The US election: moving pictures

Obama’s win was captured in many different moments across America and the world. Here are just a few snapshots:

MOVING PICTURES:

The big kahuna. Did you miss Obama’s victory speech? Only catch the soundbites on the news? Watch it in full here.

Sarah Palin admits her part in John McCain’s downfall — via Gawker

More videos:

• Obama win causes obsessive supporters to realise how empty their lives are. — The Onion says it best.
• Election Day in 100 seconds — from Talking Points Memo
• Obama wins: Stephen Colbert cries. — from Indecision 2008
• Obama wins: Oprah screams for joy. — Huffington Post
• Obama wins: Ralph Nader asks whether Obama will be Uncle Sam or “Uncle Tom”. There’s always one. Via Hot Air.

STILLS:

Official photo collections:

• Boston Globe: The best pics of Barack Obama from the past few months. Stirring stuff.
• Time: Obama’s victory celebration in Chicago
• Chicago Tribune: Grant Park Obama Rally
• International Herald Tribune: Watching from abroad (includes US soldiers in Iraq casting their ballots)
• The Guardian: US election night victory celebrations around the globe

Personal collections:

Informal photos are popping up like mushrooms on Flickr. Like this set from jdebner, snapping from Pittsburgh. It looks like scenes from the end of a war (well that or a Jerome Robbins musical).

Crowd scenes from New York — and, more specifically, Harlem — are collated by Gothamist.

Kay Steiger snapped one guy in Washington whose car got the Obama treatment.

Illustrator Patrick Moberg’s picture, meanwhile, is telling a thousand words — as it laps the globe today.