Woohoo! :)
Well, it’s finally up. This is the side project that’s kept me occupied these past few weeks. Suffice it to say, I’m pretty excited right now to be launching this thing.
The project is called 3 Years 3 Minutes. I’ve taken every photograph from the past three years, put them in sequence, and made a movie of it. And, as the title suggests, I’ve compressed it down to three minutes and set it to music.
The site itself should be fairly straight-forward. If you run into any problems viewing it though, let me know. And though I do it on the site, I have to mention here that the high-res version is the way to go. View the embedded movie if you want, but the high-res version is the way I intended the movie to be seen (it’s just way too big to be streamed over the web).
Man. Now that it’s all done, after all this time… all I’m really doing is watching and waiting. I’ve sent out emails to friends, posted on the forums I frequent as well as on MySpace and Friendster. Hopefully this thing will get passed around. Right now, all I’m hoping for is a ton of traffic.
Deep down, I want the site to buckle under all the visitors. The idea of creating something and having it become viral has always been secret itch of mine.
I should be able to handle a decent amount of traffic (both 3years3minutes.com and avoision.com are on the same account). I’ve had a few spikes over the years, most notably the Netscape link and the Ebaumsworld link.
At the very worst of it, I ended up doing about 80 gigs of traffic in a month. As a result of those earlier bumps, I upgraded my hosting plan; currently, the plan I’m on allows me 100 gigs of traffic.
Were the site to tank due to all the visitors, I’d be ecstatic. But right now, 100 gigs seems like an awful, awful lot.
