August 22, 2008 at 10:41 am · Filed under Life
I’m sitting on Jones st. having morning coffee. It’s the final day of the conference and I’m sorry to say it’s been a fairly sizable disappointment. Most of the speeches, while well spoken and inspirational, have lacked substance. There’s been no meat and potatoes. Nobody has dove in to their process. It’s been way too much preaching about ‘passion’ and cliche terms like ‘do what you like and money will follow’. While that’s certainly true, it’s not something we don’t know, nor something we need repeated six times a day here to ‘get’. We came to be enlightened, something I’m definitely not feeling here. Passion is a great mantra for a conference but you’re preaching to the choir. Most people attending have taught themselves a very complex tool and a completely new language all without schooling. I’d say we’ve got the passion thing down, yea? Now show me some technique, source, demos, MEAT!
Not much time to write more right now, but one final word about the conference as a whole…
This is one of the foremost technologically advanced gathering of nerds any conference can boast, right? Then why the motherhell don’t we have stable wifi here? Beyond embarasssing, Adobe. Why isn’t there one interactive installation? Why is there no Flash on display anywhere? And why… oh why… have I seen 23 card tricks? I mean, it’s slight of hand folks, the guy is essentially decent at hiding things behind his knuckles. Bah.
August 17, 2008 at 12:12 pm · Filed under Life
I’m off to Flash Forward this week. It should be a great party in a cool city with some uber nerds. Just about all I need, besides my wife and pooch. Looking forward to seeing the Masonic Temple it’s being held in, and the new format chosen by Adobe. This will officially be my fourth Flash Forward, and I’m relieved that I haven’t been chosen to speak this year. Last year was a tad awkward to be told by your boss that you’re going to be a speaker. Um yea thanks, I thought that would be something I’d chose to do not unknowingly penned in for. Pretty standard operating procedure at Arnold.
I’m also fired up that Steve and I will be driving the 10 hours or so down to San Fran from Portland, stopping half way to camp in Redwoods National Park.
Thanks to North for sending us.
So, if you’re headed to San Fran this week let me know. It’d be good to meet up with some cool peeps.
August 16, 2008 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Drawing, Lab, Life, Webcam Motion Detection
The concept is to allow human interaction to affect physical space, freeing oneself from all traditional user interface. The application works by constantly monitoring a webcam, taking snapshots of each frame. Those frames are then constantly drawn to a bitmap data object. Then each pixel in each frame is monitored by comparing the pixels in the current frame to the pixels in the previous one. The difference in brightness within each section determines whether or not motion had occurred in this area of the screen. If motion is detected the coordinates of a rectangular grid around said motion is recorded and the drawing begins. To slow down the drawing I draw at the x and y coordinates of the white ball which is tweened with easing rather than drawing directly where there are points of motion.
Thanks to steve for filming and editing this video, asluv for the laser drawing class and NORTH for being forward thinking enough to encourage digital experimentation.
You can try the experiment small scale and online here: AS3 webcam drawing
August 14, 2008 at 9:19 pm · Filed under Flash Flickr Widget, Flickr Api, Lab
Developed and designed Flash Flickr widget [I hate the word widget] slideshow thingy that pulls a users latest flickrstream photos using the Flickr API.
Yea, it’s the same thing as over there on the right… but it needed its own post!
If you want one for your blog leave a comment below. I plan to automate that, but for now I’ll take requests.
August 12, 2008 at 3:50 pm · Filed under Life
Man on LSD et al. smashes window with his wrists and back, threatens to jump from a paltry stoop, exposes himself and sings about god, love and reno 911.
What a city.
PDX. Belmont and 20th. 7pm
August 7, 2008 at 1:05 am · Filed under Life
When there’s nothing inside to make you go out.
We roll in the sheets, salaciously shout.
Times obsolete when love is around.
We couldn’t care less about the level of sound.
The neighbors shout back annoyed with our life.
The old man downstairs berating his wife.
It’s Saturday morn our clothes on the floor.
The air rushes in explaining some more.
About a world we’ve forgotten today.
We’re dying tomorrow but that’s so far away.
Lets just lay here exhaling the breeze.
Listen to wind that’s teasing the trees.
Cuz there’s nothing outside that’s better than in.
Let’s stay in our bed enjoying our sins.
August 7, 2008 at 1:05 am · Filed under Life
Dusk park.
Alone with lights.
Candy pervades these summertime nights.
Peopleless park.
Their thrills lay behind.
Grasping at straws that lay on the ground.
Sitting alone silhouetting in time.
Dogs barking from standing in line.
The park is all closed it’s time to go home.
Your soul lags behind it stays here to roam.
Dusk park.
Where children’s eyes gaze.
Freaks in the corner dismembering days.
Carni folks danced and read you your rights.
Coddled in blankets prohibiting flight.
Parents just left you.
You ran from their car.
The gates opened up revealing the tar.
You spent all your quarters at Eddies arcade.
And trashed the prize skeet ball had paid.
There’s nothing left here but creeping grey shadows.
Writhing around you screaming you tattled.
On some little boy who cut through the turnstile.
His hands cotton candied he winked with denial.
Dusk park.
Where everyone wins.
Cashing on in our meaningless sins.
Turning hesitation to wild abandon.
Sipping on liquor we selected at random.
Dusk park.
We all hate to leave you.
Take me for good.
And use us as we do.
August 7, 2008 at 1:04 am · Filed under Life
sunday sun in lovers sway
light to shine thoughts to lay
hair adrift in natures play
a telekinetically perfect day
simple brown in complex blue
lovers light extended hue
we’ll walk for hours
chasing light
searching for the endless night
August 7, 2008 at 1:03 am · Filed under Life
You keep thinking the world is your stage.
Gazing upon it, counting your age.
Making assumptions of time and its wage.
Filling in gaps with mathematical rage.
Seeing at once your synapses smoke.
Ending the reign of fanatical hope.
Sliding with quick the miracle slope.
Metaphorically question the end of your rope.
Counting in time syncopationless loss.
Feeding the frenzy expensiveless cost.
Jumping through hoops that square off your ends.
Rising like hope crushed by the bends.
You keep thinking the world is your stage.
Curtains will close, you’re back in your cage.
August 7, 2008 at 1:03 am · Filed under Life
In lushLand where bastards feed
Weeds grow on beds of greed
Shadows creep from sunlight’s bleed
Sucking silt through straws of reed
Defiant voice amidst the shrug
Little dame the shutterbug
Snapping time to it’s knees
A love affair with sowing seeds
She shifts along the bending trail
Crickets laud and stand to hail
Ignoring all she spreads her wings
Takes to flight lushLand sings
A single spark of calming rage
Content to sit and watch her age
Sinking back into the deep
It’s all time code, my little sheep
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