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Excellent work! You can feel comfortable that you will have a long lasting legacy; it's a real snapshot of history, imagine having one of these from 1912. Would

by polshaw 14y ago

Excellent work! You can feel comfortable that you will have a long lasting legacy; it's a real snapshot of history, imagine having one of these from 1912. Would it be possible to see one or two of the individual images (to get a better perspective)?

nakedrobot2 14y ago
Thank you very much. This is actually a comforting thought. I hope the image actually does stick around far enough into the future for it to have the value you suggest. So much of what we create in the world of computers and software seems more like performance art than anything truly long-lasting.
- polshaw 14y ago
  You're welcome. By pushing the boundaries you create something with the potential to sustain as more than a throwaway gimmick. I agree the fragility of content in the online world is.. worrying, if you take a long term perspective. I imagine the licensing of this content is the major risk here, as presumably BT are holding the copyright (even without the legal hurdle I doubt anyone could download the whole thing, without considerable effort).. all it would take to kill it is for BT to lose interest. If you care about the legacy i would push for BT to allow the data to be shared (eventually), although i doubt this would work (mostly for bureaucratic reasons). If you have access to the work then i know what i would do; make 2 back ups to be stored in safe, separate places, to be released upon retirement, death, or BT losing interest (or ceasing to exist!). As raw as possible (they will have better image editing and stitching in photoshop 2110!). If this were free in the wild i guarantee it would last for at least 100's of years; storing a few TB of data is only going to get easier, and it's cultural/historical significance is only going to increase over time. [hint: do this] IMO there are few works able to offer the quantity of insight into some aspects of early 21st C life, or the state of London.
  - nakedrobot2 14y ago
    These are nice suggestions. I have been considering how to make some of my works Creative Commons in order to get them disseminated more (and also to hopefully make even more money from them) BT does not hold the copyright. However they do "own" the image for at least a while - they are the client, and we want to keep them happy of course :-) Cheers!

by polshaw 14y ago

nakedrobot2 14y ago

Thank you very much. This is actually a comforting thought. I hope the image actually does stick around far enough into the future for it to have the value you suggest. So much of what we create in the world of computers and software seems more like performance art than anything truly long-lasting.

polshaw 14y ago
You're welcome. By pushing the boundaries you create something with the potential to sustain as more than a throwaway gimmick. I agree the fragility of content in the online world is.. worrying, if you take a long term perspective. I imagine the licensing of this content is the major risk here, as presumably BT are holding the copyright (even without the legal hurdle I doubt anyone could download the whole thing, without considerable effort).. all it would take to kill it is for BT to lose interest. If you care about the legacy i would push for BT to allow the data to be shared (eventually), although i doubt this would work (mostly for bureaucratic reasons). If you have access to the work then i know what i would do; make 2 back ups to be stored in safe, separate places, to be released upon retirement, death, or BT losing interest (or ceasing to exist!). As raw as possible (they will have better image editing and stitching in photoshop 2110!). If this were free in the wild i guarantee it would last for at least 100's of years; storing a few TB of data is only going to get easier, and it's cultural/historical significance is only going to increase over time. [hint: do this] IMO there are few works able to offer the quantity of insight into some aspects of early 21st C life, or the state of London.
- nakedrobot2 14y ago
  These are nice suggestions. I have been considering how to make some of my works Creative Commons in order to get them disseminated more (and also to hopefully make even more money from them) BT does not hold the copyright. However they do "own" the image for at least a while - they are the client, and we want to keep them happy of course :-) Cheers!