What If...

[ltheiler1]

Glad you're taking the comments so well. It's a good site and can benefit from just a few little things...

Here's the file I whiped up. Once it loads, click on the "two bedroom" or "three bedroom" links, when you mouse over a particular room, it highlights and lets you move the camera to that room. Please don't be offended by the clunkieness of the application, it was done three years ago now: Wilderness Flash Utility.

How did you get involved with the group that put together the set of installation? Is it correct to call it the "What If" group?

[artlink]

jee if we're getting in my very complicated life it would be worst than debugging actionscript, but to put it short:

- spent 10 months in Asia
- met irish girl in malaysia
- went to her place around here in cork - Ireland
- on day 2 sent a postcard to my friends/family "hi mom"
- saw an ad in the post office: this group was looking for people
- they had pretty much everything except somebody to create website and stuff
- there it started

Had a look at your map, yep "mouse over" work cool but I think if you have the image of the place you're over it's even more obvious for people, better than just a slide show - thats what I will do

Aimimg lazy surfers

[ltheiler1]

: )

Sounds like a plan, like I said, it's been a long time since I set up that tour, I'd really like to have done things differently, but hind-sight is alway 20/20...

Sounds like you've had a couple of pretty crazy years. Congratulations on your involvment with the group. It sounds very artistic and inspiring.

[artlink]

Yep you can talk about involvment, because thats really what it is.

Spent - too much ? - years creating commercial medias (film-print-web-games) and god knows that its good for the money and bad for the soul, so yeah at some stage you badly need some...substance...something that won't involve selling a yoghourt...

I thought long ago to start a discussion here about the fact that TONS of site that were created (excluding the commercial ones with obvious purpose) were lacking any substance. It's just as if everybody could talk but nobody had much to say. And got fed up of "very cool designed" sites where you discover after two click that there was nothing behind the shining set. But then though that it was probably just me being bitter or expecting too much. So I just let it go.

Probably better like that.

--> Watcha gonna with your flash skills kids ?

[ltheiler1]

It's interresting to stumble on websites that are absolutely beautiful, but contain no content worth posting. It proves that content management can be as critical as design itself.

I took an oil painting class a long time ago, and the teacher's first rule was "Have an underlying abstract idea"...basicly, he wanted us to realize that just because we could do somehting didn't mean it should be done.

What's next for the group installation? Is it permanent, or will it only be aroudn for a year or two?

Lincoln

[artlink]

just because we could do somehting didn't mean it should be done.

Could everybody just hear you...

The installation was there for 10 days in July only, so this is just to keep track of it.

We will continue the project next year but differently, which means a new website..eh eh

I've changed the navigation (with the little orange squares) in the GROUP/ACTION section and ow yeah - big time - thats way clearer when it loads the images on "mouseover" better than "on press".

thanks for that again.

Still got to find something for "click here to get the list of groups/actions"

before xmas because then a new story will begin

yay!