Check out this site, which features a very-wide-angle photo of Harlem. (Actually it's a "stitched panorama" made up of a couple thousand photos taken from the same vantage point.) Then use the tools at the bottom (especially the triangle) and zoom in wherever you like. Check out the resolution on the close-ups -- amazing considering what's in the total image. I shudder to think what technology this powerful could do in the wrong hands.
Comments (3)
Note the wide stance of the individual on the right.
That is interesting. It took them 2.5 hours just to shoot all the pictures, so how they were able to make this look like roughly the same exposure is fascinating.
Hate to mention, but satellite photo-telemetry has resolutions like this already (like beign able to see a pack of cigarettes from 25 miles up.)
(Satellite cameras can read a license plate. From 'space.' IF anyone was interested in the boring visible wavelengths of the spectrum ....)
Jack, can we define 'the wrong hands' and 'the right hands.' That would be 'them' and 'us,' I suppose, whoever 'us' is and whoever the 'them' du jour may be.
Point being, some technology is intrinsically a bad idea, and evil concoction. Like nuclear bombs. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' hands to hold it. It is absolute power, and whoever holds it becomes absolutely corrupted, powercrazed, mad with visions of immortality -- no matter how goody-goody two-shoed 'right'-handed they were when the bad idea came to them to hold.
The very idea that there are 'wrong hands' and 'right hands' is where elitism and bigotry and prejudice and fascism and racism and homophobia and misanthropy begins. You ain't no better 'right hands' than nobody. Nor am I. There are no 'wrong hands,' there are only 'our hands.'
At any given minute there are some disadvantaged, who are 'wrong' to cheat, (steal, abuse, inflict wrong), to 'catch up.' Yet the task is, clearly, to set everyone equal in everyone's eyes -- and 'equal' does NOT mean 'each the same.' As much as anything, in those terms it means 'each equally unique.'
All is gained in agreeing that the proper task at hand is seen: equal under the law, justice. Sure, it is going to take a couple generations, at least, to 'educate' everyone equally, no dropouts, no exceptions. So let's get started.
It only takes thirty years, say, of peace, and in it attending to the task. Which is the extinction of poverty and royalty, illiteracy and ignominy, prisons and exceptions 'above the law,' and a few players to be named later.
Such peace is the very target rightism aims deliberately to interrupt. The plan of rightism ( = self-devotion) is to preclude and pre-empt all plans. To oppose, and withhold cooperation in, any universal uniform plan, and beyond that to sabotage any plans that start. To prevent peace. Rightism is planning on no plan at all.
Rightism invents enemies -- 'them' -- and the concept of enemy, in the first example of themself. WE have no enemies; rightists are their own enemy.
Each must balance responsibility to self and responsibility to group, community, society. Learned from childhood by imitating role models, as were all the good teachers we each had and remember them for being. Each 'student' (child) has a different 'good teacher.'
The hands which should hold all the top secret snoopy-eye surveillance technology, and product, from satellites on down, to the one on the lightpole in front of your house, is our public hands. ALL visual (photo) output ON THE INTERNET. Everyone see everything. Especially since we all paid the taxes that invented it and now operate it. The day we choose to stop paying those taxes, elitist exceptional royal better-than-you-and-me 'right hands' stop operating.
Please, please, help yourself lose the myth addiction that there are boogeymen and 'wrong hands' in humankind. There are only our hands, and all are 'right hands' except for some who took some selfish advantage and went 'wrong.' Because they thought that 'wrong' existed.
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 21
At this date last year: 52
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (3)
Note the wide stance of the individual on the right.
Posted by Allan L. | September 10, 2007 7:10 AM
That is interesting. It took them 2.5 hours just to shoot all the pictures, so how they were able to make this look like roughly the same exposure is fascinating.
Hate to mention, but satellite photo-telemetry has resolutions like this already (like beign able to see a pack of cigarettes from 25 miles up.)
Posted by Steve | September 10, 2007 1:51 PM
(Satellite cameras can read a license plate. From 'space.' IF anyone was interested in the boring visible wavelengths of the spectrum ....)
Jack, can we define 'the wrong hands' and 'the right hands.' That would be 'them' and 'us,' I suppose, whoever 'us' is and whoever the 'them' du jour may be.
Point being, some technology is intrinsically a bad idea, and evil concoction. Like nuclear bombs. There are no 'right' or 'wrong' hands to hold it. It is absolute power, and whoever holds it becomes absolutely corrupted, powercrazed, mad with visions of immortality -- no matter how goody-goody two-shoed 'right'-handed they were when the bad idea came to them to hold.
The very idea that there are 'wrong hands' and 'right hands' is where elitism and bigotry and prejudice and fascism and racism and homophobia and misanthropy begins. You ain't no better 'right hands' than nobody. Nor am I. There are no 'wrong hands,' there are only 'our hands.'
At any given minute there are some disadvantaged, who are 'wrong' to cheat, (steal, abuse, inflict wrong), to 'catch up.' Yet the task is, clearly, to set everyone equal in everyone's eyes -- and 'equal' does NOT mean 'each the same.' As much as anything, in those terms it means 'each equally unique.'
All is gained in agreeing that the proper task at hand is seen: equal under the law, justice. Sure, it is going to take a couple generations, at least, to 'educate' everyone equally, no dropouts, no exceptions. So let's get started.
It only takes thirty years, say, of peace, and in it attending to the task. Which is the extinction of poverty and royalty, illiteracy and ignominy, prisons and exceptions 'above the law,' and a few players to be named later.
Such peace is the very target rightism aims deliberately to interrupt. The plan of rightism ( = self-devotion) is to preclude and pre-empt all plans. To oppose, and withhold cooperation in, any universal uniform plan, and beyond that to sabotage any plans that start. To prevent peace. Rightism is planning on no plan at all.
Rightism invents enemies -- 'them' -- and the concept of enemy, in the first example of themself. WE have no enemies; rightists are their own enemy.
Each must balance responsibility to self and responsibility to group, community, society. Learned from childhood by imitating role models, as were all the good teachers we each had and remember them for being. Each 'student' (child) has a different 'good teacher.'
The hands which should hold all the top secret snoopy-eye surveillance technology, and product, from satellites on down, to the one on the lightpole in front of your house, is our public hands. ALL visual (photo) output ON THE INTERNET. Everyone see everything. Especially since we all paid the taxes that invented it and now operate it. The day we choose to stop paying those taxes, elitist exceptional royal better-than-you-and-me 'right hands' stop operating.
Please, please, help yourself lose the myth addiction that there are boogeymen and 'wrong hands' in humankind. There are only our hands, and all are 'right hands' except for some who took some selfish advantage and went 'wrong.' Because they thought that 'wrong' existed.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | September 10, 2007 11:22 PM