I really need to redesign my personal site, it hasn’t been touched in almost 3 years. Wonder if I should forgo sleep this month and join the May 1st Reboot?
Update – In a moment of boredom/weakness during a recent project meeting, I signed up. Let’s see how creative I can be in 3 hours a day for 2 weeks.
Not been posting lately – it’s been pretty hectic at work.
My wife has a mix cd in on rotation in her car’s cd player and my daughter has become completely addicted to one of random songs on it – Butterfly by the techno/dance pop group Smile.dk. I suppose toddlers do this kind of thing – and I’m really starting to appreciate the complexity of the song. I just gets in to you, you know?
I heard the song The Audience by Matthew Herbert recently, and like the beat. Link goes to a live version.
I’ve about had it with all of the music on my iPod – it’s time to start listening to my Pandora stations again.
A user on the FlashTiger list asked how to load classes dynamically at run time – this Adobe live doc covers it nicely. I’d thought of trying something like this before but was never clear on how to do it. Anyway, linked so that I’ll remember to look at it later :)
It liiiives. According to Smashing Magazine. Fine by me – as a designer, organic dirty designs are much more fun to create than shiny rectangles with gradients. I got started in design the mid/late 90’s with a huge case of David Carson envy – designing grungy will be like coming home. So sentimental.
At least my old Typography in Decay site is tendy again. No updates needed!
I’ve been using Hyrdotik’s Queue Loader in RAMEN to manage the loading of “theme” files for the interface. I’m not taxing it too much – just 7 files.
Bulk loader looks promising also – many more features, but it’s a lot bigger.
Been busy at work lately! I’ve got a tight deadline on a big project that involves a system demo with an avatar character.
I’ve been working in XML and dynamic Flash for so long with my inFlite system (more info soon) that I have a hard time thinking in terms of time line based animation. So, I’ve forked RAMEN and am creating a version for work. I’m getting the opportunity to add a few cool features (which probably won’t mean anything since I haven’t shared much about RAMEN here): timer based animation triggers, image distortion, targeting MC’s inside of a loaded SWF, shape objects, eventmanger objects, blah blah blah.
The hardest thing with be to get it to talk to Lectora so that I can make a cohesive template.
We’re (well, Casey’s doing the work) having a boy in August!
Robbie Player is updating his blog again. I like the idea of a blog that also aggregates feeds of your activity from other social sites. Cool concept.
Robbie is a developer/designer at Sudiobanks – really great webcentric design firm here in Charlotte. They do awesome work.
Is it just me or is the NOAH Animated Avatar just creepy? Who would design anything and use an army of these little people to communicate about it to the users? You can control the size of them, but the detail that’s drawn into their outfits does not allow for them to be scaled too big.