If you’re familiar with the fab Nodebox, a Python based app for creating 2D graphics, then you may have come across the really impressive colour library. It allows you to do wonderful things with colour such as finding complementary colours to a base colour and even finding colours that go with keywords such as […]
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Last Tuesday 19th Feb I had the pleasure of attending the launch party for Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA where Cinema Redux is one of the 200 featured exhibits in this amazing new exhibition.
I thought there may be a few hundred people at the launch night - turned out there was more […]
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This site has always had a very selfish aim in that it’s focused on being a place where I can publish my latest experiments, code and projects. It’s never been a place where I post links that often to other stuff or even thoughts about things I’ve seen or bumped into.
So, I’ve been looking […]
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I just couldn’t leave it alone, but those pesky typographic creatures made from the titles of the posts on this site are back having been completely rewritten in ActionScript 3!
Each creature is made up from the letters from the title of each post, and the speed is dependant on their age - younger = […]
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“If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel.” — Will Kommen
On February 8th I’ll be speaking at The Lighthouse in Glasgow for Urban Learning Space. This will be my first trip to Glasgow so I’m looking forward to seeing the city.
Then on February 19th it’s off to my all-time favorite city, […]
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I was looking through some old files the other day (like you do at the end of a year) and came across this old typography experiment done in Processing.
If you have a copy of my book, Analog In, Digital Out, you would have seen some of the stills from this sequence. It uses the […]
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One of the things I’m always keen to explore are systems for dynamic layout of content - whether that be the positioning of photographs, type or sections of an interface.
I’ve played around with Treemap algorithms, which can look really great and can cope with lots of objects that always fit inside a predefined space. […]
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With the latest version of this site I’ve tried to look at representing blog activity by using the number of comments to “agitate” as it were the pixels in the thumbnail for a blog post.
So if there’s no comments the image just stays still. If there’s a few comments the image starts to dance […]
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I was clearing a few files from my harddrive the other day and came across some old sound visualisation stuff that I built a while back in Processing.
So I whacked them up to Vimeo so you can take a look. These all use the same core algorithm but with slight iterations or different visual […]
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I waited almost a week. But my hatred of my old phone was so great that getting an iPhone was the sensible thing to do.
And yes I love it. The touch screen interface makes any other mode of input seem so antiquated and the abililty to browse the actual web no matter where […]
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Over the last seven years or so I’ve been lucky enough to speak at some great design conferences, including Flashforward 2000 in New York featuring a live performance by Run DMC! But I have to say having just come back from Brighton, this year’s Flash on the Beach was without question the best conference […]
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As I’ve been exploring the wonderful Flash CS3 (Flash 9 to you and me) I’ve had to spend quite a bit of time scratching my head finding the new ways to do things that I always took for granted.
Where’s loadMovie gone? What do you mean there’s no getURL - I loved that method […]
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magneticNorth are looking for a super talented Flash Actionscripter available for a pretty much immediate start, working on lovely stuff in a lovely environment in Manchester, UK.
We’re looking for someone who loves nothing better than coding in as2 and as3 and relishes the opportunity to do things that some people might say are impossible. […]
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Ryan Carson, he of Future Of Web Apps fame, not to mention Dropsend, BD4D et al will be in Manchester tonight, August 16th hosting an evening away from laptops as part of the FOWA roadtrips.
It’s billed as a good old fashioned knees up and a chance to meet like minded web professionals and other […]
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As regular readers will know I’ve always been fascinated with visualizing massive amounts of data, and creating new objects from many small parts, such as the Cinema Redux project.
Recently I saw a really wonderful example of the beauty of the massive made from the small when I visited decodeunicode.org. Now a site that catalogs […]
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In September 2004 I wrote about how I was using a 1960s B&O stereo (bought from Ebay) with my iPod and then eventually an Airtunes as a coming together of old and new technologies.
I loved this setup. I had a beautiful (through my eyes at least) Beomaster 1000 amplifier, with all it’s wood. touchy […]
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I’ve just updated the site I put together as a tribute to some of my dad’s work as a photographer over at JohnDawesPictures.com.
Well when I say update what I really mean is I’ve spent a bit more time on the photo viewing application I’ve built to display his photos. The “Lightbox” engine is now […]
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Cinema Redux, my project that attempts to distill whole movies into a single image, will by featured as part of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in February 2008.
Design and the Elastic Mind “focuses on designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes which […]
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My publishers, New Riders, are putting on a great little web design conference called “Voices That Matter” happening in San Francisco from October 22nd till October 25th 2007.
Along side the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Andy Clarke, Jeremy Keith and Steve Krug, to name just a few, I’ll be doing a little session about […]
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Some of you may recall as I’ve been developing this site, I’ve been using a great little application called MAMP. It essentially allows you to run a local copy of a website with PHP and MYSQL functionality with single click ease. There’s nothing to install, no terminal hocus pocus or anything like that. Just […]
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I’ve recently been generating some artwork for use specifically as Moo Mini Cards using various pieces of software including Processing and Nodebox.
Fl0w3rs is a series of thirteen images create in Nodebox which you are free to use as you see fit (anything non-commercial) - either as Moo cards or prints for your wall or […]
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OK. So maybe I’ve become addicted to constantly screwing about with Wordpress themes. Maybe I need help. But this version I’m really happy with.
First off I’ve gone with using a large Flash background with various videos that get randomly chosen. Then I’ve overlaid the HTML over the top. If you want to do the […]
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Occasionally I like to mention a few things that have caught my eye so to speak, be that in a digital sense or actual physical real world. So here’s some stuff that you may find of interest
Graphic Define
Daniel Schutzsmith has published Issue 2 of Graphic Define Magazine, an online magazine focusing on the business […]
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The biggest influence on all my work is without a doubt my dad. He showed me that things like composition are an innate talent, something which I still believe to this day.
My dad, John Dawes, who worked as a professional newspaper photographer all his life had that innate ability in bucket loads. For a […]
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I’ve had a little application (and I use the term in a very lose way) sitting on my hard drive that I thought I might as well unleash as someone might find it useful.
It came about because I was looking at making some new prints for our newly decorated living room. What I wanted […]
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So the other night there we where playing the incredible Nintendo Wii Sports, when my sister-in-law did a beautiful cross court back-hand - smashing into the Philips Cineos TV in the process - guess that’s why they don’t have LCD TV’s on court at Wimbledon.
The TV survived - there was a scratch on […]
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The day following Hillman Curtis’ lecture for D&AD in Manchester, myself and Hillman will be speaking at Adobe Live in London on June 6th. I’ll be talking about how we at mN approach the idea of interactive design, as well as maybe giving the odd book away!
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Another week another iteration! One of the things I love about having this site entirely powered by Wordpress is how I can change the look of the site with the flick of a switch using the themes feature. So with this version I wanted to have a homepage that allowed me to start to […]
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As part of Coudal Partner’s fabulous Swap Meat feature, myself and Jim Coudal have hooked up to create a super special, limited edition Cinema Redux print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001. These are very high quality 16″ x 20″ Lambda continuous tone prints and a must have for any discerning Kubrick geek.
Check out the […]
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As I write this I’m sat at the airport waiting for my flight to Toronto for FITC. It’s been a few years since I’ve spoken at this conference so I’m looking forward to seeing howing things have changed (I’ve heard good things), catching up with some old friends, and meeting new ones.
My schedule is […]
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As part of D&AD’s series of events in the Northwest Hillman Curtis will be doing a President’s Lecture in Manchester at the Print Works on June 5th. Get your tickets now as this event is sure to sell out. This is a great opportunity to see Hillman speak in the UK, with the bonus […]
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So it’s a bit of a radical change, but I thought it’s spring - time of renewal and all that. And anyway the last design was a few years old, and I was bored with it. Plus some parts of the site were becoming a pain to maintain so I took the plunge and […]
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I thought a more interesting way to say hello, rather than fill in a boring form, was to send me (and the world) a picture via your webcam. Could be a picture of you, or a message of some kind, or a picture of your location or whatever. So use the little webcam capturing […]
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Scattr is a simple Flickr viewing gadget that you can embed into your site quickly and easily without any knowledge of Flash, actionscript code or any other mumbo jumbo. Just edit a simple text file, upload and you’re done. Use it for your own photos, a community website, conferences, gigs, a wedding album, birthdays […]
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I’ve been very kindly asked to speak at Future Of Web Design, a Carson Systems event happening in London April 17-18 2007.
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Like many designers and programmers the process of iteration is an important part of the development of any idea and the execution of that idea. Below is a small example of the process that I always try to employ - start small with something simple then iterate the idea and see where it takes me.
In […]
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Slimdevices’s Squeezebox is a fabulous piece of kit that streams your music collection to your stereo system over your wireless (or wired) network. You can browse your entire music collection using the supplied remote and a very intuitive text based interface. But what about navigating the Squeezebox using album covers, so you can choose music […]
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As I recently mentioned I’ve been working on a little project to create a visual album browser for my Squeezebox using the Chumby (thanks to Shawn at FITC). So after getting back from SXSW I managed to get the first prototype up and running.
See it in action and read more details of the why […]
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I’m really excited to be attending and speaking at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, where myself and Jim Coudal will be doing a session on Sunday morning called “How to make your short attention span pay dividends”. Don’t expect any kind of fancy slick slides - we’re going back to the […]
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Yesterday I was doing a little bit of research on the director Mike Figgis and chanced upon a lovely series of films on You Tube centered around the fabulous Moleskine notebooks, one of which features Mike Figgis’ notes. I just the love the seemingly personal nature of the films and the view of the hands […]
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At the time of writing this I’m sitting at gate S10 in Seattle waiting to fly home after a lightning quick two night trip to Microsoft in Redmond. The main purpose of my visit was a little talk I did at Microsoft Research, talking about mN’s approach to technology and interaction design. A personal hilight […]
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I thought it was about time that I updated this site - been almost a month without me posting anything new so here’s something you might find of interest.
Two years ago I wrote about how the digitizing of music and photos onto our hard drives was removing the visual cues from our homes of […]
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A very happy new year to everyone. 2007 is already shaping up to be a very busy year, not least on the speaking side of things; February sees me going to Seattle having been very kindly asked to speak at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, then in March it’s off to SxSW(my first time) in Austin […]
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After a great first day at the Flash on the Beach conference, which involved attending great sessions from Eric Natzke, Branden Hall and Craig Swann, eating pie and mash with my old friend Todd Purgason and ending up at the Flux party I woke up on Tuesday morning to the most horrendous gales and rain.
Which […]
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Meanwhile at mN. We’ve been hard at work on our lovely new site which will be going live pretty soon. But in the interim we’ve just put up a little trailer type thing to wet your appetite. The new site will give people a sneak peek into the process at mN (and no it […]
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Scattr, my simple Flickr viewing gadget, inspired by the original photo thing on my homepage, is now out of beta, with some cool new features for the bargain price of $9.99. One of the great new additions is an auto slideshow mode so you can have Scattr play through your images when it first loads […]
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On December 4th the UK’s first Flash conference for six years will kick off in Brighton. Flash on the Beach has an absolute stellar line-up of speakers - John Davey has done an amazing job of getting some great people to speak at an event which promises to be very special if you’re into all […]
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There’s a brand new version of Scattr, my free Flickr viewing gadget, now available for downloading. Thanks to everybody who gave me some great feedback on the first version. While I’m still to put in all the great ideas that have been mentioned, version 0.3 has some cool additions that include: user definable background image, […]
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I’m currently working on a series of “toys” that I’m calling “Not Produced For Use” which is my little response to what at times seems like the plumbers of the web taking over and telling us how things should and shouldn’t be. Essentially they will be alternate views of what’s already out there - […]
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Yesterday I went onto Lovefilm.com to update my film queue and give a rating for the film I’d just watched (See No Evil with Mia Farrow - a masterclass in suspense), only to be told that the site was having a redesign and would be back up on Sunday October 8th.
So Sunday came and I […]
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After getting back from Austin and being in the UK for 24 hours I then went to the South of France for a 2 week holiday - a kind of technology detox, where laptop, internet and TV were replaced by amazing food, uninterrupted time with my wife and an agenda of doing sod all for […]
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I’m sat in the airport in Austin waiting for my flight home to Manchester via Newark after what was a fantastic Flashforward. While I didn’t manage to catch as many sessions as I would have liked to, the best thing about these events is the social side - seeing old friends that I haven’t seen […]
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Now the new book is all done and dusted I have a bit more time to explore some of the cool new toys I’ve been wanting to play with for a while. One that I mentioned a few months ago is the fabulous NodeBox.
NodeBox is a free Mac application that allows you to explore […]
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After a very short test period with a few of my friends I’ve decided to release a free to use, customisable version of my Flickr viewing widget that’s featured on the homepage of brendandawes.com.
Scattr is a Flash swf you can put on your blog, website, myspace page or wherever and have it display the x […]
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There’s something I need your help with because it baffles me no end. This whole web 2.0 thing. I’m down with what this approach to web technologies can deliver for the web - I believe user experiences on a day to day level can and are better because of them, or because of the considered […]
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While I’m yet to actually hold it in my hands, New Riders have sent me some snaps of the actual finished book, which arrived back from the printers on Monday. I’ve whacked them up for you to see at Flickr.
Update: I now have a copy in my hands!
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In just over a week I’ll be jetting off to the Texas capital of Austin to appear at my first Flashforward in over a year. As well as being a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, meet new people and see all the crazy innovations within the world of Flash, this one is […]
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I’ve just uploaded the new version of the official site for the new book which uses a lot of video footage, some of which has been slowed down. Now normally to slow footage down you’d have to use something like Final Cut Pro, iMovie or something similar, which is kind of like using a sledge […]
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Yesterday at 18:17 I answered my mobile phone to hear the sound of a gong being banged. This wasn’t some bizarre new telesales technique, but the ritual that takes place at the Peachpit office over in California every time a new book gets sent to the printers. Analog In, Digital Out is now officially done […]
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Yesterday The Sunday Times gave away a DVD of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 film about the making of Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones. While it seems that every Sunday newspaper now has to have a free DVD with it these days, this as actually a little gem of a film to get for […]
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I’ve just made live the official home of the forthcoming book at aido.brendandawes.com It’s a super simple one page site, but gives a little abstract peek at one of the layouts. Once the book is published the site will feature resource links and the odd bit of code (not that there’s much in the […]
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Like most people we have at least 4 remotes in our house that we use as a matter of course. TV, DVD, A/V AMP, PVR. So if we wanted to watch a DVD for instance we would first have to switch input on the TV to HDMI, then switch input on the A/V then turn […]
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One of my favourite albums, and one that is regarded as a milestone in jazz is Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. I’ve been playing around for some time with various techniques to visualize sound, but beyond the transient effects offered by software like iTunes, which are nice, but for me always seem disconnected from the […]
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It’s a couple of months later than first anticipated but I’m glad to say my new book is in the last stages of production, ready for an end of August release. Have to say I’m really really happy with how it’s turned out. Part of the reason for the delay was due to that fact […]
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It’s been six years since the UK hosted a Flash conference, but come December we’ll have something to call our own in the shape of Flash on the Beach. A 3 day festival in Brighton featuring the biggest names in the industry from all over the globe, this should shape up to be one of […]
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It’s been six years since the UK hosted a Flash conference, but come December we’ll have something to call our own in the shape of Flash on the Beach. A 3 day festival in Brighton featuring the biggest names in the industry from all over the globe, this should shape up to be one of […]
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Keith Peters looks to have a very exciting project on the go called Brevity, which he describes as Processing for Flash. That sort of thing gets my attention. It’s going to be open source too so expect people to be all over this when it’s released.
Having recently bought a Nikon D50 I downloaded the public […]
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Mistakes often lead to new insights and new thinking. This project came out of a complete mistake. Whilst uploading some pictures to my server via my usual FTP software, I mistakenly had the transfer type set to TEXT. It should be set to BINARY or AUTO. When I went to view the images I […]
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Back in 1999, whilst exploring the capabilities of programming in Flash 4, I made a kind of video editor that I called Psycho Studio.
This little app allowed you to edit the shower scene from Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho and to save your efforts into a gallery. When I look at the code now, well, […]
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After rather stupidly not renewing the saulbass.net domain I was in two minds whether to bother to get the site back up. To be honest there’s actually another site that has a fantastic gallery of stills from Saul Bass’s work so I’m not sure how useful this site is anymore.
But I kept getting emails […]
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Yet another experiment with the fabulous Flickr and the Flickr API. This time it displays my latest pictures in a kind of spiral vortex pattern, but more importantly uses a blur effect to create a sense of depth of field that relates to time. The most recent pictures being more in focus than the […]
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magneticNorth are currently on the look out for a top Flash ActionScript guru. You need to be into ActionScript 2.0 in a big way, be the daddy when it comes to getting all kinds of data into Flash, have experience in making games and also have some knowledge of PHP and other such technologies that […]
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Craig Swann, inventor, designer, musician et al has just added a lovely little film to the InspireMe.tv project. The film takes you on a journey around Barcelona, where Craig now lives, showing the sort of things that inspire him.
As well as viewing the film directly on the site, you can also subscribe to the InspireMe […]
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Over the years I’ve found these little bits of PHP, hacked together from various sources, quite handy.
PHP - List files in a directory
This script will look into a directory and return a comma delimited string of all the user specified files. Can be used with Flash etc.
PHP - List files in a directory (XML […]
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Tuesday saw the first public preview of magneticNorth’s SPIN project - vinyl being used as a control device for digital media. As part of the Diffraction event at FACT, Manchester’s GKUT performed a 15 minute set using the tools we’ve been creating together as part of the FACT funded project. Wanna see? Check out […]
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So last week I was at the BBC Innovation Lab together with Paul and Adam from mN. Had a great time generating possible ideas for future BBC projects - a kind of geek camp in the Lake District! The gutter was I was also invited to Las Vegas for MIX06, but had to turn […]
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The InspireMe.tv project is now available as video podcasts - that’s vodcasts to you. Simply subscribe to feeds.feedburner.com/inspiremetv in your fave podcast software like iTunes or whatever and you’ll get the InspireMe.tv films straight to your desktop. Expect some brand new content next week from Crash Media’s Craig Swann, plus more in the coming months.
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The last week or so has been insane - but in a good way.
I was in Vienna last week for the brilliant Europrix Top Talent Festival, delivering the keynote based mostly on content from the upcoming book. It all ended in a snazzy gala awards night showcasing truly incredible interactive work from all over […]
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Version 1.2 of the DSF class library has just been uploaded. Along with a couple of bug fixes and tweaks there’s now some Flash 8 specific classes including a BlurTween class which, well, tweens a blur over time - it’s all in the name! I’ve updated the feature panel gizmo on my homepage to […]
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This is the Flash Actionscript 2 library that was first introduced at Flashforward San Francisco 2005. The current library features 17 classes that you can use in your code to do things that I’ve found handy when working on Flash projects.
Now features some Flash 8 classes such as a BlurTween class. Includes example […]
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More details of my forthcoming book have now been released. Analog In / Digital Out should be out in May and is available now for preorder from Amazon and all good bookstores.
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More experimentation with the Flickr API. This plays around with the idea of using small bars made of the average colour from a photo instead of the traditional thumbnails that you normally see.
100 photographs are loaded in from the current Flickr public photo pool and a vertical bar is then made for each photo. […]
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Inspired by the Philips Ambilight on the superb Cineos range of LCD tv’s, I’ve created yet another Flickr app, only this time the background colour changes to the average color of the current image. Also, instead of showing thumbnails, small bars are created, each coloured with their corresponding average colour value. These bars act […]
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Well I took my eye off the ball for a moment (read a few years) and suddenly saulbass.net was gone! It seems I didn’t renew the domain (no doubt the email got filtered as spam) and now the site is no more - well for the time being anyway. To be honest the site needed […]
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My old buddy Ryan Carson has just told me about his latest product called DropSend - and having used it I have to say it’s freakin awesome.
As with all great products the idea is super simple. Many firewalls / email clients prevent large attachments being received. Now with dropsend all you have to do is […]
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Just thought I’d bang up some Flash 8 stuff I’ve been playing around with that messes about with the BitmapData object. Some of my experiments with Processing have helped out now that you can get pixel level information in Flash 8. There’s a lot of scope with this stuff, and starts to get really cool […]
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Just some simple experiements with the Flash 8 BitmapData class. Feel free to download the source code, but rather than use as is, add your own twist - there’s plenty more scope for what is possible by manipulating the BitmapData thingy. Also check out some things you can do with video.
Black & White
[kml_flashembed movie=”/flash8bitmapdata/bmd_bw.swf” width=”400″ […]
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Well it’s taken 4 years but i’ve just signed the contract for my next book with New Riders, to be published in the new year. I can’t reveal too much at the moment, save to say it won’t be anything like Drag Slide Fade, nor will it be a book solely centered around Flash. Many […]
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mN recently finished a project for Manchester Metropolitan University - a virtual tour of all the campuses, filmed from a first person perspective.
We’re pretty damn proud of this one from several points of view, but mainly because we decided the video should be super large, instead of the standard 320 x 240. By putting […]
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Flash 8 v Flickr
I’ve been looking forward to playing around with the filters in the new Flash 8, but have always treated new features like this in any software with caution. As you soon learn with Photoshop, the majority of filters you never really use on a daily basis, if at all. Pretty much all […]
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As a long time fan of Alfred Hitchcock, not to mention the work of Saul Bass, one of my all time favourite films is still Vertigo. Not only is the film one of Hitchcocks greatest pieces of work, the opening titles by Saul Bass, together with John Whitney is one of my most admired pieces […]
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This is one of a number of ideas I’ve been playing around with in my attempt to make a quick cutting music video, controlled by the music itself. After Effects already has the ability to do this kind of thing, but the software I built in Max is all real-time. This kind of technique […]
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mN is looking for talent. As Creative Director I’m looking for amazing interactive designers. I’m not looking for people who think that’s just about creating crap animations in Flash. I’m not looking for people who spend their days surfing design portals and copying other work. You can all just f**k off. I want people who […]
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Universal Principles of Design - fantastic book, essential reading for all designers. A Tale of Two Sisters - Korean horror movie released on DVD, beautifully filmed and truly scary. Context Free - create beautiful images using a set of design grammars - and it’s free. LoveFilm - simply the best online DVD rental. iDive - […]
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It’s been almost a month since my last post mainly because things are just mad crazy busy at mN - but then that’s a really good thing.
One of the things we’ve been working on is a small pet project that we’ve had on the back burner since the end of last year. Well we […]
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Like a lot of people nowadays my music collection is purely digital. I have thousands of mp3s, hundreds of albums - but to any visitor to my home, I have nothing. Zip. Not a thing. In fact it�s as if I’m not even even interested in music. There is no evidence whatsoever of my music […]
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Following on from my Atari Flash Drive I decided to take the Dremel to another piece of Atari kit - this time the iconic joystick.
This is an Atari 4 port USB hub, complete with status indicator LED. It uses a cheap 4 port hub made for laptops which I bought from good old […]
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Following on from my session at the HOW Design Conference, and my talk of experiments with Play-Doh, I’ve posted up one of the Play-Doh examples I showed in my session. Special thanks to everyone who came to my session and for all the kind comments I’ve received since getting back from Chicago.
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16 (old skool) Flash source files of all the covers that were created for the Drag Slide Fade site. These are old Flash 5 files but still you might find them useful in some way!
Download DSF Cover Archive 2002-2003
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