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July 27, 2005
Welcome to [the] joeZONE - Interactive Digital Photos
In my recent travels about cyberspace I've come across a few nifty applications created in Director that deal with the display of digital images, I'm referring to things like Aldo Hoeben's SPi-V (say it "spiffy") panoramic viewing engine, or DigitalStage's wonderful tool called LiFE with Photo Cinema (please also read my June 9th blog for more info on LiFE). On par with those in terms of how they piqued my interest is some work I was directed to in the "Joe Zone". All I know about the creator is that his name is Joe and that he's tinkering with some interesting ideas related to interactive digital photo displays.
It seems that Joe wants photos to be interactive such that they truly enhance the viewing experience, and it's not about neat ways to navigate through piles of photos, rather it's about neat ways to interact with the photos themselves to allow you to bring out different views of the same scene, to bring you into the image a bit more so you can see the same scene in multiple ways. Unfortunately for us web-viewers the content available is small compared to the total volume of work available on CD, but no matter, what's available for Shockwave viewing on-line was more than interesting enough to keep my attention for a while. Have a look for yourself, hopefully you'll find Joe's work as interesting as I did.
First step into [the] joeZONE:
[the] joeZONE
Then, have a look at these two projects in particular:
landscopes and collidoscopes
And for you cheaters wanting to jump straight to the projects that offer Shockwave content for on-line viewing here are some direc links:
"Here comes the sun" - Ayguesvives, Canal du Midi (landscope)
"Possession" - Jerusalem, Old City (landscope)
"umbrellas" ("parapluies") - Paris (collidoscope)
I definitely think it's some interesting work and we've already placed ourselves in the queue for a CD with a more complete body of work so we can take a deeper look into Joe's ideas about interactive digital photography.
Good stuff, enjoy.
Posted by thiggins at July 27, 2005 09:50 AM