Lamppost Gallery
http://www.lamppostgallery.co.uk
Brief
200 photos will be exhibited on lampposts across 5 areas as part of the West Leeds Arts Festival 2010. Four photographers from Flickr, and 5 schools will participate by providing 20 photos each. This website should feature all of the featured photos plus information about the festival and the people involved. The festival staff should be able to control all of the content featured on the site by logging in and updating the photographers or website copy.
Implementation
www.lamppostgallery.com is an AS3 Flash application which pulls most of it’s content from flickr. An XML file contains data for each of the featured photographers including; Name, Location, and flickr set id. This XML file can be edited via a PHP admin panel and enables festival organisers to configure the app exactly as they wish.
I really got to grips with custom events on this project, and ended up with a lot more custom classes than I had in any previous app, although I did re-use some of my Flickr classes from a previous project. Classes included ILWL2010.as (document class), ILWLProject.as, FlickrSet.as, FlickrSetEvent.as, FlickrPhoto.as, FlickrPhotoEvent.as, Logo3D.as, Logo3DEvent.as, …
I hope to expand this site further by making all content (including site name, 3D logo image, all copy etc) editable and publishing the code for others to use if they wish.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, after the exhibition was displayed some parents complained that images of their children were on public display, and all of the school content was removed from flickr by the festival organisers.