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Absolut Vodka & Lomo are doing an art project together. Photography gallery of Lomographers’ work and you can email the photos to people as well. Looks good. A friend commented "beautiful photos... too much interface...".
I think he may have a bit of a point. Photos & the idea are still great though and it is good use of Flash video. What do y'all think?
http://absolut.com/lomo
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Like Mondavi (?)used to do on their wine labels...only they used international names. Don't know if they still do that
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Wall image interface is sorta like QuickTime VR.
It is very hard to use, with long lag times, and only one scan speed.
Good luck locating the *exact* center of the display window to stop scrolling.
Very low-res pixellated images at close-up. What the heck is the rotating halo about?
It is not resting on the image I am interested in, and download is slow.
I would have preferred a grab-and-drag style interface like Acrobat Reader.
Then I can quickly slide by images of no interest, and latch onto one that catches my eye.
Flash may be uber-cool, but it needs to be uber-well implemented.
Close. But not this time.
YMMV,
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What's the "grab-and-drag style interface like Acrobat Reader"? I don't think I've seen that...do you mean the tools or something?
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Um, if you open a .pdf document, you get the Adobe Acrobat Reader (or full-blown Acrobat, or other application). AAR displays the document with an 'open hand' icon showing. When you click the 'hand' clenches and mouse/cursor movement drags the document. When you release the click, the hand unclenches and dragging stops.
The motion of the cursor is directly tied to postion of/over the document.
QTVR used a speed control based on distance from the center of the viewing window. The further, the faster. Direction of motion also determined by radial displacement from the center.
Rate-of-motion is hard to control well for the casual user (like me).
It does not require as much physical movement as absolute-postion (click-and-drag), but is not forgiving of positioning error.
Second-order systems, where the controls only adjust the rate-of-change (flight control simulators) are even harder to deal with. I don't fly. There is a reason for it. Be thankful!
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Oh that, yeah. I thought you meant there was some type of dragging objects onto the stage/document interface. That's why I was confused.
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I find that the older I get, the harder it is to use rate-controls well.
Maybe if Absolut Lomo had a 'training-wheels' mode, I would have fewer issues with the interface. 8-)
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Somehow I'm reminded of the old Kai Krause tools. They were so weird and undocumented, you basically had to take some kind of hallucinogen to figure them out.
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It's Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader now.
Taking way too long to load in this old PC. I'll have to try again later.
