"celebrity websites"
Sunday, April 04, 2010The one thing I HATE about celebrity websites is the way that they always seem to hardsell themselves, on their own friggin web page.
A few examples of how:
- Countless amount of self-portraits decorating the main page (or a HUGE one covering 60% of the page)- A million gazillion images of them in their gallery (all the same poses, different attires)- Standard 3 column layout with hundreds of advert links to celebrity-stalking-sites (E!, Vanity Fair, Perez Hilton, OMG, etc)- Boring posts about which events they're attending [insert photo] what they're wearing [insert brand] what they're gonne be working on [insert more photos], etc.
To sum it all up, NO ORIGINALITY.
And their web layout always seems to be done by the same person, big headers of their best photo on top, coupled by a few dozen photos of themselves on the sidebars and those annoying gazillion adverts.
Which is why I really HATE celebrity sites, they tend to be useless (unless you're searching for photos) and so boring.
And these are usually the websites of A-list and B-list celebrities. (Not to mention even a couple of C & D-listers too)
But I manage to discover two really awesome websites, by in my opinion, rather low-down A-list celebrities.
Why lowdown?
Well, they're not as showy neither are they glamzoniacs like the vast majority of A-listers.
They are equally as famous, successful and well known.
And yet they manage to have pretty unique & tasteful websites (thank God!).
This may not come as a surprise to those of you who knows me, but the first one belongs to Tim Burton.
Yep, if you don't know who he is, you might as well go drown yourself in a pool of burning larva.
www.timburton.com
It starts off with instructions on how to navigate around the site.
The most interesting navigation ever, you have to use your arrow keys to move that character there, which he calls StainMan.
Mouse-clicking is useless, you need to move StainMan around if you want to see anything at all.
Do keep the sound ON, it's very nice. :)
After entering, you can choose to enter the public or private gallery.
The public gallery. Loads of very beautiful artworks.
His website loads with an earthworm (or millipede) crawling in circle.
This would be his main page, a lot of clickable animated things on the page.
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