While in Guatemala late last year, I worked with  Common Hope.  The goal of Common Hope is to empower down on their luck Guatemalans to improve their situation, something I see parallels with even in web design (if you want to get into a philosophical discussion about the true goals of Content Management, let me know).  We built a home for a family without one, and when I returned to Minneapolis, I contacted the organization and asked how can I continue to help.  They of course had a project that needed some development.

Please check out the Common Hope Volunteer Network, which I’ve given some extra functionality to as well as hours of best practice consulting.  Excited to be working with them on an upcoming forum where volunteers can continue to communicate after their work has been provided!

So I’ve been interested in Stereoscopic Photography for a long long time.  Always drawn to those double image cards you put in the slide viewer at antique stores and flea markets.  Only recently have I seen this move into the main steam.  First with the latest album by TOOL, “10,000 Days”, and more recently Jame’s Cameron’s Avatar.  I’m experimenting with a few flavors of doing this myself, both in the hardware and the software.  Doing some tests today in my dirty kitchen (I’m packing), and exporting as an animated gif, should give the impression of 3D space.

This is just the first step and I’m experimenting both with camera technique and a javascript that would allow for the same result while keep file sizes down and quality up on the web (jpg rather than gif), without using Flash.

I always really enjoy blogs that show a process of something getting better and better, which is why I think I’m fine with showing my first example :)  Hopefully this will be here to look back on as how far I’ve come?