yasse.org

November 11, 2003 9:39 AM

yasse is a nice little bi-monthly arty web magazine with some beautiful photography and intersting articles. enjoy.
posted by zeoslap (8 comments total)

minor disclaimer, i found this site as they use us to serve textads but other than that have no affilliation with them.
posted by zeoslap at 9:41 AM on November 11, 2003

Nice. The "Colors of San Diego" photos are luscious, and I love the "Unintentional Art" tables.
posted by taz at 1:38 PM on November 11, 2003

So, is Peter Sandback’s work a profound expression of minimalism? “It’s really just a nice smooth place to set down your coffee cup,” says Sandback. Bingo.

Heh. nice post zeoslap.
posted by eddydamascene at 1:46 PM on November 11, 2003

It's pretty, and I got a kick out of a couple of the stories, but the book-like, fixed-size layout is pretty silly on the web.
posted by majick at 8:28 PM on November 11, 2003

You know what, though, majick? My eye was relieved to see those pages. I think the book-like layout worked in this context, and I'm just really tired of seeing so many sites that look so much alike. (Obviously, just my personal opinion.)
posted by taz at 10:23 PM on November 11, 2003

The book format grew on me this time around, I like that it has a distinct style all of it's own. The guys who run the site clearly put a lot of effort into each issue. Glad you liked it.
posted by zeoslap at 2:07 AM on November 12, 2003

I think the point of the web, at least my NCSA grey-background vision of it, is to allow the user agent, rather than the content author to make those decisions -- if you prefer a book-like presentation, you use a user agent that breaks the data up into pieces for you to look at. I would not be surprised to find out that one of the zillions of failed browsers in the evolt archive does something like that. I still like the site, and it's going to be a regular read for me now, but it's in spite of the really seriously minor sense of inappropriateness to the layout (and the poor usability of having to move away from the end of page's flow, back to the top of the screen, to "flip" the page) rather than because of it.
posted by majick at 8:17 PM on November 12, 2003

majick, I'm sure you are right about everything. But I still like it, because I'm often bored with what is web-standards-proper and because sometimes design that can only be achieved when the content author makes the decisions is really nice to look at. Maybe I'm not supposed to like it, but I can live with that.
posted by taz at 9:56 PM on November 12, 2003