Artist profiles featuring a showcase of work. But, rather than single threads which will disappear over time they need to be part of a catalogue or something, or maybe you can just make a sticky with an index of the names of artists and with the names linking to the individual thread. yeh, that’d work. Next is the problem of displaying the work. Posting the work in single posts is messy and with any posting which may happen in between, work will get lost and whatnot. not good. I’m not sure if there is a practical away around this. If all the work is presented as an image then the posts will become mammoth, resulting in an internet lag. Maybe the work can be presented as a thumbnail which then links to the work off-site OR ILP creates a gallery! and the thumbnails link to the images in a gallery…
I think that for the first part, we’ll make a sticky with an index of the names of artists linking to the individual thread. What I’ll probably do is call the Sticky, “ILP Art History,” and as people create Art threads, I’ll create the links. How I’ll do this is just lock the topic to everyone except myself and I’ll add to it as appropriate.
I think that your first presentation idea where the thumbnail links to an image off-site is probably the best one. As much as I like the idea of a gallery, it would probably be pretty tough to put together, and in addition, I’d rather just have the links from the Sticky topic go to the Threads only.
Anyway, I imagine this process will probably take about one week to complete as I am going to do the linking and what-not for any and all Art images already posted in the Forum, and that will be the start of the Sticky Topic. Or, did you mean the thumbnails should be on the Sticky topic also?
How does this sound to you, Tengo Nada? Do you have any modifications or other recommendations for this project?
Yeh that sounds good. What kind of threads to you have in mind, my OP was solely concerning profiling artists, but it could be expanded too, essays and articles etc. i.e. actual art history instead of just a ‘hall of fame’ kinda thing.
The problem with the off-site linking is the ‘other’ sites, over time the images may disappear or the quality lacks somewhat, if it were all contained within ILP you could at least control some kind of regularity to the quality and display etc. there’s nothing more irritating than dead links
I’m not too clued up on forum technology. but there are various ways of approaching the gallery idea, that needn’t be too complex, you just need a way of controlling the images i.e. size and quality, and to then have some form of display with doesn’t become too burdensome e.g 20 images on 1 page. You could have a display of thumbnails, when clicked on they simply display the image in a new window or a pop-up window, i really don’t think that’s too difficult. but hey, it’s not my time being spent your call.
No, I thought the thumbnails would exist in each individual thread, i guess the index would get a little too cluttered as more thumbnails appear. But what is this ‘any and all’ you’re intending on linking too, there’s some general art from users and whatnot, I don’t think those should be included within the index.
All of the Art threads, what do you mean by Profiling artists? It’s going to be a history of all the Art that was posted in the Forum.
As a matter of fact, why don’t I Index it with different posts in the Sticky thread. We could have a post that links to threads about Renaissance Art, Abstract Art, User Art, User Photography…etc.
That’s all quality control, my friend! What I could do for that is, on a rotating basis, go to the Threads referenced in the Sticky topic and make sure the links still work. If the link no longer works, then I’ll delete the reference to that thread from the Sticky Topic. It really wouldn’t take that long, I figure if I do 20 links per night (I’m on six days a week) then we would complete the Rotation at least once per month.
I have no idea how to do anything you just said, including making there be a thumbnail!
Yeah, we’ll include general user. It’s an Art History Thread, so I think I’ll categorize it and seperate the categories into individual posts (in the Sticky topic) with the first post in the Sticky Topic serving as a Table of Contents, of sorts.
Do you mean making threads dedicated to certain Artists and then having a collection of their work + discussion in the threads, then having a Sticky Topic that goes with links to the Artist’s dedicated Thread?
Who would make the original Threads being linked to? I understand Business and Forum Management and Music, but I don’t know junk about Art besides what they have you learn in Elementary School when it comes to who are histroically great Artists and all of that.
Or, were you talking about a Thread with the History of what Art is posted on the Forum?
There’s not enough users’ art to begin with to justify an index. The index would include names, van Gogh, Klimt, Munch etc. etc. and any articles which people may happen to come across or whatnot, anything interesting pertaining to art really. The article thing could be good but it just depends on the amount people post. In the past it’s generally been non-existant but maybe if shit was put in place it may encourage people…maybe.
As to the question of who made make the posts, then we’d have to rely on users, I have done in the past under another alias (RebelEpsilon) I did an Aubrey Beardsley post and…a Dore post. If you search them then maybe you’d understand my intentions a little more.
You really don’t think there is enough User Art to justify an Index? Maybe if there was an Index more User’s would post Art, or maybe at least some photography would be cool. From browsing, I’ve seen at least a few threads to do with User Art.
I looked at your posts for the Profiles of Beardsley and Dore and I see what you mean when it comes to the importance of the thumbnails. The threads are quite cumbersome.
Anyway, here is my proposal. I’ll handle everything as it relates to making and maintaining a Sticky Topic having to do with ILP User Art & Photography. Especially cool would be pictures of the areas people are from, I didn’t catch who it was, but someone posted some nice pictures of London some time back. The second part of my proposal would involve creating a Sticky Topic where you would be in charge of bringing your Suggestion to life, because while it seems like a good idea, you seem to know more about how to go about that than I do.
Once you get it started, I can maintain it if you want, or you can continue to maintain it.
Hmmm, well as we’ve seen from my example posts (Dore & Beardsley) they don’t exactly work, cumbersome. Now, I merely posted those guys because I like their work. I don’t know much about art historically or theoretically, although I am interested…In future I may…on a whim, now and again, make a post about an artist but it may be simpler to just link off-site to wiki and to galleries of work so in effect, avoiding the mammoth posting of images. As these appear you could begin an index but we’ll have to see how it develops. I would definitely like to see a more interesting art forum…
That sounds like a plan, then. If we start getting more people posting histories and profiles of various artists, then I’ll work on putting an Index together. Aside from that, I think I will create a Sticky Topic having to do with user Art and Photography, and I definitely thank you for that idea because I don’t think I’d have thought of it had it not been for this conversation!
your call.