http://www.vrlog.net 360 Cities' panorama photography weblog. Virtual Reality to show you the world. Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:45:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 360Cities was featured on the BBC! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8176497.stm http://www.vrlog.net/2009/07/360cities-on-the-bbc/ Obama in Prague Click and drag the image to move around. Use shift/ctrl to zoom. Click on "embed this" to put this panorama on your own site :) http://www.vrlog.net/2009/04/obama-prague/ This is only a rough cut. We have caught screencast fever. So you can expect more in the future. http://www.vrlog.net/2009/03/360-cities-panorama-movie/ Our illustrious and prolific member from Szeged, Hungary, Tibor Illes, pointed me to this news report from a few days ago, featuring Tibor, and a very nice demo of 360Cities and Google Earth. http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/tibor-illes-360-cities-hungarian-tv/ Here are a few links to interesting things some folks have come across. Click 'read more' down at the bottom to get a couple thousand more. Csongrad County: Makó City Hall from 360 Cities Oktoberfest 2007 – 360 Cities from www.360cities.net Oktoberfest 2007 – 360 Cities from www.360cities.net Microsoft’s IE 8 Compatibility List: Is it working?... from blogs.zdnet.com 中國: ... http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/mega-mega-link-dump/ Hiroharu Shizuya has made quite an amazing image. I'm not sure how he did it... Click the image to open the panorama: [caption id="attachment_555" align="alignnone" width="768" caption="extreme ironing 360 panorama"][/caption] http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/extreme-ironing-underwater-panorama/ Try zooming out.... View Larger Map http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/airplane-graveyard/ Minority Report remains the standard by which all futuristic User Interfaces are judged. This one looks very promising indeed. g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/oblong-futuristic-user-interface/ Well, I'd guessed it would be "Google Ocean" so in some sense I guessed right - the big announcement planned by Google for today is a huge update of Google Earth - Version 5.0! And among other things, yes, the much-rumoured "Google Ocean" is now reality - Google Earth now ... http://www.vrlog.net/2009/02/google-earth-50/ I've just discovered the Google Earth / Maps gadget. Just throw in a KML file (luckily 360cities has a KML file for the world, for every city, and every photographer, including the spherical PhotoOverlays you see here, so that work was already done) Use the controls or your mouse wheel to ... http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/see-havana/ This is the way the CHDK advertises itself: Unleash the POWER in your "PowerShot!" It really is an amazing thing: a couple of the main actions are timelapse (interval) and motion detection. Motion detection is so fast that it can catch a lightning! Amazing isn't it!? And with Timelapse your imagination is the ... http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/chdk-unleash-the-power-in-your-powershot/ It's not every day that you get a chance to photograph your head with a scanning, panoramic X-Ray camera. I had that chance on May 29, 2006. Here is the result. view Panoramic photography of Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panorama-inside-mouth/ Here is another stunning panorama from Thierry Blondeau - a mountain view with some ancient graffiti (petroglyphs) on the side of the mountain. view Panoramic photography of France http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/petroglyphs-ancient-graffiti/ Here is one of many of Stefan Geens' spectacular panoramic photos from his recent trip to Egypt. You can read more about it on his blog, Ogle Earth. Be sure to click the "fullscreen" button in the top left of the image! view Panoramic photography of Inner Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Seti ... http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/panoramic-photos-of-abydos-by-stefan-geens/ One of my favorite old panoramic images, shot in 2005. A bunch of lunatics playing football in the deep winter snowing madness, in the mud, in Letna Park, Prague: view Crazy Football in Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/crazy-football/ Frank Taylor of the always-informative Google Earth Blog has blogged about this great image of a U2 Spyplane, captured in-flight on Google Earth! Who is watching who, now? :-) Click the images to open this location in Google Earth. http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/people-watching-machines-watching-machines-watching-people/ While the state of the art of Panoramic Photography has progressed in incredible ways over the last few years, there is still one type of photography stitching that is still a kind of black art: multi-viewpoint "planar" panoramas. Think of an image of all the facades on a street - ... http://www.vrlog.net/2009/01/how-to-photograph-and-stitch-very-long-scenes/ click to open fullscreen panorama. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/another-acrobatic-skiing-panorama/ Despite the continuing warming of the globe there´s still snow in La Colmiane, France http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/peautiful-scenery-and-nice-editing/ This thing is absolutely worth of exploring... Read more http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/deep-earth-released-into-the-wild/ Panoramas like this one, by Dieter Kik, remind me why I became so obsessed with VR Photography in the first place. click to open fullscreen panorama. Great work, Dieter. :-) http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/inside-a-swarm-of-bees/ Via the Google Earth Blog - Google has added an astonishing quantity of 3d building - with photographic textures - into Google Earth. Simply fly to NYC in Google Earth, and turn on the 3d buildings Layer. Pretty amazing :-) http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fly-around-nyc-in-3d/ One of 360cities' most prolific members, Hiroharu Shizuya, just pointed me towards his blog. It looks as good as all of his other work. If you want to view a translated (english) version, use this link. click the image to enter Hiroharu Shizuya's blog. Hiroharu comes from Tokyo and he has created ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/guruguru-360-hiroharu-shizuya/ From the BBC: "Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed." Read more about it on BBC News. In related news, Slashdot reports: "Microsoft quietly released the first update to its IE8 beta 2 to its closest ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/ie-lets-you-browse-the-internet-and-vice-versa/ Ok, who will be the first to build a 3d model / photosynth / object movie / inverted panorama from these thousands of images? :-) click the image above to visit the site. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/fantastic-photo-archive-of-the-leaning-tower-of-pisa/ We've been promised this for a while. Who knows? It could actually arrive, perhaps even before flying cars. Click the screenshot below to go directly to the site and watch the video. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/3d-display-coming-perhaps-this-decade/ This one looks pretty cool! It's 7 megapixels, 3 cameras, 180 degrees horizontal field of view. Put 2 of them back to back and you've got a 360, they say. It is nice and flat, so that might actually work pretty well... although they didn't have any examples of this on ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/a-new-pano-video-security-camera/ Microsoft has ported their excellent Seadragon to the iPhone. It's essentially a tile-based image viewer. That means, an image of infinitely large resolution can be shown, by supplying a set of image tiles for each resolution. Simple idea but extremely powerful. And in this case it is implemented very well ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/seadragon-on-iphone/ Thierry Blondeau has made me very jealous with this panorama of a cheese cellar. This looks like a delightful place, and I bet the cheese is as tasty as it looks.... click the image to open the panorama. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/a-cellar-full-of-cheese/ Jann Lipka just published this lovely panorama of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. Click on the image to open the fullscreen panorama. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/niagara-falls-panorama/ According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/viewing-other-peoples-dreams-while-they-sleep/ I didn't think Photosynth was an "end product". It's just a start, from the looks of it: From slashdot: Microsoft recently updated ESP, a virtual reality modeling platform that until now has primarily been used to model aircraft and flight simulations. Microsoft has plans to expand it to other industries such as ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/microsoft-plans-vr-simulation-of-everything/ Via Readwriteweb. Adobe is working on a "virtual world generator". In short, they take a bunch of photos, a la Photosynth, but instead of stitching the overlapping ones together, they figure out which ones are different but can be blended together into an infinitely zooming image. Words don't do it ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/adobe-working-on-a-crazy-virtual-world-generator/ Hitta.se has released an excellent streetview map. The quality of the photographs is very high. While the images are not spherical, it doesn't really matter in this particular application, and I'd trade the higher image quality here compared to Google's streetview. Click on the image below to check it out. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/stockholm-street-view-virtual-map/ click image to open fullscreen panorama. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/archaeologists-office-in-turkey/ Here's another panorama from Willy Kaemena of the Apple Store opening in Munich. Click the image to open a fullscreen panorama. Congrats to Willy for getting the previous panorama of this event on the Apple 2.0 CNN blog! If you haven't seen Willy's other panoramas, you absolutely must start. As he has ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/grand-opening-first-apple-retail-store-munich-germany/ from Engadget: The German outfit Novoflex has just announced an adapter that will allow you to mount Leica lenses onto your Micro Four Thirds system cameras. Due out this month at €149 (about $193), the mount is one in a planned series, with adapters for Leica R, Nikon, Contax / Yashica, ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/use-nearly-any-lens-on-a-micro-four-thirds-camera/ I've just finished a new gigapixel panorama. Below is the whole image - this is at maybe 0.5% size: Below is a tiny selection (shown at 50% of the original size) of this 'super large' image - a 3.7 gigapixel image, to be exact (that's about 105 thousand by 36 thousand ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/graveyard-gigapixel/ Don't you love the profusion of images online? I do. Here is a shot from the fantastic online resurrection of ancient photos, SHORPY, of Michigan avenue, Chicago, in 1962: And the (nearly) same shot from Google Streeview: and finally, our shot from 360cities (not so close as streetview to the same place however) http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/michigan-avenue-45-years-apart/ Modern religion.... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/opening-of-the-apple-store-in-munich/ Via Slashdot, "scientists have succeeded in convincing experiment subjects that a mannequin's body is their own, and even feeling at home in the body of someone of the opposite sex. The effect could prove useful in virtual reality applications and in robot technology. Here's the paper on PLoS ONE." http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/scientists-achieve-mental-body-swapping/ I remember a novel by Stanislaw Lem which said that on on the moon, the stuff in shadow is completely dark. Because there is no air to scatter the light, things are either illuminated, or not. So the black stuff in this image is not just underexposed - it's something ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/moon-360-panorama/ ...has finally arrived! click on the image below to try it on 360cities. if you don't have the plugin installed, you'll be prompted to install it automatically. It's a 45mb download, and you have to restart your browser, but this is worth it, trust me :-) You can see our first attempt at ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/12/google-earth-plugin-for-mac/ click to open fullscreen panorama! http://www.vrlog.net/2008/09/koripallojoukkue-joensuun-kataja/ Oklahoma City, founded in the Land Run of 1889, is the capitol of the State of Oklahoma. With a population of over one-half million within the city limits and over 1,200,000 in the greater metropolitan area Oklahoma City is the 30th largest city in the United States. The Oklahoma State Capitol ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/05/route-66-oklahoma-state-capitol/ Click image to open Full screen Panoramas! This is one of the "must sees" of Brugge. Modest white houses watch out over a grassy courtyard and rustling trees, creating a soothing atmosphere for the weary ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/05/bruges-beguinage-begijnhof-the-beguinage/ Click image to open Fullscreen Panorama! Home of the Mayor of Turin. Luci d'Artista: Daniel Buren, "Flying carpet" http://www.vrlog.net/2008/05/turin-piazza-palazzo-di-citta/ Wow, this will be interesting. Google just released a google maps API for flash! Link and Link. More technical info on afcomponents.com. http://www.vrlog.net/2008/05/flash-api-for-google-maps/ http://www.vrlog.net/2008/05/havana-3-panoramas/ Click image to open fullscreen panorama! Panorama by Jeffrey Martin, Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2008/05/google-maps-launch-czech-republic/ A small lake in Villa Borghese, where you can row on a small boat Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Toni Garbasso, Rome http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/roma-giardin-del-lago/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Jeffrey Martin, Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/prague-the-very-last-runners-of-the-half-marathon/ Imagine yourself sitting at the chair of Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the Russian State Duma, transfer to the seat of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, and finally get in the reception hall of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Click the image to open ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/moscow-state-duma/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Fire Hell, Chongqing http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/chongqing-nengren-temple-nuns-5/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Sara Caccivio, Florence http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/florence-battistero/ St Ann's Well Gardens is a popular public park in Hove, of ancient trees and winding pathways about half a mile inland from the sea. It includes a bowling green, tennis courts, a children's play area and a well-stocked fish pond replenished by a trickle of water from a much ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/brighton-hove-st-anns-well-park/ Click the image to open an intecative full screen panorama! Panorama by Jeffrey Martin, Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/prague-prague-zoo/ This windmill stands now on the edge of a mini golf course at the western end of the city limits overlooking Rottingdean itself. Brighton city centre can be seen in the distance at the far right of the horizon of the sea. Click the image to open an interactive full ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/brighton-hove-rottingdean-windmill/ In front of the bicycle taxi (faxi) work shop Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Willy Kaemena, Vienna http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/vienna-zieglergasse-7-bezirk/ Already April 7, 2008 and almost no sign of the spring Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Willy Kaemena, Bremen http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/bremen-pedestrian-bridge-over-the-wall-at-bischofstor/ We're just cleaning up after Easter lunch at our friends' house in the countryside. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Jeff Martin, Prague http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/prague-relaxing-in-the-kitchen/ Inokashira park is famous as the showplace of cherry blossoms. It is a downtown oasis in a very big park. A lot of cherry blossoms bloom in spring, and the feast of enjoying seeing cherry blossom is held here and there. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/tokyo-cherry-blossoms-full-bloomed-2/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Sara Caccivio, Florence http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/florence-piazza-della-liberta/ Saturday 04-05-2008 More or less 100 people, in front of Palazzo Ducale, Piazzetta S. Marco, froze for 2minutes, while doing what they were doing, from 12.00 to 12.02. see   40xvenezia.ning.com site for details Click the image to open an interactive full screen panos! Panoramas by Luca Vascon, Venice http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/venice-frozen/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Florence city guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/florence-buskers/ The expressway runs here and there on the ground in Tokyo. Moreover, the subway is running like a cobweb underground. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Hiroharu Shizuya, Tokyo http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/tokyo-the-sky-in-city/ Since almost 70 under same ownership. Famous and typical viennese Cafe House. Owner Mr. Leopold Hawelka is now (2008) 97 years old and still for some hours in his Cafe. Don't expect Starbucks atmosphere.... but a travel back in time. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/vienna-cafe-hawelka/ Spring arriving in one of the most beautiful parks of Rome Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Toni Garbasso, Rome http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/roma-villa-borghese/ It is a park on the west side of Shinjuku. Cherry blossoms flower in spring, and the lawn area is opened. A lot of tourists are visited. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Hiroharu Shizuya, Tokyo http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/tokyo-cherry-blossoms-full-bloomed/ The Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen (Dutch) or Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (French) is a glazed shopping arcade in Brussels that preceded other famous 19th-century shopping arcades such as the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. The gallery consists of two mayor sections, each more than 100 meters ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/brussels-belgium-galerie-de-la-reine-koninginnegallerij/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Andrey Ilyin - pano360.ru, Moscow http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/moscow-muar-the-ruined-annex/ Click the image to open an interactive panorama! Panorama by Florence virtual city guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/florence-santa-felicita/ At the western end of the City is the Hove esplanade. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Geoff Mather, Brighton http://www.vrlog.net/2008/04/brighton-hove-esplanade/ "Nostalgie"- one of the first that had appeard in the post-soviet time, 14 years ago. The management of Nostalgie is committed to the highest standards of service, that's why here has appeared on of the first vine storages, ensuring the preserving of the vine quality. The cuisine - French, author recipes ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/moscow-restaurant-nostalgie/ Building of the historical ship "de Delft" Hans Klop Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Hans Klop, Rotterdam http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/rotterdam-shipyard-de-delft/ The Central Police Station (traditional Chinese: 中區警署) is located at the eastern end of Hollywood Road, in Central, Hong Kong. The oldest structure within the police station was built in 1864; it is a three-storey barrack block constructed adjacent to Victoria Prison. A storey was later added to the block ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/hong-kong-central-police-station/ Click image to experience our 360 panoramic video, driving through Prague :-)   http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/panoramic-video-is-born/ In the 5th and 6th century many Slavonic tribes lived here, and the tribe of Pšovans created its main settlement in Mělník. Saint Ludmila, who married the Bohemian prince Bořivoj, belonged to this tribe. Denar coins of the princesss Emma are the first demonstration of the existence of Mělník. In ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/bohemia-the-tower-in-melnik/ Last leg of the trek back to Jomsom from Muktinath. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Nepal virtual guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/nepal-trail-back-to-jomsom-along-kali-gandaki/ for a fantastic friend, in memory of a perfect day, in which she told me things about me I would not ever been aware of. Thank-you seems never enough. But sometimes is the only one thing we have left to say. Per una amica fantastica, in memoria di una ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/venice-a-perfect-day/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Torsten Hemke, Frankfurt http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/frankfurt-maintower/ A step ascent in very windy conditions between Kagbeni and Muktinath. Many Indian people, including the elderly, come on pilgrimage here to an important Shiva temple in Muktinath. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Nepal virtual guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/nepal-road-up-to-muktinath-from-kagbeni/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Florence city guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/florence-firenze-santa-croce/ The White Pagoda in Beihai Park, Beijing. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Jesse Lee, Beijing http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/beijing-the-white-pagoda/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Florence city guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/florence-firenze-piazza-della-signoria/ It is a famous Chidorigahuchi park in the showplace of cherry blossoms. It is a bud that seems to begin to bloom at any moment. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Hiroharu Shizuya, Tokyo http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/tokyo-bud-of-cherry-blossoms/ In the early 1900s, the Arroyo Seco was a popular outing for the people of Pasadena and greater Los Angeles. There were close to 180 cabins nestled along the stream of the Arroyo Seco. After the Pasadena Water Department bought most of the area, the cabins were removed because of ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/los-angeles-upper-arroyo-seco/ Click the image to open an interactive full sceen panorama! Panorama by Andrey Ilyin - pano360.ru, Moscow http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/moscow-rizhskaya-overpass/ Click the image too open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama Florence 360cities http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/florence-firenze-palazzo-pitti/ East of Oatman, Arizona Route-66 passes through hill country rising from the Mojave desert. Look closely and you’ll see a FedEx truck speeding where mule teams and covered wagons once labored. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Louis Davidson, Route 66 http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/route-66-mojave-hills/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Florence city guide http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/florence-firenze-santo-spirito-square/ The monument to the famous Russian opera singer Fedor Shalyapin was mounted in the yard of Shalyapin's home-museum on 31st of June, 2003 Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Andrey Ilyin -pano360.ru, Moscow http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/moscow-the-monument-to-fedor-shalyapin/ 曾家岩50号又称“周公馆”，位于渝中区中山四路。1938年冬，中共代表团由武汉迁移重庆后，为便于工作，周恩来同志以个人名义租赁这幢房子，作为中共南方局在市内的一个主要办公地点。 　　小楼地处街巷尽头，右侧为国民党军统局局长戴笠的公馆，左侧是国民党警察局派出所；楼房内，中共代表团仅租赁了一、三两层，二楼的大部分和底层门厅旁的厨房，均为国民党人居住，真有左右内外夹击之势。 　　1958年11月董必武同志故地重游，曾幽默地作诗记其事:“八年抗日此栖身，‘三打维支’笑语新。戴笠为邻居在右，总看南北过门人。”在二楼和三楼，分别有董必武、叶剑英同志的办公室。1945年8月，毛泽东同志来重庆与蒋介石谈判期间，曾在底层会议室接见中外各界人士，周恩来同志更是经常在此会见各界人士和中外记者。 Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama (sorry, don't know how it sounds in Chinese)! Panorama by Fire Hell, Chongquing http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/chongqing-china-zhou-residence-1/ Adrian, Texas is located only 22 miles from New Mexico in the starkly flat Texas panhandle. This farming town of 159 people boasts of being the mid-point of Route 66. Adrian is 1139 miles from Los Angeles, California and 1139 miles from Chicago, Illinois. Cattle ranching, along with wheat and cotton ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/route-66-route-66-mid-point/ Monument of Frenchman Duke de Richelieu, the famous city governor of the 19th century Odessa, welcomes the tourists arriving by sea way Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Yuriy White, Odessa http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/odessa-monument-of-frenchman-duke-de-richelieu/ Moscow was holding a parade on Sunday to celebrate the Irish national holiday, St. Patrick's Day. The total number of viewers was around 3000, while the "order" was supported by 2000 police officers. The fun was a bit forced, I would say. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/moscow-the-celebration-of-stpatrick-day-in-moscow/ Festive New Year’s illumination decorates Primorsky Boulevard Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Yuriy White, Odessa http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/odessa-primorsky-boulevard/ In 1915, two miners struck a $10 million gold find near the town of Oatman, Arizon. Within a year, the town's population grew to more than 3,500. Both the population and mining booms were short-lived. In 1921, a fire burned down many of the smaller shacks in town, and three years ... http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/route-66-oatman-airzona/ The Red Town Hall is frequently used for opening major city events. Here it is city mayor Klaus Wowereit infront of the building, opening the 10 year anniversary "Long Night of the Museums" in 2007. Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Michael Stoss, Berlin http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/berlin-the-red-town-hall/ Click the image to open an interactive full screen panorama! Panorama by Andrey Ilyin - pano360.ru, Moscow http://www.vrlog.net/2008/03/suschevsky-val-1/