>Well, since we're all talking about Flickr, Okay, since we're talking about Flickr, here's a few links to a protoype that we did recently.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMewv48E5oo> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJDFQpy6HFU> In the final version, the application pulls images from flickr.com that are tagged "denver+art+museum" and screened for certain licensing types. These images form a visual cascade with periodic images randomly coming to the foreground and an attribution appearing beneath the image. Interspersed with the random playback are additional content images (in this instance displaying a graph of the results of a quiz taken at an event a few fridays ago) which can either be static or dynamically created -- web pages, text feeds, video overlays, etc. (minor bit with which I'm particularly happy - we've custom size and shaped the viewable area to deal with the unusual geometry of our building) In the final installation, which will be projected in a different location, we'll also have a small panel of text that describes the experience and that the images are coming from flickr.com. If people want to participate, all they'll need to do is start uploading their images to the site. It's built using the new Core Animation libraries from the next release of OS X. We also made the window shape malleable so we could fit it into any odd architectural spaces (you can see it clipping the beam cover along the left side) in the building. At the event a few weeks ago where we were running the prototype, we were unknowingly using someone's images that was at the event. He saw them, was blown away, and loved it. -bw. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bruce Wyman, Director of New Technologies Denver Art Museum / 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 office: 720.913.0159 / fax: 720.913.0002 <bwyman at denverartmuseum.org>
