I’m in Athens today at Ohio University, so it seems appropriate to give props to Soul of Athens, a new site spawned (I think) for the OU VisCom Department. But what I like most about it is the mix of folks involved. It’s good to see academia slipping out of its silos and spreading its wings. And the content is very cool.
The site is Flash-driven and sucks some bandwidth. The wireless connections I’ve been viewing it on are barely enough to render it, but it does work. And it errs a tad on the side of being too image driven. But given the abundance of text centric sites out there, I think I’d sooner err on the side of photos and video, most of which are beautiful on Soul of Athens.
I particularly liked the Die Donkey Skull piece. Dawn2Dusk also is a nice look at Athens from sunrise to sunset.
For interactivity, they’ve made it very easy to share each piece, and they have a blog and a Flickr group featuring user-submitted images of Athens.
All in all, great stuff. I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes from here …