a bunch of suggested views with comments, or you can just go all around yourself. Check out the faces in the crowd, the famous faces up higher (and some famous faces amongst the masses), etc. etc. etc. <a href="http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=15374&window_height=622&window_width=1009" target="_blank">http://www.gigapan.org/viewGig...dth=1009</a>
Originally Posted By Mr X Freaky. I found Obi-Wan Kenobi. He's sitting a few rows back, behind President Obama to the Presidents' left!
Originally Posted By markymouse A couple of things I noticed Al Gore was there. I would never take that kind of chance. I'm not sure about Hillary either, for that matter. George and Barbara Bush are sitting with the Clintons, not with George W. I'm sure that is just a matter of protocol. But it does give a funny impression.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Al Gore was there. I would never take that kind of chance.*** I believe all the former VP's were there. I saw Dan Quayle on the video, anyway (or maybe it was just Quayle and Gore..I dunno).
Originally Posted By beamerdog Justice Thomas looks very grumpy. Or else he was sleeping. Thanks, Dabob2. Very cool site, indeed.
Originally Posted By Mr X How would you look if you'd just been roundly booed by nearly two million people live? ;p
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I believe all the former VP's were there. I saw Dan Quayle on the video, anyway (or maybe it was just Quayle and Gore..I dunno).<< All the living ex-VPs were there: Mondale, GHW Bush, Quayle, Gore, and Cheney. I've read that Mondale, Quayle, and Gore were introduced together, but I can't find a picture.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "How would you look if you'd just been roundly booed by nearly two million people live?" Oh. I assumed it was because Cheney broke wind.
Originally Posted By Mr X Noone else found Obi Wan Kenobi yet? It's pretty cool (he's really there, about 8-10 rows behind the Prez...must be a secret service gig or something!).
Originally Posted By beamerdog I haven't found him yet - what are the people wearing around him? However, my kids pointed out that the guy with the red scarf about 4 rows behind the ex-prez looks like Yoda, lol.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Very cool technology. My immediate response to the image was... It is too ridiculously cold to be holding this ceremony outdoors. Give these people a break.
Originally Posted By SuperDry Imagine how much bigger the crowd might have been had the weather been nice! Besides, where would you put even a small fraction of those people indoors? It does remind me of one of President Reagan's inaugurations, where they canceled the parade, or at least the marching bands in them, because it was too cold. Many of the school bands were heartbroken, after having prepared for the event and traveled to DC, but the decision was made that it was just too cold to hold the parade as planned. I don't remember if that was 1980 or 1984.
Originally Posted By avromark ^^^ And you claim to be from Michigan? Remember what the President (and his daughter) said about the snow closing of his daughters school in Washington?
Originally Posted By Mr X Interestingly, the Inauguration USED to be in March, reason being back in the horse and buggy days it took a full few months for the transition to be worked out. The real question is, instead of pushing the Inauguration BACK, why didn't they just move the elections forward a couple of months (to late January, perhaps)? Dummies. ALTHOUGH, I suppose that would lead to issues with election turnout. Oh well.
