Call me old-timey, but I prefer my lunar rovers on the moon or—barring that—on some sort of rocky facsimile, not rolling up Pennsylvania Avenue. Only thing worse? Dudes wearing spacesuits on earth. [More at Jalopnik]
If, like me, you thought there was something a little off with the performance of John Williams’s Oscar-grabbing inauguration theme, you were right. What we heard was a recording made two days prior.
We’ve all seen the iconic imagery of the day again and again: the nervous smile as the oath went haywire, the rapt crowds, Aretha’s hat. But what about everything else? It’s all in here.
newVideoPlayer("/CNNWeirdZoom.flv", 475, 376,""); CNN isn’t holding back the Inauguration Day techno-wizardry. In addition to the Photosynth-powered crowdsourced 3D photo and exclusive satellite crowd shot Wolf keeps teasing, CNN debuted its exclusive SuperQuickZoom tech, seen here.
newVideoPlayer("/CNN_3Dpic.flv", 506, 423,""); Wolf has been somewhat confusedly hyping CNN’s “PhotoSynth moment,” much to Anderson Cooper’s chagrin, and behold, here it is, presented by CNN’s intrepid multitouch whiz John King. Wait, there’s Oprah!
An event like the inauguration is a great excuse for the FBI to roll out all of its super-expensive security gear, like a truck you can explode a live bomb in without hurting anyone.
Using her Kodak*, Malia grabs a shot (or maybe video) of her father giving the Inaugural Address today.
Because sometimes Aretha Franklin wears a hat to the inauguration that words simply cannot describe.
