I came across this post earlier today and had to try it. I was stunned.
The entire experience is very cool and gives you the feeling as you are visiting the museum.
The level of details of each one of the 14 high-res paintings is exceptional. You can keep zooming in to discover the fine details, such as individual brushstrokes, textures of the canvas, and in some cases cracks in the surface of the paint.
You have got to try it. Simply do the following:
- In Google Earth find and enable this layer: “Geographic Web -> Preview -> Museo de Prado“
- Double click on “Museo Prado” placemark to fly to the museum
- Enable the museum in 3D option to render the museum building in 3D
- Click on the “Museo Nacional del Prado : Masterpieces” placemark to open a pop up window that has thumbnails for the 14 paintings
- Start exploring individual paintings
And a close look at Jacob’s dream
Earlier this week, I returned from Israel where I participated in Kinnernet, Yossi Vardi’s geek camp that took place to the shores of the Kinneret.
Cathy Brooks (of Seesmic) asked me there what was the best part. My answer was simply – “the beginning, the middle and the end”.
Yet, there were a few specific sessions, workshops & presentations I liked the most:
- Itai Talgam’s lecture about “management styles of great conductors”. It was fascinating to see how much the body language of conductors can indicate what type of managers they would be.
- Hanoch Piven’s “Art using Junk” workshop. This is the portrait of Avi Nimni I made (especially for Klieger).
- The home made satellite built from a PC, GPS, Digital Camera and transmitter connected to a helium balloon. Once in the air it sent photos of Jordan as well as its location and those coordinates were mashed up using Google Earth API to display its route. Very cool!
- Simon Levene (Accell Partners) presenting in a hilarious way the business plan for his next venture – WhoTheHell.RU. Does anyone have the video?
- Barak Berkowitz’s Paint with Light night workshop. Check out this art work.
- and last, but not least, the talented Ariel Qassis, who hypnotized me whenever his fingers touched the Qanun.
I am sure I am missing at least 100 other things that made this creative event simply great.
More photos can be found here, here, and a zillion more on Flickr
Update: Here is the video of Seder 2.0 by Peter Hirshberg
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