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[JoeOE18]

Lol, people have been taking about faces in the blur for a few days and I've only JUST seen it

Therefore I don't think its a new xbox

[quetz]

Hello everyone, my name is Tim and this is my first post here. I extracted all of the images from the orb.swf file and wrote a perl program to go through each one pixel by pixel and compare them. I tried to isolate each pixel that had similar colors through the six pictures, but I didn't end up with anything useful (just random colors). Basically, I looked at the average color for each location (x = 150, y = 978 for example) and accepted or rejected the pixel depending on how close all of the images were at that location. If anyone has any other comparison ideas I can try them out.

== Tim

[coffeefilms]

I checked back and discovered...

The spiral staricase is the Vatican staircase, another example is here;
http://www.lucianofamily.net/Italy1999/1999-0604-0231-57EM.jpg

The couple kissing are here;
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx
search for "couple kissing in crowded street"

The human tower is Spains annual Tarragona human tower, info and a different photo of the event here;
http://archiviofoto.blog.excite.it/permalink/198315


The ant is from the ourcolony gallery



None of the others have been reliably sourced yet, this just got looked over really, perhaps we should try and track more of them down?

[NovacaineX]

The vatican staircase image is also on gettyimages

search for "Vatican staircase"

this makes me think that probably all of the images except the ant one are from getty.

[Whits896]

[Whits896]

[coffeefilms]

Like I said, the Luciano pic is another example of the staircase but not the right pic, I think the one on Getty is right though, the fourth one if you search for "vatican staircase"


More on the tower, here is the homepage of the people in it, can't find the key image though; http://www.castellersdevilafranca.com/Index.htm

[NovacaineX]

Heres the staircase orb, and the staircase image which line up pretty much exact. Again, i'm not sure what you can do with this but it doesn't hurt to put it out there for people to mess with.

[NovacaineX]

And here's the couple kissing with and without the sphere effect.

[Shaded Spriter]

does anyone know where that couple kissing picture is from...

[NovacaineX]

It's from gettyimages. Go to

http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/homeCreative.aspx

and search for couple kissing in crowded street

also the vatican staircase one is from there, search for vatican staircase, it's the 4th one.

[coffeefilms]

According to Getty it's New York City, that's all, photographer is Steven Weinberg

[Shaded Spriter]

If it is new york city - I wonder what that building is behind them.

[baobab]

Kissing Couple...

[coffeefilms]

I think you're right;

http://www.ny.com/photos/berg-lg.jpg
http://www.ny.com/shopping/department/bergdorf.html

You can tell by the distinctive sign in the middle of the building.