A Googled Earth Drowning in YouTube Sauce

This 'visual toy' is the last of a series with the bombastic title "(It's All In a) Ball - Assorted Visual Toys and Futile Entertainment for the Leisure of Expendable Peoples in Disposable Times" that started with an accident back in 2005, when I was shooting my contribution to the WWP 'Borders'.

I had shot the first pic when my D70 stopped. I put my hand in front of the lens to check the automatic focus, and that was the last pic I took that day. I was left with two vertical pics to contribute, and without my camera for the quite long period it took Nikon to repair it.

But I wanted to make my contribution in any way, so I started fiddling with the two pics I was left with and by duplicating and flipping layers as my main procedure I came up with a series of 6 panos, one of which I uploaded to the WWP server.

That was the starting point for a series of experimental divertimentos that I called "Eeries" or "Reveeries" (2005 through 2013, a short time after the death of Pat Swovelin,  who appreciated them and used to encourage me to keep on doing them). I contributed some of those panoramas to the WWP, like "The Five O'Clock Tea at Madame Liang's Bazar" for the Crossroads WWP, (September 2010), "Watching Machines" for the Machines WWP, (June 2013), "Paths" for the Paths WWP (March 2012) or Parachutes for the Heritage WWP, (June 2012).

Seven years later and overcoming my reluctance I started another series recovering a couple of old elements but decided to add two significant changes: spheres and "movement". This is something that I would have liked to do when in 2007 I contributed "World Wide Community Chaos - View from the Very Center", to the Community WWP (June 2007) but as I did not know how to do it I just flipped the image and simulated a view of our planet from its center. In June 2020 and after a period of copy-paste trial and error sessions, I had found my way and uploaded "It's all in Ball". This panorama, 'A Googled Earth is Drawning in YouTube Sauce" is one of them.

The original planet Earth image was taken from www.solarsystemscope.com

I want to thank Erik Krause for his invaluable help in making this pano viewable in the WWP. Thanks Erik!

Artistica / Panoramic Paintings

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