I’m not wanting to be the party-pooper round here, but surely the perspective isn’t quite right on those wine-rack labels. But hey, if anyone wants to make me an archive even half as good, then I’d be glad. Cos I don’t have one 🙁
Ah, but what if the words were written on the rack in such a way so as to appear normal from an angle? I know I’ve seen somehwere a renaissance painting (maybe in the louvre) which has an odd streched-out diagonal grey shape on it which, if looked at from just the right angle, looks like a skull…
Okay… let’s say that you were the one who photographed the said rack. You’d get brownie points for having done that. But then I’d have to deduct the points from you because you didn’t take the picture from the correct angle. Perhaps you could have done a roll-over effect with the image, where it would rotate to the correct viewing angle when you hover over it, so the labels snap into a perspectively correct position.
Talking about pioneering web-techniques… I was intrigued by the (.pdf) pre-blogger archive. Was this published online at the time in some way, or was it just a private affair knocked up in a word-proc?
Right. And while I’m here, I need to do myself an archive.. is it easy to do in blogger? Anyone? Hello?
Thank you.
(i agree!)
I’m not wanting to be the party-pooper round here, but surely the perspective isn’t quite right on those wine-rack labels. But hey, if anyone wants to make me an archive even half as good, then I’d be glad. Cos I don’t have one 🙁
Ah, but what if the words were written on the rack in such a way so as to appear normal from an angle? I know I’ve seen somehwere a renaissance painting (maybe in the louvre) which has an odd streched-out diagonal grey shape on it which, if looked at from just the right angle, looks like a skull…
Okay… let’s say that you were the one who photographed the said rack. You’d get brownie points for having done that. But then I’d have to deduct the points from you because you didn’t take the picture from the correct angle. Perhaps you could have done a roll-over effect with the image, where it would rotate to the correct viewing angle when you hover over it, so the labels snap into a perspectively correct position.
Talking about pioneering web-techniques… I was intrigued by the (.pdf) pre-blogger archive. Was this published online at the time in some way, or was it just a private affair knocked up in a word-proc?
Right. And while I’m here, I need to do myself an archive.. is it easy to do in blogger? Anyone? Hello?
Yeah ‘course it is.
This is the painting I was referring to:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG1314
I hope it was mounted nice and high.