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While trying to hunt down James White’s website (one of my favorite photographers), I’m reminded of one of the reasons why I dislike flash websites–you can’t find jack shit in search engines. James White is the perfect case example–his website is actually part of a photographer’s agency site, but since it’s all in flash, there are no references to his section within the site anywhere in google. To make matters worse, there’s another photographer of dubious talent by the same name, and his site is what google spat out on top of the search results. The James White I’m a big fan of is lightyears better as a photographer, and I could only imagine in horror if someone had tried to look up James White based on my recommendation, then got that other guy instead. Anyway, the James White I adore could be found here–you’d never have been able to find him if I didn’t post that link. You can google for the other guy on your own, but he’s not really worth the trouble.
What I love about White’s photography is the pure opiate lushness–so deliberate yet not overbearing–opposite of David Lachapelle–who is the current darling of celebrity photography. I like that White never resorts to pretentious gimmicks, but is still imaginative and compelling–using purely composition, light, and colors. But then again, I’ve never been a fan of the flashy, tongue-in-cheek, “look at me I’m a rebel!” style of photography, as most walk right pass the line of inventiveness and fall right into the pool of crassness.
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Nintendo Revolution’s official name has been announced, and it’s called. . ..
Wii. (pronounced like “wee”)
Did someone lose a bet? Gaming forums have literally hundreds, if not thousands of posts just tripping over themselves to make jokes about it. This is, without a doubt, the butt of every joke in the game industry at the moment. I’d love to have witnessed the meeting where this name was first suggested, and the look on everyone’s faces as they quietly considered the consequences for for laughing out loud.
The purple Gamecube was a bit fruity, but nothing you couldn’t live with. This, on the other hand, is like naming your son “Dilbert” or your daughter “Twinklet”–just plain cruel.
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There’s gotta be something perverse in this. somewhere, but I’m drawing a blank. It’s a pretty cool technology though, and it’ll only be a matter of time before the webcam whores find some really creative uses for it.
The Flash thing is interesting and highlights something about the way google indexes things. When you creae a flash site, the flash authoring environment automatically generates meta tags based upon the words in the flash project.
However, since google doesn’t index pages using metatags, the whole system is a bit flawed.
Or so I believe.