MX: Portfolio Concepts

After reviewing all them damn portfolio webernet sites and what nots, that eppelheimer posted I've decided a couple things about what I DON'T want my portfolio site to be.

—I don't want the images to take forever to load

—I don't want the site to take forever to load

—I don't want my images to be small

—I don't want to click things when a roll over would suffice

—I never want a new window to open to display work, NEVER

—I never want a shadow box, or lite box to open to display work

—I don't want music, unless the music is part of a video in the portfolio.

—I DON'T, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WANT MY WEBSITE TO BE A FACSIMILE OF SOME REAL LIFE THING THAT IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That being said, I've brain stormed these ideas so far.

—All the videos for the site are on youtube or vimeo, all the photos are on flickr, and all the copy is on blogger. The site pulls the information from all these places so what happens is i've used existing tools to jerry rig a content management system.

—An all iphone portfolio. The site will only be accessible via iphone. I know this is really elitist, and really esoteric, but given my audience, I think they'll have iphones.

—An augmented reality portfolio, in which the interaction takes place through physical interaction with the site. You are recorded by your web cam, and your actions are tracked and cause change. you navigate by pointing etc.

—A mouseless website. All interaction is done with keys. The navigation responds to numbers, and the image selection responds to letters. cmd Z enlarges images, and the arrows are used to scroll through text if necessary.

—A modal cursor. The nav and other interactive elements all exist within the cursor. A secondary click calls them up. This way you never have to move back to where the nav is to click it, but rather, all you have to do is right click for access.

That's all I have for now, maybe I'll come up with more ideas after tonights AIGA lecture.