Demarco

A simple HTML5 mobile/web app to showcase the work of photographer Richard Demarco

When: Apr 2012
Stack: JavaScript, Ruby, Padrino, MongoDB

Richard Demarco attended nearly all of the Edinburgh Fringe festivals over many years, documenting artists who were there with his camera. A lot of money was spend taking 15,000 of his images, scanning them, adding metadata and putting out on the web.

Trouble was, it was 2008 so it was a Flash site and it was really hard to find anything.

This was a quick hack. I’m not kidding - the last two hours of the event! Taking the images and making a better experience of viewing them on ipad, mobile and web. Thank you Twitter Bootstrap!

Culture Hack Scotland. 2 hours.

Screenshot, Demarco — Screenshot, 2012

source on GitHub

Exhibited

Culture Hack Scotland 2012

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