Re: Update

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, James Purchase wrote:

> > think.  He still does not yet comprehend exactly what the showcase entails
> > (eg, no idea that it's all on the web, features often lush descriptions by
> > the aquascape creators, or that the whole thing is already basically DONE
> > but for the judging).
> 
> I don't know what Dave expects or wants from me/us.

BING BING BING BING!

It's actually the other way.  
He has two pages in PAM for "showcase".
Dave doesn't know what we expect from him! 


> > So where do we go now: What *he'd* like to do (the "offer") is for me to
> > send him a CD with all of the showcase "images", and he can pick out which
> > ones he wants for the two-page spread.  Personally, I think that's
> > preposterous (but that's Dave for ya), so what *I* think we should do
> > ("counter-offer") is pre-select some nice images *ourselves* that are
> > representative of the diversity and print well in color, write up some
> > caption and article material, and submit them.  Perhaps, give him a little
> > extra so that he can choose, say, five photos out of seven?
> 
> This is really up to the AGA MC to decide. I have an opinion, but it is up
> to the MC to decide the route to take.
> 
> 1. If Dave wants a CD, he should pay for it like everyone else. If the AGA
> MC wants to _give_ him one, that's up to the MC.

Again, just so you know, we're talking three different CD's here.  One of
these is the judge CD that was sent out already, and has just viewable
pictures (without the copyright notices burned in directly) and ties in to
the website. The second, the one to be sold through the AGA, is geared
towards the end-user, and has stuff like a modified version of the web
front-end to guide the users through the disk, and a tie-in like the judge
CD, but the images all have the copyright burned in.  There is a THIRD CD,
which contains all the photos and drawings in their original virgin form
and resolutions; if someone were planning on publishing pictures from the
showcase, *THIS* is where I would work from, not from either of the other
two disks.

I'm trying to come up with something cooperative here, not hindering.  If
we want someone to publish a photo, then we should give them the best
possible quality, but only the material we'd like to see, right?  It's not
that we want to keep Dave away from the images, I'd just rather coordinate
which ones he PUBLISHES so that it fits with our own plans. The easiest
way to insure this happens is to only give him the full-quality images we
select.  If we sent him a whole CD but with a post-it note on it saying
"please only publish #203, #407 and #108", what do you suppose the odds
are that he'll forget the post-it note?


> At this point in time, nobody can prepare much in the way of an article for
> publication anywhere. 
...
> I have been too close to this project for too long to be very objective in
> any of this. It will require some time to digest the results before I would
> be able to author anything which would be of interest to a general
> readership about the signifigance of the event or the entries we received.

I think we could get out a representative two-page spread, along with your
paragraph written on the website, that would look great in the Q4 PAM.  
If you don't want tocreate it, but are OK with the concept, I would be
happy to do so.

   - Erik

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Erik Olson
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