Streetfiles.org

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Just a little promo screencast how streetfiles will look like. This video can also be found here.

it’s about time: after the succesful transfer and implementation of our servers, we are starting the first beta round. from now on selected pioneers will put streetfiles to the acid test to get the system sweating. we are aiming at getting rid of its last bugs within the next 4 weeks in order to finally get this baby on the road.

a few things still need to be done - but with the help or beta testers we will fix those last details, and then will welcome everyone on our site. so let’s get going…

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In the video above you can see the servers on which (of course among some other projects) the final streetfiles website will be hosted (by fortrabbit). They are incredibly loud and produce a lot of heat.

This is the real “green IT” (-: the control lights are blinking green.

Our promotion agency (Lutz) just sent us this photo of one of our graffitinet stickers in Ushuaia, the capital of the Argentinean province Tierra del Fuego.

Soon we will produce new stickers announcing the website’s new name: streetfiles.org

When planning the relaunch of the site with the Graffitinet.com team last summer we didn’t actually think about the old images at all. From our point of view we might as well have started from scratch - but for the Graffitinet guys it was important to keep their 20,000 images.

Migrating such a big amount of data isn’t trivial and takes a lot of time. We spents hours and hours looking through the imagery and discovered heaps of hidden gems. On streetfiles.org it will be way easier to find these gems in the mass of images as of course there is a lot of average stuff as well.

This small selection of 12 pics out of the 20,000 gives a good overview on the wide range of images. They are spanning almost 20 years from the beginning of the nineties till now, and in terms of themes and targets they are at least as diverse.

Saint, Flame (Zagreb)

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Today we registered the domain streetfiles.net which now also leads here. We decided that we will only promote streetfiles.org in the future. Anyway it is nice to have two top level domains with the same name. But i guess we will never get the matching .com variant.

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We dug a few thousand graffitinet-stickers out of the archives and started putting them up. Some were even sent to places like Paris or Barcelona.
Welcome if YOU are here because you read the URL on a sticker and found the link to this blog in the top left corner of graffitinet.com. You have just proven that street promotion works.

As of today we have 25000 pictures online on good old graffitinet.com. Its nearly enough now and its time to pass it over to the new crew. Of course most images will be imported to the new system.
I have some numbers and statistics. We launched in 2001 with a little bit more than 5000 pictures. Most of them were analog and scanned. Public upload started in July 2001. In the beginning of 2002 we had 6656 pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

Many days of planning, discussing, designing and coding lay behind us: More than 50% of the work on streetfiles.org is completed. We still have a fair bit of work in front of us but the launch in spring 2008 is slowly coming into reach.

These screenshots show the state of development:

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If not us krauts, who else could come up with such a big graffiti website project? Only the dutchmen!

So we recieved a mail from the netherlands yesterday. It seems as if our research was not complete.

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