Budapest, Hungary, August 10-17, 2005 -- Sziget Festival 2005, Europe's largest pop festival is documented in unprecedented detail by international media group, Sziget 2005 Media Farm.An international team of VR photographers gathered to produce the largest volume to date of 360 degree interactive panoramas and movies, photographs and video clips of the event taking place on a Danube island in the heart of the Hungarian capital. 'Sziget' means 'island' in Hungarian.
The media site, http://www.sziget2005.com continues to grow as new material is posted from several countries, homes to the contributing photographers - Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and the U.S.A. The site has begun to incorporate panoramic images from the past four of the festival's thirteen years as well. Sziget Festival 2005 boasted some 60 venues and 200 acts from around the world in most every genre catering to all ages, genders and races who themselves had arrived from all corners of the globe. Visit http://www.szigetfestival.hu for program details.
At the heart of the media project, dubbed as 'Sziget 2005 Media Farm', are the breathtaking panoramic images which stand out in their abilities to capture the events amidst drastically varying lighting conditions and the tumultuously animated, uninhibited crowds and performers.
Perhaps the most exciting media format presented on sziget2005.com is the 360 degree panoramic video footage. The unique custom hardware assembled from a HDV camera and a convex mirror among other things, was contributed to the project by Concept Factory, a German advertising firm (http://www.conceptfactory.de).
Sziget2005.com hosts the largest collection of panoramic images of any festival produced and posted 'live' during its event. Visitors can sign a guestbook and send eCards of a selection of fun photos and artists' portraits from the festival.
Visit the Sziget2005.com Media Farm. Some images are more equal than others.
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The principal organizer of the media event is Hungarian-born Andras Frenyo of http://www.sphericalphoto.com, who now lives in the U.S. and has been creating panoramic images of the Sziget Festival for four years.
Daniel Maurer, a native of Germany and the head of Concept Factory's Internet Team (http://www.conceptfactory.de) is responsible for deploying the content management system which enabled contributors to post their media 'live' during the festival events and is based on the public domain Typo3 CMS.
Aldo Hoeben (Netherlands) of http://www.fieldofview.nl, is an author and pioneer of hardware accelerated panoramic viewing technologies.
Bernhard Vogl (http://bernie.x-net.at/), is a long time panoramic photographer of Austria, based in Vienna.
U.S. Contact:
Andras Frenyo
402 Cornwall Street
Baltimore, MD 21224
1 (410) 633 4940
http://www.sphericalphoto.com
afrenyo@sphericalphoto.com
European Contact:
Daniel Maurer
Concept Factory
Brühler Strasse 115
50389 Wesseling
Germany
49 (0) 22 36/94 24 96
http://www.conceptfactory.de
maurer@conceptfactory.de
