Recursive Facebook

Having some fun messing with Facebook. I may have opened a wormhole.

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Visual Advance – It’s Alive!

It took me along enough, a lot of broken promises, and a LOT of design revisions, but I have finally gone live with the new version of Visual Advance. I am almost embarrassed to see all the old versions that …

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Pure Imagination – The Willy Wonka Song

There is something about the song ‘Pure Imagination’ that always gets my attention. It is seems like a perfect mix of genius, creativity, and insanity.

This version by Jose Battaglio for an Acciona commercial is one of my favorites to …

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Feeding Ignorance: If Mario Was Designed in 2010

It seems as if the gaming industry suffers from the same over-compensation issues that the design world does. Game Designer Zack Hiwiller created this series of Super Mario Bros. images depicting what it might look like if it was created by todays standards; and …

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Sussex Safer Roads Commercial; A Piece of Art

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 …

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Morse DeCode: Update

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/

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Manifest Entrance Revamping

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://archive.visualadvance.com/lab/manifestflip/

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Perky Jerky: Clever Name, or Clever Concept?

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, …

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Scotch Tape Contest, by…ISO50?

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 …

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AS3 Video Masks Source Added

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)

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