I came across this yesterday – Capsule 02 – a project Gareth and I did ages ago which tells you about Cape Town Transport and other such stuff.
The content was distributed on a 1.44mb disk (mainly because they were cheap and deemed completely “unsuitable” for a magazine) and won numerous awards. I shudder at the navigation, but the content is still quite fun.
A small love story. Click here to view.
I watch your car. A classic collection of car guard business cards.
Photo by Scarymonkeyshow
Here is a youth radio programme feature on Cape Town car guards.
An experiment in using a totally unacceptable medium, the animated gif, to publish a magazine. The project was born out of our love for what is fast becomming a dying technology – the animated gif, once all the bells and whistles the web had to offer – today virtually extinct.
The gif was a graphic format invented by Unisys. There was a lot of hooha surrounding it, because the compression it used was patented, and any software, including free software that used it, has to pay for the rights to do so. People screamed and shouted. And burned (or at least angrily deleted) their gifs.
Although officially you should pronounce it “jif”, we think that just sounds silly.
I still remember seeing that first animated gif in my state-of-the-art Quaterdeck Mozaic browser in the late 80s/early90s and going “Whoa!!”
They were the height of cheese on the internet. And I miss them.
So, I’ll start off the homage with the starwars Triology Gifset:
Nicked from Geekster
Please feel free to post your faves…
We did a whole lot of these in the early days of radarboy, I will try dig some others out in the future.