Back in April when I knew the RMS was going to close for three years for renovation I decided to do some panoramas to capture its pre-renovation state. As with many projects it reached a set level then sat on my hard drive without being launched. A chance conversation reminded me of it so I have put it on the web. Take a look at Royal Museum of Scotland – as it was in April ‘08 . You may find it looks better in Firefox than IE. I haven’t had a chance to mess with a Windows machine and work around the inevitable IE bugs.
The site uses the open source Java panoview rather than the commercial Pure viewer I have been playing with recently. Both approaches to publishing pans are rather clunky and inadequate I think.
Joscelyn (8 years old) came home with an assignment to write a poem about Scotland because it was near St Andrew’s day. The instructions on what was required were a bit confusing. She has a piece of paper with SCOTLAND written vertically down the edge so each line began with a letter. She had to write something Scottish on each line with a describing word. It is difficult to do it “properly” but fun if you relax the rules. Here is what dad came up with while cooking tea. We are debating whether to send it to school as Joscelyn’s work.
Serious surfs Crazy Ceilidhs Overly audacious Tartan Traversed Lochs and Lavies Atlantic Antlers reach Nearly to the North Sea Dundee; Cake of Kings
I spent a fun evening recently helping Jo Barker photograph her tapestries for an upcoming catalogue and exhibition. Her work is amazing. This one is my favourite of the session. Jo’s exhibition is at the Scottish Gallery and opens on 7th January.
