An always beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting site documenting the daily life of Philip’s 98 year-old father after his mother passed away. It’ll tug at you.
Aside from the personal story, the site’s navigation is worth exploring. Move your mouse to the bottom of a photo to partially expose the next one. Click it to move forward. Same thing goes for the top of an image, except that you move backwards. Move your mouse all the way to the left to reveal thumbnails. It’s not obvious, but when you can’t figure out what to do next you begin to explore. Then your mouse will eventually discover the system. You can also keep your mouse fixed at the bottom of an image and just click-click-click to move through.
Matt Wiebe
on 28 Jul 08Wow, fantastic site, fantastic content.
I also noticed that this is a rare case of a Flash site updating the URL bar between states. Lovely.
Javier Cabrera [EmaStudios]
on 28 Jul 08Damn… Jason, this site really got into my skin. Made me sad and made me think about my family and how I will face the fact my parents are like 8 years or 10 from death…
Just… damn. Life is so short. Hope to make any difference…
Chad Crowell
on 28 Jul 08Beautiful story and photos. Unique navigation allows you to concentrate on just what is in front of you – but I do have to admit a bit of frustration at first.
Thanks for the link – caused me to email a quick “I love you” to my parents.
Bob Monsour
on 29 Jul 08Thanks Jason.
Michael (Nozbe)
on 29 Jul 08Wow! Great site, inspiring story… and you’re right – cool navigation technique.
It’s incredible people can still live so long… it’s time to do more exercise daily just as this dad did.
Adam
on 29 Jul 08I saw this the other day (via Cpluv I think) and was just admiring it, the site, the quality of the photos the story etc.
I hated all flash sites until I saw this one, now I just hate them all except this one.
FYI you can also use the mouse wheel to scroll through the pages
John
on 29 Jul 08Thank you.
Shane
on 29 Jul 08One note about the misleading nature of “Life Expectancy” numbers:
They of course include still births, childhood illness, workplace accidents, etc.
I read recently that if you live to 50, your LE is well over 80 years.
krist0ph3r
on 29 Jul 08amazing link. really touched me.
i’m still skeptical about sites that need more than 5 seconds to figure out. most people i know (myself included) will either close the tab or bookmark and subsequently forget it. i’m sure the designer could have put a little visual cue in without losing the impact.
Jack
on 29 Jul 08Great to get something to bring you back to reality
sheppy
on 29 Jul 08How wonderfully moving but so simple. thx for link.
Jack
on 30 Jul 08True, beautiful site: intent and presentation. Navigation is … different. Did like how images (a primary element of the site) also act as navigation, in an elegant unobtrusive fashion. Well done. And, again, beautifully presented. Although. Points to krist0pher re: “i’m sure the designer could have put a little visual cue in without losing the impact.” True that, too.
Jason
on 30 Jul 08great post
André
on 30 Jul 08The photos and the writing are inspiring, lovely and just plain awesome.
The navigation, however, is rather disappointing. Moving your mouse turns the calmness of the site into ugly hectic flashing. (Apart from the fact that other interested seniors may have a hard time reading the content because you can’t increase font width.)
What they should have done is show the links at any time. And used HTML. ;-)
dan phillips
on 30 Jul 08‘brings you back to reality’, ‘emailed i love you’, ‘navigation rather disappointing’ ... in some ways this sums up the state of the internet today.
Web Major
on 30 Jul 08@ Andre:
There is no hectic flashing for me. It is smooth and a great display of flash. As a front-end coder who typically loathes flash-based layouts, I don’t know how you can even begin to pan this one.
Let’s just enjoy this one and for once not delve into the technical merits or shortcomings of it.
It’s a wonderful and touching story.
anon
on 30 Jul 08Fails for the iPhone =(
kjbro0me
on 01 Aug 08“fails for the iPhone”...for now :) ironically the iPhone seems like the natural environment for a navigation design like this.
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