Before I Die I Want To

http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_delhi.html

by thewarrior • 13 years ago

62 39 13 years ago

danso• 13 years ago

Powerful content. At the risk of being pedantic, I think the site would be a better service to its content by using a standard vertical scroll layout. I viewed many of the photos but found it too easy to stop because of the difficulty in side scrolling

halcyondaze• 13 years ago

I would have to second this, I actually didn't know it was horizontal scrolling. Great stuff though, like the aesthetics!

iffyuva• 13 years ago

whats wrong with horizontal scroll? If a site has both horizontal and vertical scroll, the site looks messy! Horizontal scroll is also good to scroll pictures.

Hopka• 13 years ago

You cannot use a scroll wheel, which is annoying enough.

phatbyte• 13 years ago

I totally missed it. If it weren't for your I wouldn't even see it. There's only a "scroll right >" in a very light grey and small font.

Including a bigger arrow icon after the right photo would help.

drharris• 13 years ago

Agreed, great content being hidden by poor usability.

garysweaver• 13 years ago

Agreed. Great site, but just noticed that when one of the pics is missing, it tries to fit another pic on the same screen and looks pretty nasty. Reloaded page and can't reproduce unfortunately, but it was part of: http://beforeidieiwantto.org/india_gujarat.html

The inability to scroll left/right kills it. Also, some of the text from the top bleeds between the pictures at 1366x768.

Lambdanaut• 13 years ago

I think the content is better suited to a horizontal layout because of its shape.

You can argue against the usability of it if you wish, but I think Javascript hijacking the scroll wheel and converting scrolling vertically to scrolling horizontally would be really useful in this case.

jaynos• 13 years ago

A nice hover scroll effect (not sure if that is the correct term) like browsing netflix would be great.

lepunk• 13 years ago

A similar idea was implemented at the 2011 Hungarian "Sziget" festival. They installed a huge wall where visitors were able to write their "Before I die" messages.

http://sziget360.com/panorama/link/762

davidcollantes• 13 years ago

"ERROR: Adobe Flash Player 9/10 or higher needed."

ohwp• 13 years ago

If you like this also check http://beforeidie.cc/

philliphaydon3• 13 years ago

I can't even read half of these, peoples handwriting is so terrible. One there says "Before I die I want to raise a child" but it took be a full minute to not read it as "I want to ride a child"

philliphaydon3• 13 years ago

Why the downvotes?

ludston2• 13 years ago

Because reading criticism of a group of non-native-English speakers' handwriting is a waste of life.

danielrm26• 13 years ago

Before he dies he wants to run nginx and varnish caching so that his site will survive the front page of HN.

verroq• 13 years ago

Keep pressing F5 until it loads.

friendly_chap• 13 years ago

If the site still doesn't load you can fix it by issuing

$ ab -n 1000000 -c 500 http://beforeidieiwantto.org/

pramodh• 13 years ago

I just usually visit the cached version from Google. Here's a script that I wrote a few days back. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/169548

chewxy• 13 years ago

The disparity between what I can assume to be the local Delhi populace and the backpackers/travellers is huge.

The Indian kids just want to study, while the adults want to own houses/shops. The travellers on the other hand, have more abstract goals.

Fascinating. And also sad upon further thought

cmdkeen• 13 years ago

It's a pretty good example of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - the travellers are firmly at the self actualisation stage whereby they do not need to focus on fulfilling lower needs.

michaelhealy• 13 years ago

I made a site with a similar concept but instead of "Before I die", Its "Someday I Want". The link is http://www.somedayiwant.com

j_col• 13 years ago

Yeah, I've seen many similar, some examples:

http://www.mybigambitions.com/

http://www.bucketlist.org/

And probably the oldest of them all?

http://www.43things.com/

sramam• 13 years ago

I too had built something like this while learning to build web-sites: http://www.groovydream.com/get_a_bunch/1

Surprisingly, people still post occasionally....

Aardwolf• 13 years ago

"Service Temporarily Unavailable"

I hope the website could do what it wanted to before this.

marknutter• 13 years ago

Before I die I want to live until I'm at least 100 years old.

kaoD• 13 years ago

Before I Die I want To... Service Temporarily Unavailable.

That made me laugh :P

krosaen• 13 years ago

Poignant: "... I want to study."

Amusing: "... I want a government job."

audreyt• 13 years ago

Poetic: "Antes de Morir, Yo quiero Dormir."

scotty79• 13 years ago

Before I die I want to see two legged robot running gracefully a rocky mountain path.

otibom2• 13 years ago

I think you have a good chance of doing that unless you're over 70 :)

topherjaynes• 13 years ago

You sure it wasn't inspired by Candi Chang? Not even a nod? http://candychang.com/before-i-die-in-nola/

hawkharris• 13 years ago

I almost cringed when I saw the juxtaposition of India and New York; I thought this project, like others I have seen, was discrediting the life goals of Americans to trivialize so-called First World problems.

But that was far from the truth. It presented the stories of people in New York, India and in hospices with equal care and respect. I love the colors and the look of old film, too.

otibom2• 13 years ago

Before I die I want to go to space.

pavanred• 13 years ago

I think I noticed a lot more kids from Delhi as opposed to barely any kids from NYC. Perhaps that affects the overall picture.

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