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Hello! I'm a retired software developer usually based in Bristol, UK.
I enjoy travelling, hiking, photography, fine real ale and creating the occasional website - some of which are illustrated below.
These sites haven't been updated for a while, except the Images one, which gets updates every year or so.
These sites are best viewed on a large screen (not a mobile). A tablet should work. A 32 inch (or above) 4K monitor and mouse are best. A fast connection is required and (as per most websites) javascript and cookies must be enabled in your browser.
davegott.com/films
This website figures out the best ever films by Genre, Actor, Director and Year. It also decides the best films currently showing in the UK by town / city (for up to 600 towns) and the best Actors and Directors for every decade since 1915, and of all time. Each category offers List, Poster and Detail views.
Examples:
Best 500 Action Films
Best Films now showing in London
Best Alfred Hitchcock Films
Best Films of 2018
Best Actors by decade
Best Directors by decade
Best Clint Eastwood (Actor) Films - Detail View
Images
Some of my travel photos eg. Nepal, Alps, South America, Bristol etc.
davegott.com/yourlife
The Story of Your Life from Pre-Conception to Death - key events from history, technology, sport, film and music juxtaposed on Your Personal Timeline, and your Lifeometer (according to the Office of National Statistics, based on your DOB and gender). Click an Album or Film image for details in context (and to listen to the album if you have a Spotify account).
Example:
davegott.com/yourlife/index.html?dob=1968-01-01
davegott.com/music
Features 1200 artists and 22000 albums chosen by a wide range of critics as amongst the best ever. Click on an album or playlist to listen via Spotify (if you have a Spotify account). Includes Artist's Bio, album covers, reviews and links, and links to related artists within the website.
Examples: Uncut Magazine: Best 75 Albums of 2018 David Bowie
Image Transitions Slideshow
SlideShow Aspect 16:9
SlideShow Aspect 3:2
Some of my photos using image transitions from WOW Slider. Takes a few seconds to get going properly.
davegott.com/nobel-prize-winners
View Images and Biographies of all Nobel Prize Winners by Category, Year, Country or Gender.
Remote Control Bristol Harbour Camera
This project involved mounting a full frame digital SLR on my bathroom window sill, 2 storeys up, with a view along Bristol Harbour to the M-shed Museum and Prince Street Bridge. The camera could be triggered remotely via email, manually from a local computer or automatically driven by a timetable linked to sunrise times. Click the above link for a slide show from some of the resulting images.
Beautiful Interactive Graphs Website
This was amazing. Far better than sliced bread. But Java support has been dropped by all browsers now so all you can do is
gaze forlornly at the static images below.
This was a project to try the Java language and to animate some of the beautiful graphs in a
fabulous book by Jean-Paul Delahaye, Professeur, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille :
"Geometric and Artistic Graphics - Design Generation with Microcomputers", MacMillan 1986.
For this I converted the original Basic programs to Java and added colour, detail, rotation, animation and an interactive website.
Image Viewer
I've written this (for my own use) to overcome some of the limitations of common image viewers. It automatically displays landscape and portrait photos separately so that the full screen area is used, and there are no limits on thumbnail image size. No need to sell your Adobe shares though!
Copyright and image use
All images on these websites are copyright Dave Gott. They may be downloaded for personal non-profit use or for promoting Bristol - if so please credit the source : "davegott.com".