Web Show of the Week Archive

Vietnam. Week of August 8, 2005. This week's show is a selection of images of Vietnam, from the Best Photos Vietnam Web site. Click here to download the show.

Space Shuttle Discovery. Week of August 1, 2005. The space shuttle Discovery rocketed into space last week, and is currently docked at the International Space Station. This week's show features high resolution images from the mission. Click here to download the show.

Civil Rights. Week of July 25, 2005. This week's show is taken from a recently-concluded exhibit at the Library of Congress. Voices of Civil Rights documents events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Click here to download the show.

Deep Impact. Week of July 18, 2005. Two weeks ago, on July 4, 2005, as part of the Deep Impact mission, NASA slammed a probe into the comet Temple 1. The goal of this mission is to learn more about the comet's composition, and, by extension, the composition of the early solar system in which it, and earth, were formed. This week's show features photos from before, during and after that event. Click here to download the show.

Fire trucks. Week of July 11, 2005. This week we shipped our new DoorStop X firewall. In recognition of the event, this week's Envision Show of the Week is of over a thousand different fire trucks. Click here to download the show.

July 4. Week of July 4, 2005. What else! This week's show is a collection of photos from this year's July 4 parade in Open Door Networks' home town of Ashland, Oregon. We've got one of the best! Click here to download the show.

Patagonia. Week of June 27, 2005. Last week it was beaches to celebrate the start of summer in the north. This week it's icebergs and glaciers to celebrate the start of winter in the south. This week's show is a collection of photographs from the Patagonia region of Argentina. Enjoy! Click here to download the show.

Beaches. Week of June 20, 2005. Summer begins this week in the northern hemisphere. This week's show is a collection of beach photographs. Enjoy! Click here to download the show.

National Press Photographers Association. Week of June 13, 2005. This week's show is from the National Press Photographers Association Web site. The show includes thousands of gripping images from the association's many competitions. Click here to download the show.

Russian modern art. Week of June 6, 2005. This week's show is from a top Russian design firm, Art. Lebedev Studio. The show includes a large number of high resolution (1600x1200) images of the company's posters. Be sure to check out the company's very interesting Web site, available in Russian, French and English. Click here to download the show.

World War II photos. Week of May 30, 2005. In honor of Memorial Day, this week's show features high resolution black-and-white World War II photos from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Click here to download the show.

Sprott's Fractals. Week of May 23, 2005. This week's show includes hundreds of images based on the mathematical concept of fractals. Fractals are objects with infinite levels of self-similarity. These images are from Sprott's Fractals at the University of Wisconsin. Click here to download the show.

Digital art of Charles Carver. Week of May 16, 2005. This week's show features the digital art of Charles Carver. Charles was one of the winners of the Macworld digital art contest, sponsored by Open Door Networks. Click here to download the show.

War photos. Week of May 9, 2005. This week's show is a somber one. Recently released photos of "War Casualty Honor Ceremony Images" as displayed at The George Washington University's National Security Archive. Click here to download the show.

Doorstops. Week of May 2, 2005. Normally an Envision show of doorstops would be pretty unexciting. But we're very excited this week about our new DoorStop X firewall, so please forgive us (and please check out the product -- we shipped the first Mac firewall ever, in 1998). Click here to download the show.

Tiger(s). Week of April 25, 2005. Tiger ships this week! In honor of Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4, this week's show is a collection of Tiger photos from Tigers in the Sky. Click here to download the show.

Reprise: Macworld 2005 Digital Art Gallery. Week of April 18, 2005. This week's show is again of the Macworld 2005 Digital Art Gallery, to highlight Open Door's announcement this week that Envision is now on tour with that Gallery as it travels to art museums throughout the country. Click here to download the show.

The Empire State Building. Week of April 11, 2005. This week's show is of photographs taken during the building of the Empire State Building in New York City from 1930-1931. The show is from one of a large number of online exhibitions from the New York Public Library. Click here to download the show.

Kids with Cameras. Week of April 4, 2005. This week's show is of photographs from the Kids with Cameras organization. The work of this organization was recently highlighted in the Academy award-winning documentary "Born into Brothels". Click here to download the show.

WPA Posters. Week of March 28, 2005. Like last week, this week's show is also from the Library of Congress. It's highlights from the LOC's WPA Poster Collection. This collection includes 900 posters from Franklin Roosevelt's Work Projects Administration. Click here to download the show.

American Memory Collection. Week of March 21, 2005. This week's show is of the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection. This amazing collection includes thousands of historically and culturally important images with over 100 distinct themes. The Collection itself also has an interesting history, detailed here. If anything typifies what the Web is all about, it's this collection. Click here to download the show.

Macworld 2005 Digital Art Gallery. Week of March 14, 2005. This week's show is of the Macworld 2005 Digital Art Gallery, recently posted to the Macworld site. The Art Gallery was sponsored by Open Door Networks and will soon be touring to various museums throughout the country. Click here to download the show.

Snow crystals. Week of March 7, 2005. This week's show is of an astounding array of snow crystals from a site at Caltech university. Thanks to the folks at TidBITS for submitting this show. Be warned, however, that the author said the site "shot the next hour completely out of my day." It's that astounding. Click here to download the show.

Mars montage. Week of February 28, 2005. Europe's Mar Express sent back some amazing images from the Red Planet last week. Just put this show in the background and watch as the views come in (it takes a little while for the first "transmission"). Click here to download the show.

Presidential montage. Week of February 21, 2005. It being Presidents' Day here in the US, this week's show is a montage of presidential portraits from American Presidents: Life Portraits. The montage display feature is new to Envision 1.1. Click here to download the show.

Happy Valentine's Day. Week of February 14, 2005. This week's show features a number of animated Valentine's Day cards from dgreetings.com. Click here to download the show.

Digital art of Bruce MacLeod. Week of February 7, 2005. This week's show features the digital art of Bruce MacLeod. Bruce was one of the winners of the Macworld digital art contest, sponsored by Open Door Networks. Click here to download the show.

Cathy's getting married. Week of January 31, 2005. Who's Cathy? Cathy is a popular comic strip, originally started in 1976. And it's taken that long for its title character to finally get married. But it's about to happen. The Cathy Web site maintains an archive of recent strips, and they make a great Envision show, which adds the newest strip each day.

Titan. Week of January 24, 2005. On January 14 the Huygens probe, launched from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, landed on the surface of Saturn's major moon Titan, sending back an amazing wealth of data as it descended through Titan's atmosphere and landed on the surface. This week's Web Show of the Week presents the raw data from that landing in a very interesting and dynamic show.

Macworld/SF 2005. Week of January 17, 2005. The annual rite that is Macworld has just concluded, with its usual array of announcements large and small (including a number by us). This week's Web Show of the Week features photos of the show from MyMac.com. Click here to download the show.

The Louvre. Week of January 3, 2005. Open Door just announced that it is sponsoring the Digital Art Contest and Gallery at Macworld Expo next week. So it seems appropriate that this week's Web Show of the Week features the best of the best in art. Specifically masterpieces from the Louvre's collection. Click here to download the show.

Modern Art. Week of December 27, 2004. This week's show features creations by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. For those of you attending MacWorld in San Francisco next month, the SF Museum of Modern Art, right next to the show, is featuring an exhibit of Lichtenstein's work. Click here to download the show.

Christmas Scenes. Week of December 20, 2004. This week's show, based on pictures from Operation Letters to Santa, pretty much speaks for itself. Happy holidays to all! Click here to download the show.

Architecture and Art. Week of December 13, 2004. This week's show can best be described by its site's subtitle: "Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern." The site contains over 10,000 images from around the world. Please be sure to view this show with Envision 1.0.2, which contains performance improvements for large shows like this one. Click here to download the show.

The Hebrew alphabet. Week of December 6, 2004. Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins this week. Our Envision Show of the Week is of the Hebrew alphabet, a number of characters of which play a leading role in the Hanukkah game of dreidel. Click here to download the show.

Virtual Worlds. Week of November 29, 2004. This week's Envision Web Show of the Week is out of this world. Literally. The show features one of the many Virtual World sites on the World Wide Web. This show and these intricate worlds are especially impressive on a wide screen display like that of the iMac G5. Click here to download the show.

Airplanes. Week of November 22, 2004. This week's Show features one of the large number of Airplane sites on the Web. The photos on this site, at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, come from Usenet newsgroup postings. "Plane spotting" seems to be quite a hobby! Click here to download the show.

MacWorld Digital Art Contest. Week of November 15, 2004. Part of MacWorld Expo for the past few years has been a Digital Art Contest. MacWorld/SF is coming up in January, and another Digital Art Contest is planned. This week's Envision Show of the Week highlights winners from last year's contest. Please be sure to stop by Open Door's MacWorld booth in January to see how Envision is changing the definition of digital art. Click here to download the show.

Fall in Yellowstone. Week of November 8, 2004. This week's show highlights the amazing fall display in Yellowstone National Park, with pictures from the National Park Service. Yellowstone is the oldest national park in the U.S. Click here to download the show.

Red Sox Win!!!. Week of November 1, 2004. The Boston Red Sox are World Champions! For the first time in 86 years! This week's Show of the Week is actually a repeat of one published a couple months back, but the Sox winning is so unusual that we think it's appropriate. The repeat show also demonstrates one of the many cool aspects of Envision: shows automatically update themselves as their underlying sites change. So the show now includes pictures of the Sox playoffs and World Series victories and the victory parade through Boston last weekend. Click here to download the show.

U.S. Stamps. Week of October 25, 2004. This week's show presents an excellent overview of US postage stamps. It's based on the National Postal Museum at the Smithsonian Institute. This site does not, however, provide enlargements of each stamp, which is something we're still looking for. Please let us know if you find any such site. Click here to download the show.

Trains. Week of October 18, 2004. This week's show highlights one of the many excellent train sites on the Web. Click here to download the show.

Museum of Computer Art. Week of October 11, 2004. Turn your Macintosh into truly modern art! This week's show is a sampling of works from the Museum of Computer Art. We like to call Envision "Your Macintosh as Modern Art," and with pieces from this show it most certainly will be! Click here to download the show.

Cool cars. Week of October 4, 2004. This week's show is of hi-res cars from DesktopMachine.com. We're highlighting Ferrari's here, but the site contains over sixty different makes, so you can experiment with shows of your favorites. These photos' high resolution make them great for use as desktop pictures or screen savers, a task for which Envision is particularly well suited. Click here to download the show.

Boston Red Sox baseball. Week of September 27, 2004. This is the last week of major league baseball's regular season, and this week's show is of highlights from recent Boston Red Sox games. Having not won the World Series since 1918, Red Sox fans remain always hopeful that "this will be the year." We'll see, as the playoffs start next week. Click here to download the show.

Pacific Northwest Flowers. Week of September 20, 2004. This week's show is of flowers from the Pacific Northwest, specifically Washington state and British Columbia. Each flower in the show is captioned with information about the flower. This information comes from the "ALT" attribute in the site's HTML. Webmasters should use this attribute whenever they can. Click here to download the show.

Botticelli (Web Gallery of Art). Week of September 13, 2004. This week's show features the work of Florentine master Sandro Botticelli. Envision ships with a show of Botticelli's work from the Web Museum, but this new show highlights another excellent site, the Web Gallery of Art. The Web Gallery of Art specializes in European works from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800) and contains over 12,000 pieces. Click here to download the show.

Lightning photos. Week of September 6, 2004. This week's show is a large collection of lightning photographs from Australia. Coming from the Australian Severe Weather site, this show contains 500 images. The show settings are configured to go through the images very quickly, for best effect. You can certainly slow things down if you would like. Click here to download the show.

Illuminated manuscripts. Week of August 30, 2004. This week's show is a large collection of highlights from a number of illuminated manuscripts from the 11th through 17th centuries. Based on a collection at Oxford University, this show contains over 1000 images from many different manuscripts. Click here to download the show.

Olympic photos. Week of August 23, 2004. This week's show features the most recent photos from the ongoing Olympic games in Athens. Derived from Yahoo Sports, this show automatically refreshes once a day to get you the latest and greatest photos. Click here to download the show.

Athens: The Acropolis. Week of August 16, 2004. The Summer Olympics are currently taking place in Athens, Greece. This week's show features some great pictures of the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens. Click here to download the show.

Fractal Art. Week of August 9, 2004. Amazing artwork based on the mathematical concept of fractals. Fractals are objects with infinite levels of self-similarity. Click here to download the show.

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