Showing posts with label pano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pano. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Twitter works? Fancy that!


I suspect that if you're reading this 'blog' you might be aware and accepting of the phenomenon of blogging and of Twitter in particular. But in case you're the Thomas in the room here's a little, a very little, story that might illustrate how it can work positively.

In January I was intent on getting to grips with producing interactive panoramas. I'd been dipping my toe in over the previous years but never got to produce a complete virtual tour. So one Saturday I headed to Edinburgh's QuarterMile to shoot a tour around this new 'village'.
During the following week I spent several hours putting two alternate format versions together and happy with the results so far I Tweeted it a couple of times including the QuarterMile hashtag.

The rest of the story is about QuarterMile discovering my Tweets, liking what they saw and seeing it's potential for their marketing, then getting in touch and both of us agreeing a licensing deal and it going online on their website.

Which brings me back to last summer when I asked an online list of photographers if they were using Twitter. Three or four answered instantly in the negative citing how effective face to face networking is. Which of course it is if you can get the appointment .... when you haven't got work on... if they like the look of your website ....... as opposed to the complementary and not mutually exclusive dead quick Tweet that can lead to the face to face.

Monday, 12 January 2009

Interactive Panoramas




Early days yet..... Over the break I was shooting and putting some QTVRs together. See them here (will open in a full screen browser) GlenCoe, Cramond and Leamington Lift Bridge. As you see I've still one or two issues to work through. Look out for linked tours in the future. Quicktime required..... download it here.

Monday, 3 November 2008

Great Panorama maker

Having just viewed Douglas Cape's pano for Seizure again I realize it may seem slightly esoteric to some of you. It certainly does for me. That's the featured art I mean. Douglas's work is much more accessible. See it here.

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Interactive panos

Here's an email sent by my friend Douglas:


Hi Y'all

Latest Panoramic Tour!
"In SEIZURE, Roger Hiorns' most ambitious work to date, the artist precipitates an unexpected sculptural form within the fabric of a housing estate near London Bridge. SEIZURE continues Artangel's long tradition of transforming urban housing into large-scale immersive works of art."

Flash version (requires Flash 9, Broadband and a recent computer) on the front page of z360.com or directly at this URL:

http://www.z360.com/full/flashfull/seizure.htm

Hope you enjoy the blue show,
Yours Douglas