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City of Paris remembers the 1910 amazing flood with Zoomorama

The city of Paris opened a major exhibition yesterday in remembrance of the 100 years anniversary of the 1910 major flood. The Seine flooded the city up to 8 meters ! All major monuments were affected, as well as all aspect of city life.

See below the virtual exhibit, or here the page on Paris.fr (French) : Link to Paris.fr details of the exhibit

With Zoomorama the city offers the Internet public never seen before original documents that can been seen in full details. Zoom in and be amazed at all the details of a city under water, from the Eiffel Tower to the St Lazard Train Station. Read the NewsPapers from 100 years ago as well as postcards sent from Paris.

You can also visit all the specific locations and views HD images for specific locations in the city thanks to Google Maps combined with Zoomorama: Google Mashup of 1910 Paris Flood

Technically this took only four days of programming using some CSS, and a little Javascript. The Zooming technology makes developing such exhibit a breeze, and for a significant budget saving. The city of Paris is so pleased with Zoomorama's technology that it already requested that another major exhibit be provided online using Zoomorama, with even more interactivity. More on this Photography exhibit in a few days !

Interview with ADOBE TV from earlier

Here is a interview for Adobe TV from back in March, but it's still useful to explain in 5 minutes what Zoomorama can do. In ENGLISH.

How to Promote a Theater Play with Zoomorama

Theaters in Paris are starting to use Zoomorama for a more effective promotion of their shows. They can easily create a collage with the poster, some photos, and a video teaser. Then the collage can as easily be picked up by bloggers, or even ticketmaster for direct presentation where potential customers are.

Simple and Effective, keywords for Zoomorama !

See here a zoomorama for an upcoming show of a play by Moliere, Tartuffe, directed by Laurent Delvert.

The Beautiful Princess is OFFICIALLY a genuine Leonardo da Vinci

The $20,000 painting bought at Christies two years ago is now worth more than $100 Million after the experts have declared it a genuine Leonardo da Vinci !

Timothy Clifford, the foremost specialist on Leonardo da Vinci wrote this in the Times of London:

"With Peter Silverman, I visited Pascal Cotte at Lumiere Technology who is doing pioneering work using his unique multispectral scanner. He has discovered that the tightly spaced follicles of the parchment would suggest it is made from the skin of a lamb and that the drawn surface has undergone a certain amount of abrasion and restoration that one would expect from a drawing of a considerable age.

Using the scanner one could see more clearly than with the naked eye that the shading passed from the upper left to the lower right in Leonardo’s usual distinctive manner. A sliver of the parchment had been subjected to tests by the Institute of Particle Physics in Zurich, which dated it to the range 1440-1650. 

After my visit, a fingerprint was found in the chalk that corresponds with that appearing in a Leonardo painting of St Jerome. So, as far as technology is concerned, the drawing seems to have a remarkably clean bill of health. What is so exciting is that no drawings by Leonardo on parchment are known, although we do know from the Codex Atlanticus that Leonardo was interested in the technology of drawing, in color, on vellum." READ Full Article.

More than a year ago we had the privilege of publishing for the world this new painting, still uncertified, called  Profile di Bella Principessa - Profile of the Beautiful Princess - courtesy of Jean Penicaut, CEO of Lumière Technologies. They relied on Zoomorama to show the world the full glory of the painting in 80Mpixels.

View the Painting in HD here

Here are the news reports from around the world about this fantastic news that we had announced to you before anyone else ! View the news in FRENCH here. Go to Lumières Technologies web site for all the articles.

Horses of Qatar, the Zoomorama

We have been honored by the request of famous photographer Vanessa von Zitzewitz to use Zoomorama for the promotion of her new book and exhibit on the Horses of Qatar. The exhibit just opened at the "Petit Palais" in the heart of Paris and received rave reviews (read article in Le Figaro (French)).

Vanessa is one of the world's top commercial photographer, working for Cartier and Boucheron, among others, but also a famous portraitist who got Karl Lagerfeld, Carla Bruni, or Sean Connery to pose for her. She has spent two years on this book, taking more than twenty thousand pictures to take advantage of the unprecedented access into the secret world of the Emir of Qatar.

The Exhibit runs until October 11th in Paris.

See here the Zoomorama for Horses of Qatar.  (view full screen for an enhanced experience)

But Vanessa is also a generous donor of her time and money to a orphanage in Thailand that takes care of kids with AIDS. Every year she spends personal time taking care of the kids herself, as well providing invaluable financial support. She published a book about the orphanage, with beautiful and touching photographs.

See here the Zoomorama for the Thai Orphanage "Slaughter House Angels"

Thank you Vanessa for your beautiful work, and for choosing Zoomorama !