Archive for October, 2006

Clips from some of Eastern Europe’s greatest masters, Alexander Ptushko, Phil Tippet, Kim Blanchette, and more. Thanks for the tip, Bill!

http://www.darkstrider.net/gallery2a.html

Man, I frickin’ LOVE the internet. I thought critical parts of my childhood where lost forever. Not so!

http://www.retrojunk.com/

They even have long-lost faves, M-M-M-M.A.S.K., Mighty Orbots (visually stunning), the hillbilly-riffic Moog stylings of the Land of the Lost, the wicked strat-noodling git solos in Thundercats, and Tranzoooooor-Z!

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

Lovely toy… I just wasted an hour and I don’t want to stop.

Touch screens are kinda cool, but you’ve probably never thought about one drawback most of them share: the “mouse” mentality. Most of those devices are just glorified mouse pointers. That means you can only “click” or “hover” on one tiny part of the screen at anytime.

That all changes when you go all multi-touch interaction like these dudes (and dudettes?) from NYU.

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You would think that Flash has a way of communicating with it’s seemingly partner in crime, Dreamweaver when you want to create an html shell to showcase all your flash video. But, after many a trial and error Flash is involved in this less that any of us could have imagined. In order to post a flash file in an HTML skin all you need is an .flv file, which can be created with a Flash Video Encoder, and is made by encoding your .avi file.
Once you have this, all the work is now done in Dreamweaver.

Under the Insert dropdown there is a media option… select flash video, point the url option to the .flv file and follow the rest of the instructions. Dreamweaver ends up creating all the flash files needed for this skin, as well as a play, pause and volume option, and generates all the code so that you are able to just plop it in wherever you need it.
So there it is, as designers we tend to over think things… sometimes the best answers are usually the easiest solution.