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Posted by MAROMANU80@gmail.com on May 15, 2007, 5:01 am
....about Mallysphere?
http://www.mallysphere.com
Posted by gruhn on May 26, 2007, 1:48 am
I think it's mostly nothing. I think the few images I bothered to see
don't support the hyperbole. I think that ending at a plain
vanilla .jpg (in a NEW TAB for Bob's sake) after all that hype and
design is lame. I think that if "2006 ilyalart - part of Mallysphere"
it should, you know, be part of it and not launch in a new tab under a
new domain. I think illy made a typo when buying the domain
ilyalart.com. I think illy might have to look out for a cease and
desist letter from the coffee people. I think extra space or indenting
is a good thing for new paragraphs. I think "till" is used
incorrectly. I think some of the pictures are pretty. I think the
pictures ultimately convey the main rhetorical thrust of the artist
profile - "I like colors." This is in keeping with the stated target
audience. I think the talk about "east and west" and the photographs
(which feel like stock photos ripped from the web) that support it
have nothing to do with the art. I think the "sphere" in the title
does not manifest in the site or the art; look at that front page
"SPHERE" and... a square; hunh? I think the 52 page suffers from what
Robin Williams "told me" is the first refuge of the inexperienced
designer - centering. I think there are some other spelling/language
problems that point to not-a-native-English-speaker; no worries, but
do get an editor. I think other of the colors are starting to blend to
mud. I think the fingerpainting is detrimental to your credibility. I
think including a headshot makes it look like a (American) real estate
brochure (why do they do that? "Look, I have big hair, you should buy
a house from me!"?) I think
http://www.mallysphere.com/52seconds/Files/series/big/2b.jpg is over four times as large as it needs to be in terms of data and
probably four times as small as it should be in terms of area. Enh,
not everybody has 1200 yet, still, you could boost it to 800 or 1000
and still come out smaller file size than it is now. I think it's
weird that "photographic gallery" is a keyword. I think the HTML
source is very tidy, clearly not written by an MS product; there
should be a tag for that somewhere... nope, can't find one, hm. I
think a contacts page with only an email link should be replaced with
just an email link unless more contact info is very soon coming. I
think title pages with no content were recognized as bad a long time
ago. I think the distorted images on the second page look bad. I think
you are a sincere beginner and should keep at it. Concentrate on
providing payback - why do I want to go here? What do you have to
offer? The pretty artsy talk is not interesting; you have to have a
gallery statement for the gallery people; on the web you have to have
content; the web cares much less about why you think you are special
and much more about what it can take from you that is special. "blah
blah colors are pretty blah blah..." yeah, anybody who likes colors
already knows that. Your very own pretty pictures, THEY are what sets
you apart from everybody else. I, of course, adore the dark gray.
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