{"id":2146,"date":"2010-11-28T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toki-woki.net\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2022-03-29T21:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:53:02","slug":"okr-story-of-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/toki-woki.net\/blog\/p2146-okr-story-of-a-failure","title":{"rendered":"Okr \u2013 Story of a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some projects become real, others never see the light of day. This one is more of an abortion.<\/p>\n

Six month ago I’ve been contacted by an architectural firm to provide some consulting on a project of theirs (I’m not going to name names, you’ll understand why). The goal was to find ideas to make a building’s front more interesting. The building being a place to help and promote Hip-Hop culture.<\/p>\n

So I started working on it and came up with ideas and concepts. The architect I was in contact with seemed pretty happy with it and everything was looking good.<\/p>\n

Until I no longer received any answer to my e-mails… Our last interaction is now 5 month old and I think time has come to mourn.\u00a0What I came up with can be interesting and since it involves an OpenSource project, here are a few bits about it.<\/p>\n

At that time I was discovering \u00a0GML<\/a> (Graffiti Markup Language) and Evan Roth<\/a>‘s work. Bordeaux hosted Les Grandes Travers\u00e9es<\/a> and all of this really inspired me. So I thought of a mash-up between GML’s #000000book<\/a> (black book, open archive of GML tags), a player of my own (Okr), the building itself and Twitter. Here’s the document I presented to explain what I had in mind.<\/p>\n

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The steps are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Creating and sending a graffiti;<\/li>\n
  2. Receiving data;<\/li>\n
  3. Converting it to an image;<\/li>\n
  4. Projecting it on the building’s front;<\/li>\n
  5. Photo-shooting of the front;<\/li>\n
  6. Sending to Twitter;<\/li>\n
  7. Online consultation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After a few e-mails with Jamie Wilkinson<\/a> (heads up!)\u00a0I started working on the core classes<\/a> writing GMLPlayer and GMLCreator. The goal was to provide both a way to display tags and to create\/upload them. I then built a UI around all that (a Flex one, after noticing Minimal Comps<\/a> didn’t work the way I expected).<\/p>\n

    [iframe src=”http:\/\/toki-woki.net\/p\/Okr\/” width=”752″ height=”506″]<\/p>\n

    Note: you’ll also find the app on its\u00a0dedicated page<\/a>.\u00a0Try searching for “dasp” or “hello world” for example and play with the settings (the 3 top sliders).<\/p>\n

    Unfortunately it is only after creating all this that I realized the project would never become real… So I simply stopped working on it. I am well aware that some parts of the code is a bit raw and could be optimized and\u00a0I haven’t built the creation\/upload feature into the UI yet. Don’t know if I will, but the project is OpenSource<\/a> so feel free to give it a spin! I also share my initial attempt<\/a> and a pixel version<\/a> in case you’re interested.<\/p>\n

    Pretty happy that \u2014 even if not feature complete \u2014 Okr made it to the GML project gallery<\/a>, yay!<\/p>\n

    And just because a project will never see the light of day doesn’t mean it doesn’t need a proper logo, right?<\/p>\n

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