Great lecture yesterday night at MOPA (Museum of Photographic Arts) in Balboa Park, San Diego by Graham Flint of the Gigapxl project. I wonder if any of DPCers were there besides me? He gave an hour-long entertaining and very informative description of his super-camera and the whole enterprise, and then spent another hour or more answering our questions in the gallery in front of his amazing photos. They are well on the way to completion of their ambitious "Portarit of America" project which will include a couple of thousands of photos of landmarks from all national parks, all states, major cityscapes, etc.
An interesting news he "leaked" that they got into an agreement with Google and plan to do a "Portrait of the World" - a massive effort of shooting every interesting/endangered landmark in the world at multi-Gpx resolution. Of course it will demand resources far beyond Graham Flint's personal means, dozens of cameras, teams of potographers, etc. Presumably, Google plans to eventually post it all on their website so you can zoom in on any tiny part of it, similar to what you can do now with satellite maps at maps.google.com . I think this is a truly exciting development, and I applaude Graham Flint for his vision and starting it all.
Addendum: The exhibition is open until September 18, 2005. By the way, iconcurrently they have a wonderful exhibition of Steve McCurry's photography "Photographs of Asia", running through Sept. 25. Steve himself will give a public lecture at MOPA on Sept.15.
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