Eadweard Muybridge: Panorama of San Francisco 1878
Stunning panorama of SanFran by the photographer better known for racing horses through tripwires.
This scene was pretty much wiped from the face of the earth in the 1906 earthquake.
I have assembled the 13 images (shot by 13 cameras) into one in tattyshop and it looks fantastic...but the file size is huge, any offers to host it or ideas where I can appreciated.
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 18:30,
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You should
put a request out on Reddit. Am sure some of the SF web dev companies would host that for you
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BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 18:50,
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Ooooh, now THAT is bloomin interesting!
Specially so when you realise that's 132 years ago, THREE years before the gunfight at the OK corral, and TEN years before Jack the Ripper did his 'thing' over in London!
The tall ships over in the harbour make this for me :)
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:04,
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Isn't it.
I was reading about the Tate exhibition about him and did a bit more research to find the 13 plates. Check out the link to the c**t who put a fence around three sides of someones property!
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:08,
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ha ha bloody hell...
what an utter git!
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:14,
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Looking at it further it's kind of an inadvertent snap shot of the end of an era.
The next decade saw an explosion of technology. First combustion engine by MercBenz, radiowaves, phonographs, skyscrapers....
It is a bit eerie. You could think that the photo was maybe as late as the 40's (?) love the tall ships too. I wonder how long it took for Muybridge to travel to SF?
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:38,
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gets a click from me purely for being to do with
Muybridge!
I'm off to the exhibition this week if i get the chance as well!
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Si o doom Fund me! No catering cost involved! bit.ly/1bFtzN2, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:24,
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Shorpy
I'm sure you internet savvy people already know, but there's lots of other wonderful old photography on the shorpy.com site. Cool one of Custer here: www.shorpy.com/George-Armstrong-Custer-1 from 1865, and lots of others like it.
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Nice!
You could use something like zoomify. I think there are a few panorama specific sites out there too. This is woo-some!
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Just upload the combined image to Wikimedia Commons, and give it a "copyright expired" tag
Like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 9:42,
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