January 15, 2005
iam is a go
the prototype shown at the end of last semester is live and online now.
it will obviously change a lot over the next several months - already several new pieces have been built and id like to get some new bits in by the end of the weekend.
for now though, the basic stuff is there. right now, there are only a few movies up - a few from oct when i was in nyc. again, i want to get a whole bunch more up in the next week or two. i have about 35 different ones sitting on my drive here. not too exciting though - most are of me reading or watching tv. these should expand in the next several weeks, which is another reason i want to get caught up quickly in what i am publishing. the newer stuff should get better and better as i get used to the system.
in the meantime, enjoy what is there and please feel free to comment on the system as a whole, feel free to leave comments within the system itself (using the small white bullets above the images) and enjoy watching these movies (they are on the large side - i think the longest is about 130 megs, so give them time to load).
Posted by tripp at January 15, 2005 05:08 PMComments
looks good. I'm still a little hazy on the "chapter" thing, in terms of interface design. Also, is where is the master timeline you were talking about, I don't see it. Also, how does the master timeline compare to the quicktime timeline in the left, which just seems to be a master timeline of the recorded footage. Does the master timeline show an entire day, breaks in recording and all? And how do you represent those breaks in temporality (word?) visually. I think that perhaps that's the biggest next step is representing all the different types of timelines. Like, the thing that Flikr is missing is (well, video), but also the idea of context. I think your project is all about context, and you should be very deliberate in how time is represented. I'm sure you've thought about it, but time still doesn't quite play for me here.
Posted by: will at January 15, 2005 06:04 PM
timelines are a big factor here. there are a couple of pieces id like to work on as far as navigation go.
one of them right now is being able to represent the day as a whole in a simple timeline view, which isnt published yet.
another is a better way to represent all of the footage - a drop down of each video file is obviously not the best way to do this.
there are 3 or 4 major pieces that seem to be growing out of the interface: timelines, commenting, editing, video representation and prob another im forgetting.
it will be easy to keep wrapping the video in navigation, so you can drill down forever, but id like to try and figure something more organic out. time will tell.
for today, im just pleased to have gotten it public.
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at January 15, 2005 08:02 PM
What are your plans for tagging metainfo? The Flickr method of rollovers with text is a nice one.
What are your thoughts on using the design of the Macintosh Dock with its scaling thumbnails as a time line, say in Flash?
Posted by: brad at January 16, 2005 06:30 PM
