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Add imagery across the board and spiff up the home page visually #13

Open goldenmeanie opened 9 years ago

jamesrhaley commented 9 years ago

Since our logo is the lighthouse I have some cool pictures I took this summer at beavertail park of an intense sunset and waves crashing. Plus, there is also one of the light house at dusk. They might have the right theme for branding and such. Is there a place to send them?

Also I sent the pictures I took last night to Ryan but would be happy to send them your way.

theryankelly commented 9 years ago

I added the photos @jamesrhaley took last night along with some others to the Code Island Docs Repo https://github.com/codeisland/Code-Island-Docs/tree/master/Core%20Materials/Photos

Feel free to clone repo and add more images.

jamesrhaley commented 9 years ago

@theryankelly I just pushed the some photos to the master. Local flavor is always good for branding in my opinion. Also this is my first time pushing to another person repo so please let me know if I didn't do something right.

James

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I added the photos @jamesrhaley https://github.com/jamesrhaley took last night along with some others to the Code Island Docs Repo https://github.com/codeisland/Code-Island-Docs/tree/master/Core%20Materials/Photos

Feel free to clone repo and add more images.

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theryankelly commented 9 years ago

@jamesrhaley They look great!

jamesrhaley commented 9 years ago

@theryankelly Thank you!

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@jamesrhaley https://github.com/jamesrhaley They look great!

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Frymasterspeck commented 9 years ago

Providence Google image search filtered for non-commercial reuse

RI Google image search filtered for non-commercial reuse

goldenmeanie commented 9 years ago

@jamesrhaley sorry I didn't get to check in with you at the last meetup. The lighthouse and coastal landscapes look nice. I'd like to see more! I think there is a possible theme for the images we want to use on the site: civilization. Evidence of people coming together to solve collective problems. The lighthouse is actually a good example of this spirit. But by itself it seems to overly focus on the coastal beauty of the state.

What do you think?

jamesrhaley commented 9 years ago

@goldenmeanie I agree. The question is what represents "Evidence of people coming together to solve collective problems" here in Rhode Island. The first thing that came to my mind as a interesting photography subject is something to do with education. I really love that the fellows gave our state the pre-k enrollment app and I think it would be nice to honor that in some way. What do you think? Was there a particular angle that brought you to this conclusion?

On a side note I always go to google images for ideas and this came up when I typed in "collective problems." While a good Simpson angry mob might not be the right subject it would get a reaction!

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@jamesrhaley https://github.com/jamesrhaley sorry I didn't get to check in with you at the last meetup. The lighthouse and coastal landscapes look nice. I'd like to see more! I think there is a possible theme for the images we want to use on the site: civilization. Evidence of people coming together to solve collective problems. The lighthouse is actually a good example of this spirit. But by itself it seems to overly focus on the coastal beauty of the state.

What do you think?

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goldenmeanie commented 9 years ago

This is my personal view of what we're doing. It's the plumbing work of civilization, building infrastructure that enables other efforts.

I think there are examples of this that run from the concrete, like bridges and bike paths to the more etherial, like the Ticket to Ride app.

This type of thing will work best as background images and textures rather than as featured, inset images. I'm thinking of promoting a general feeling, not featuring specific examples. We should do that too, but I think should happen in the blog posts and project pages. That stuff should be more literal.

jamesrhaley commented 9 years ago

@goldenmeanie lets have a chat about this at the next meeting. It would be great if you had a couple of sample pictures of what you are thinking of.

James

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Alex Taylor notifications@github.com wrote:

This is my personal view of what we're doing. Doing the plumbing work of civilization, building infrastructure that enables other work. I think there are examples of this that run from the concrete, like bridges and bike paths to the more etherial, like the Ticket to Ride app. I think this type of thing will work best as background images and textures rather than as featured, inset images. I'm thinking of promoting a general feeling, not featuring specific examples. We should do that too, but I think that is more in the blog posts and project pages. That stuff should be more literal.

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