National Geographic (or NatGeo if you watch there awesome channel) has a new project on their website called Infinite Photograph.

Dive into this photo-mosaic portrait of the Earth to see it through the eyes of users like you. It’s made up of hundreds of photos of the natural world, each submitted by users to My Shot.

Its a interactive image viewer that uses hundreds of images to make a tile mosaic of another image. From there you can click on a quadrant and zoom in to see the images that made up the larger image. Very much worth checking out.

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In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be laughing at fake wayfarers, neon keffiyehs, and ironic facial hair in the same way we now derisively dismiss pegged jeans, trucker hats, and acid-washed anything. In the meantime, Look at this Fucking Hipster is chronicling the worst of these offenders for our future lulz (or present, for those of us that don’t live in Williamsburg).

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For the 0.0003% of you that don’t read Boing Boing on a regular basis, check out these stunning pictures by Clark Little.  Clark stands in the waves with a waterprook SLR and takes shots at 9 frames per second to grab these photos.  The above video is his interview on Good Morning America about how he takes the shots.  Brilliant stuff!!

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Photographer David Bergman was covering Barack Obama’s historical inauguration when he shot the above image at an amazing 1474 megapixel resolution. The photo consists of 220 individual pictures taken with a Canon G10 strapped to a Gigapan Imager. The final image is, understandbly, huge at  59,783 x 24,658 pixels and almost 2gb in size. The level of detail is simply incredible. You can zoom right into every single person’s face, practically. Is it me, or is Bush playing a Gameboy?

Read. [davidbergman.net]

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The above is a photo from 1910 entitled “The Attack on Juarez”. It’s one example among many, many more at the Library of Congress’ Flickr account, where they have been steadily scanning and uploading their entire photo archive. Currently they have several collections: news photos from the 1910s, photos from 1930-1940 in color, World War I panoramas, photocrom travel photos, which must be a mere fraction of their inventory, so it seems that there will be much more to come. Tagged and searchable even!

The Library of Congress’ photostream [flickr.com]

The “We’re All Going To Die – 100meters of Existence” project is by Photographer Simon Hogsberg.  He took a picture of 178 people from the same point on a rail road bridge in Berlin over 20 days.  He then linked the photos into a 100 meter long image that you can interact with via an Adobe Flash interface.

Its simple yet utterly beautiful.

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Some people are just born dripping with creative talent.  Vancouver-based videogame artist Eric Testroete took a 21 day trip to Japan with his girlfriend and just sorta popped out this masterpiece upon returning home, just sorta offhandedly pulled it out of his ass.  The photos were taken on a Pentax k20d, post-processed to give them that excellent saturated look, and stitched together in Sony Vegas.  Tuneage by LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends”, which I think really adds some nice emotions to the already beautiful photography.  Click through to the Vimeo page for a version with more pixels.  If this doesn’t make you want to visit Japan, then you probably live there already.