Sijun Forums :: View topic - Website Launch! IMAGINARY REALMS: The Art of Luis Diaz

MrLuisDiaz · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 9:08 am

Announcing :: set to launch :: midnight 10.31.01 (hallow's eve)
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IMAGINARY REALMS: The Art of Luis Diaz http://www.ldiaz.com

Imaginary Realms is the promotional new website featuring the artwork of Miami-based artist Luis Diaz.
Diaz's work is both dark and surreal; highly evocative, conceptual and at times both emotional and political.
The site features a wide range of work: comics, paintings, illustrations and even his initial concepts and
preliminary sketches. Designed by Atomic Bubble, (Washington DC), Imaginary Realms is not only a promotional
website for the artist but an engaging experience for the viewer as well. It explores merely a sliver of Diaz's complex and extensive body of work; a glimpse into Diaz's mind and creative depths that have come to be called, his Imaginary Realms. Enter the Darkness... www.ldiaz.com
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roundeye · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 9:23 am

GAH! thats like, hours away!

Siftland · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 3:28 pm

I've had the site bookmarked a while...Can't wait for it to go live.

MrLuisDiaz · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 10:01 pm

It's up. The waiting is over.

Isric · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 10:08 pm

Oh wait, you mean you're launching it at 12:00
Ooooooookay, I was wondering why you were only displaying a logo...

[ October 31, 2001: Message edited by: Isric ]

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 11:38 pm

Sweet shit bro. Good work.

MDM

jcFIG · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2001 11:44 pm

Ditto what cybertoker said. I loved the flash presentation of your site. It's awesome and very professional.

You know I have always like your art since I first saw it at Nicks Asylum Forums.

Jezebel · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2001 12:00 am

Wow... very cool site, it seems so fitting for your style. You're work is really amazing, I love it.

ex · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2001 4:23 am

I've been looking at the site for the last like, 2 hours. wow. What I like the best so far is Me and My Conscience.

Cos · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2001 4:32 am

Yo cool stuff luiz! I enjoyed looking at your work.

c · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2001 7:46 am

great, i just hope you didn't write the press release yourself

. then again... some people enjoy referring to themselves in third person.

i just had a question, where are the images stored? my popupkiller kills your image popups

. if i know the location of the images then i can exclude it. since it's in flash i can't access the image urls.

MrLuisDiaz · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2001 3:20 pm

The press release was written by a friend and thanks guys for checking it out. I thought the web designer did a terrific job.

dead · member Member # Joined: 18 Feb 2001 Posts: 489

Well, my site isn't much so I can't talk, but- I found it a little slow and confusing.

AcjBizar · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2001 4:29 pm

Looks great!

Ahcri · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2001 6:35 pm

You have a pretty good collection of work there, I just can't get enough of "Siamese Scream", it's so Francis Bacon-esque.

Frosted Flame · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2001 8:39 pm

Wow.. what a cool experience.

Your designer did a wonderful job. I totally dig the design. Very cool. The resolutions of your pics are quite small though, almost thumbnail-ish. I'd like to see your work displayed a little less timidly. Other than that, I think it kicks ass.

c · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2001 6:02 am

i agree with greenpeach on the slowness. flash is kind of annoying as it is, but slow flash...

i think u could speed up the some of the transition animations a bit.

as for the artwork, simply fantastic stuff. i'm just dissapointed they are so small! you should do all of us a favor and prove some higher resolution images.

hopefully the resulting bandwidth requirements won't deter you! ^_^

BaTuSaI · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2001 9:17 am

I Have a 56k modem and don't care how much it takes to load, what bugs me is the size of the pictures, it goes against every rule, your designer is making you loose a lot of the impact in your images, they should at least cover the main menu (the window), that's no hard thing to do

Socar MYLES · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2001 9:26 pm

I think the one thing that's missing is text.... It would be great if you said a little about some of those pictures...maybe had a short paragraph in the popup windows along with the art.

MrLuisDiaz · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2001 12:00 am

I will let my designer know your thoughts, but one of the reasons it is small is so it won't take that much time to load between categories.

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2001 12:27 am

I think that's a great idea Socar.
Yes Luis, you should add some text to those puppies.
I think the image size is fine. Plus, your guaranteeing that no one can down load high res images from your site for free. It's a good way to insure you won't find a poster of one of your paintings somewhere that was made without your permission.
Know what I'm sayin'?

It would be nice to see some info next to those images though. At least the medium, size, etc.

Take it easy,
MDM