Re: My Wraptures-ready Sunday
On 8/1/06, Gibson Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aside: Just between you, me, Killer B's, and the NSA, I worry my son
will have no college fund. This was tough though doable when I went to
school {$11K/yr Tulane 1986}, but costs are so vastly more expensive
now {$43K Tulane 2006} that I worry how any of our off-spring will
finance upper education in the coming decades. Immigration to Europe
-or- Australia is a serious consideration for us.
Jonathan Gibson
www.formandfunction.com/word
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Don't forget Canuckistan! Just make sure you get here BEFORE your
kids actually start college, or you'll pay full fees.
I think it's +/- 3K/year tuition fees in Quebec for residents.
Jean-Louis
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Re: My Wraptures-ready Sunday
Hullo maru dubshinki,
Sorry, I almost missed your notice, but a quick peek into my mail
directory & I just had to open up yours and Dave's thread. My ISP is
on holiday and this left my domain server down a few hours this AM.
It's all up and dandy now. Try again.
I said, 'Enjoy' and I mean it, dammit!
- Jonathan -
PS - once again, staging via
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
Final domain will simply be www.wraptures.com, but will auto-magically
redirect once this is all public.
Dave,
Thanks for the kind words.
I enjoy the gift society model wherever I can apply it and I am hopeful
this catalyzes positive changes in my recent {lack of} career.
I'm counting on the panache associated with this long-gone resource
being on tap will stir the hearts of graphic professionals enough to
throw a few nickels in the tip jar out of teary nostalgia & loosen
billfolds {ever so gently} for the stimulating new stuff. Back in the
day these were considered overkill and I often heard their 1024x512
pixel resolution called "monsters", but they seem almost quaint now. I
aim for my new ones to get as many rave reviews and to be even longer
lived.
Addendum: for those familiar with Wraptures I'll note that not all from
the original collections are available - yet. I'm simply not sure what
would happen to my old school chum running the server {gratis} if some
sunny morning a sizable portion of DTP shops in Asia start downloading
them when some notable blog makes mention. Almost all the 512x512 are
up, but time+space+ISP costs are yet to be determined & I am a tad more
tentative about all the 1024x512 as planned at the outset. I will get
there eventually, however. I went ahead and bit the bullet by putting
the high-res ones up to measure demand.
- JG -
Aside: Just between you, me, Killer B's, and the NSA, I worry my son
will have no college fund. This was tough though doable when I went to
school {$11K/yr Tulane 1986}, but costs are so vastly more expensive
now {$43K Tulane 2006} that I worry how any of our off-spring will
finance upper education in the coming decades. Immigration to Europe
-or- Australia is a serious consideration for us.
On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Gibson Jonathan wrote:
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
Way back in the early days of multimedia I had heady sand castle
dreams
of ROM baronies built on a foundation of seamless, tile-able,
textures.
Walking around the first MicroSoft CD ROM conference {hard to imagine
hosting one today} I was enthused about converting my lifelong
penchant
for visual patterns with recent eye-candy three-d work I'd been doing
and determined to expand & refine the growing tool chest for sale to
other graphic professionals.
Those of us who either (a) worked at or around Apple in the early 90s
or
(b) toiled at multimedia in the halcyon days of HyperCard remember
Wraptures well.
When it became clear that the Jonathan Gibson of Brin-L was /that/
Jonathan Gibson, smiles spread across the faces of those of us who (c)
both worked at Apple in the early 90s /and/ toiled at multimedia in the
halcyon days of Hypercard.
Thank you for your gift, Jonathan!
Dave
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On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:38 AM, maru dubshinki wrote:
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
...
Gigabytes of fun. Enjoy!
- Jonathan -
For what it is worth, your link is down for me.
~maru
Jonathan Gibson
www.formandfunction.com/word
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Re: My Wraptures-ready Sunday
On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:31 PM, Gibson Jonathan wrote:
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
Way back in the early days of multimedia I had heady sand castle
dreams
of ROM baronies built on a foundation of seamless, tile-able,
textures.
Walking around the first MicroSoft CD ROM conference {hard to imagine
hosting one today} I was enthused about converting my lifelong
penchant
for visual patterns with recent eye-candy three-d work I'd been doing
and determined to expand & refine the growing tool chest for sale to
other graphic professionals.
Those of us who either (a) worked at or around Apple in the early 90s or
(b) toiled at multimedia in the halcyon days of HyperCard remember
Wraptures well.
When it became clear that the Jonathan Gibson of Brin-L was /that/
Jonathan Gibson, smiles spread across the faces of those of us who (c)
both worked at Apple in the early 90s /and/ toiled at multimedia in the
halcyon days of Hypercard.
Thank you for your gift, Jonathan!
Dave
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Re: My Wraptures-ready Sunday
On 7/30/06, Gibson Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings Tribe of Brin,
For those of you who use graphics in your work and play I have a small
treat.
I am pleased to announce to this small group the imminent public
offering of my multi-CD image libraries. Not a must-buy Wall Street
deal to buy stock in an image company, but a gift to the world open
source-ish. I'm hoping to generate good ju-ju releasing this
intellectual property after many years under moth-ball, The hope is
traffic flocks, leaves a gratuity, and {ideally} purchases the newer,
snappier, yet-more clever HD-sized textures vastly better suited to
this XXIst century. You folks are invited to scratch-n-sniff the
original collection as I prepare for a fall-winter launch of my
high-def Pro line. I'm only telling a handful of friends and you folk
as I am not terribly interested in generating publicity - yet. I'm
eager for technical & business feedback and of course curious where the
low-key viral marketing leads. If I suddenly end up with a tiger by
the tail, then all the better.
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
...
Gigabytes of fun. Enjoy!
- Jonathan -
For what it is worth, your link is down for me.
~maru
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My Wraptures-ready Sunday
Greetings Tribe of Brin,
For those of you who use graphics in your work and play I have a small
treat.
I am pleased to announce to this small group the imminent public
offering of my multi-CD image libraries. Not a must-buy Wall Street
deal to buy stock in an image company, but a gift to the world open
source-ish. I'm hoping to generate good ju-ju releasing this
intellectual property after many years under moth-ball, The hope is
traffic flocks, leaves a gratuity, and {ideally} purchases the newer,
snappier, yet-more clever HD-sized textures vastly better suited to
this XXIst century. You folks are invited to scratch-n-sniff the
original collection as I prepare for a fall-winter launch of my
high-def Pro line. I'm only telling a handful of friends and you folk
as I am not terribly interested in generating publicity - yet. I'm
eager for technical & business feedback and of course curious where the
low-key viral marketing leads. If I suddenly end up with a tiger by
the tail, then all the better.
http://www.formandfunction.com/wraptures/index.html
Way back in the early days of multimedia I had heady sand castle dreams
of ROM baronies built on a foundation of seamless, tile-able, textures.
Walking around the first MicroSoft CD ROM conference {hard to imagine
hosting one today} I was enthused about converting my lifelong penchant
for visual patterns with recent eye-candy three-d work I'd been doing
and determined to expand & refine the growing tool chest for sale to
other graphic professionals.
After a hyped-up evening of endorphins, coffee, and ice-cream, I dubbed
these Wraptures: as in wrapping-textures. We were early out the gate
and did very well over the next years & I pumped out several high
resolution and animated full-frame digital video collections. All was
good.
Alas, I was under the mistaken impression a garage startup could make
it just fine against the larger stock photo companies which had not yet
made the leap to digital distribution ... and I declined investors -
I'm sure you can hear the money train departing without me already. I
might have rescued this effort and made a comeback, or been bought out,
but as the Corbus and PhotoDisc tested market waters I was distracted
by game development opportunities and my window closed shut under the
weight of their multimillion dollar ad campaigns. I still did fine by
them overall, but soon enough the sales dried up. Later, when my
partner and I split the assets I kept the company I had started and my
image libraries. Unfortunately, an under-handed licensing deal
orchestrated by my partner was hard to back out of and revealed she was
determined to retain some form of return no matter what. I vowed never
again.
So I buried them and burned that bridge behind me until recently when
some determined graphic artists tracked me down with beseeching demands
I sell them old stock piled up in a corner. This got me thinking about
my old pique -vs- new open-source models and how to turn this fallow
asset evergreen.
I've tinkered out a way to keep making these clever images that I love
w/o generating income from the older IP. My poor choice in business
partners would demand a portion of any measurable income & her
litigious parents would back any struggle even if I have a clear case
in my own mind. I'm still sorting this out, but expect to use a
subscription model of $24/year {2$/month for a new HD image every week,
or a mere ยข50 for a new one each week} access to the full Pro line, or
buy a set of my old stock for lifetime access to the all these new ones
I make. I offer a $5/year PayPal button up now for you early adopters
that I'll honor through the years. As I said, I'm still sorting this
out and welcome feedback.
Today I resolved technical issues with a recent server migration and by
the wee hours of this very night the high resolution files should be
available. Fingers crossed.
Gigabytes of fun. Enjoy!
- Jonathan -
Jonathan Gibson
www.formandfunction.com/word
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