On 7/17/06, cbrumelle <colin@...> wrote:
> This last post reminded me of an interesting project I recently came
> across. Take a look at:
> http://honeybrown.ca/Pubs/BumpTop.html
> or the screen cast at youtube:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ
>
> I would love to see something like this adapted to tracks or albums,
> (with liner notes and album art). This would be the closet thing to
> leafing through my large stack of LP's that I can imagine.
It's pretty canny to bring up the issue of affordances. If you think
about the affordances of an MP3, it's an object with no visual form at
all. At best, users may have a mental picture of a bunch of zeroes
and ones imbued with potential sound.