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When I see a commercial this well executed it makes me think of how poor our state of advertising is, and how many missed opportunities have gone by. Each commercial gives us a 15-60 second window to create a piece of art that will last in someones mind. I would like to think this concept was one person who had the vision, and was able to dig through the distractions to make sure it got made correctly. Per commenters request, I have added the source code for the Morse DeCode project. Not much else to say about that! http://visualadvance.com/blog/explorations/morse-decode-with-the-arduino-board-and-flash/ We have been doing some revamping of our entrance at work (Manifest Digital). I threw together this glorified screensaver to project onto our doors. Done in Flash CS4, Actionscript 3. You can view the project online here: http://manifestdigital.com/playground/flip/
When I see a product like this, and its named Perky Jerky, I have to ask myself; which came first, the name or the concept? I have to admit many times I will come up with a phrase, be insanely tempted to buy the domain name, and then build a site around that. Then I realize sites take time to build, and I watch TV instead.
I see hundreds, if not thousands of articles each week now that I am an avid Google Reader user. After a while it becomes easy to identify each bloggers style. Lets take for example Scott Hansen of ISO50. A lot of his posts and images tend to have the same tone, even when he is blogging about other peoples work. So when I came across this post from NotCot, I instantly wondered why Hansen was styling his post like a typical NotCot post. Then I realized it wasn’t a post of his at all. It isn’t even his work. Just a Scotch tape promotion that is extremely similar to his work. Is it just me? In the spirit of open source I have added the source files for my first go at creating a video mask in flash. The source can be found at the bottom of my post: Inventing Flash Video Masks (Part 2) As my document class files get larger and larger I tend to have a hard time keeping my place. Especially when I need to jump back and forth between a couple spots. So one trick I just naturally started to evolve was to add my own “bookmarks” into my code. For example if I am working on a function called “showMessage” and I want to jump between the function and where it is being called I might do this: //#
showMessage();
// blah blah blah other code
// 1000 lines later
//#
private function newMessage():void { }
This way I can just search for the # and keep jumping back and forth. If you were really ambitious you could derive a whole system from symbols # = links ! = currently working on % = work on later Not perfect since a lot of symbols will be used by operators, but it felt like a good LifeHacker type of tip. I supposed you could always search for //! to avoid the operators. I made a few small updates to VisualAdvance.com today. I mainly just added all my 2009 work thus far. I hadn’t realized it was that long since I made an update. This includes pretty much all the work I have done since I have been at Manifest. Making this update made me realize how badly I need to restructure/redesign my site. You learn so much in a 6 month period of time. It was so hard to not just start patching holes as I was making updates, but I would much rather focus that energy into getting it done right for my next release. If anything these updates pushed me to focus on a new release sooner. My friend Wenner wanted to do another music video for someone’s birthday. I hadn’t done any video projects in a while, so I was definitely in. We only had about a week to compose the whole thing so the only set plan I had going in was to shoot on pretty much every camera I own, and make something happen with that. I trusted Wenner and his choreographer would take care of the moves, so all I had to do was capture it and make them look even better. With the help of my motion graphics friend Jay Purugganan, and my Producer girlfriend Cristina, I was able to shoot edit, and “color correct” the whole thing in about 7 hours. This gave Jay about 3-4 days to add the finishing touches to make it that much more impactful. Anyway, have a look:
I recently finished another piece for an upcoming gallery show. I am calling this one The Generative Wasp Landing. Obviously it is a followup piece to my first one, The Generative Eye. This time I decided to use a slightly different “brush” by using more of a circular glob shape, and I wanted their motion to be different than the first. I ended up using brownian motion to make the brushes move around the canvas this time. This gave it a much more organic feel than my first piece. I also had them scanning over a texture this time so that they would give the impression of real paint much more than just vector shapes. The entire application was written in Adobe Flash CS3. The final piece will be on display: Thursday, July 30, 6-9pm Here is a video of this piece being generated: And a few other shots I took while working on this final piece. The Generative Orchid 1: The Generative Orchid 2: The Generative Wasp Landing – Detail Shot: My original photo I used for this piece: |
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