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Play Now: Inaugural Where’s Waldo?

By Michael Scherer | @michaelscherer | January 24, 2009 | +

Photographer David Bergman made a massive composite 1,474 megapixel photograph of the Inaugural audience at the moment Barack Obama gave his address. This means that you can zoom in on any point in the crowd and see clear faces, the sort of technology that the CIA always seems to have in spy movies. It’s quite fun.

To play the game, click here.

Extra points if you spot the following celebrities in the crowd: actor Denzel Washington, rap mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, New Yorker editor David Remnick, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, wheelchair-bound Dick Cheney and America’s coolest married couple, Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z. (Hint: The Hova is wearing a big brown fur cap, and holding a gloved hand to his mouth.)

UPDATE: It seems that Waldo may actually have shown up for the inauguration. See the evidence here.

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  • http://elvisberg.wordpress.com Elvis Elvisberg

    And a napping Clarence Thomas, just behind President Obama.

    I was somewhere behind the Smithsonian Castle, so no matter how many megapixels that picture has, I can’t be found.

  • formerlyrainbow68

    Hopefully he was just looking down, Elvis! This is fun!

  • newfloridian

    Interesting but if he really wants it to be interesting and less time consuming how about a series of buttons next to names that when you hit the button take you automatically to the individual noted.

    I can see some hideous videogame manugfacturer taking this somewhere it is not intended to go.

  • James, Los Angeles

    .
    Is that W with a Blackberry or a Gameboy?
    .

  • formerlyrainbow68

    Can’t tell, James. Looks like a thick wallet or Bible to me.

  • http://nicewhitelady.blogspot.com/ joyomama

    W is just clapping. His left thumb is in front of a glass bottle (see the tumbler next to it). Either that or it’s a half-eaten Eskimo Pie.

  • http://nicewhitelady.blogspot.com/ joyomama

    And the hat is fur, not fir. Or, as they say in New York, fuh.

  • wvng

    The sad thing about this is that I actually tried, at the last minute before heading out to the Mall, to put together a Waldo outfit and couldn’t find the right pieces. ;-(
    .
    Had I succeeded, there could have been a real Waldo search for people with too much time on their hands.

  • wvng

    Plus I was way back at the WWII Memorial and beyond camera range. Out of sight, just like Elvis.

  • FlownOver

    Glad to hear there isn’t anything going on in the government today. There wouldn’t be any time to, like, report.

  • michaelscherer

    yep. fur. fixed.

  • Mr. Nice Guy

    @ flownover: all work and no play makes Mikey – and the rest of us, I guess – a dull boy.

  • yutsano

    Okay that is just way too much fun! I was looking for a close bud but haven’t spotted him yet (you would think a 6’7″ Marine in full dress blues would stick out like a sore thumb!). I’d hunt for another friend there but I’d have more success finding Waldo I think!

  • xtopherarmour

    Look for the disembodied feet on the sidewalk in front of the camera tower. The cops to the left are looking for the rest of him.

  • ryryguy

    I found Obi-wan Kenobi! He’s sitting at the point of a triangle between Bush/Cheney and Obama.

  • dcnick

    Clarence Thomas is in the exact same conditions he is when he hears cases…asleep.

  • karen248

    The sour look on W’s face is just so perfect. So glad he’s gone.

  • yutsano

    I think he needed a deitie change Karen.

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  • davecrook2

    Could Newt Gingrich be any less interested?

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