IAAH I AM ALWAYS HUNGRY is the multi-disciplinary design studio of Nessim Higson. He has some amazing work focusing on events surrounding Hurricane Katrina and how it affected the New Orleans area. The work is great on it’s own, but is truly amplified by the beautiful flash interface developed by Ourvice.
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Eric Smith of IDRAWALLDAY has created a series of posters based on quotes that have served as a support for him during his recent fight against cancer. I just picked up all three and wish him the best.
In his own words: I was recently diagnosed with cancer and have begun down the treatment road. I have learned to saturate each moment in front of me with all of my energy, as well as many other tremendous lessons. I decided to create a poster series with some quotes that have driven close to my spirit throughout this whole ordeal. Proceeds from the sale of these posters will be donated towards the Live Strong Foundation.
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My riding spot in Cambridge, MA is right in the middle of Central Square, between Harvard and the Charles River. One side is lined entirely with a chain-link fence, while the other is cut by a street that runs all the way to Kendall Square. Behind the fence runs a series of train tracks that presumably service MIT and what used to be a thriving area of commerce. Though unfrequented by trains, the tracks have become home to detritus of the wandering masses.
Peep the rest of the series starting here.
check it.I just added this WordPress plugin to the site. It redirects the RSS feed generated by WordPress to my Feedburner account. So, now I know if anyone is following the RSS feed and what user agents/RSS readers etc… they are using. Not bad!
edit: If you saw a “Test” post in the feed, it was just me not realizing I could hard refresh Mac Mail to see this in action. Oops.
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Eric Natzke is a visual wizard. Seeing his work at FITC was awe inspiring - it is seriously on another level. Check out his flickr set for proof or follow his wizardry on his blog, Jot. Keep in mind, his work is all dynamically done using Flash.
check it.My pursuit of ActionScript 3.0/OOP mastery has recently led me to these links.
Learning Actionscript 3 - Companion site for the amazing book of the same title. I recently picked this book up and can’t recommend it enough. If the O’Reilly books are a bit much for you right off the bat, this should be right up your alley.
goToAndLearn - Introduction to OOP - Learn the basics of doing object-oriented programming in ActionScript 2.
While I know this is for ActionScript 2.0, it is super helpful in that it clearly describes the use of classes and introduces some of the main principles of OOP.
Adobe Developer Center - Object-oriented programming with ActionScript 3.0 - Concise and extremely well written article discussing: What are classes?, Basic OOP concepts: Inheritance vs. composition, Encapsulation, & Polymorphism. Includes some extremely well commented source files - a MUST for anyone wetting their tip with ActionScript 3.0.
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It was 1999 when I first got really excited about design for the web and designs place on the web. It was a strange time technically, since web-standards were just emerging and many designers were just getting comfortable with merging their offline work with the new media available on the web. I spent what seemed like hours just clicking and drawing, finding inspiration around every corner. At the time, I was immediately drawn to the type of work people like Michael Cina, Michael Young, Jemma Gura (now Hosteller), & James Patterson because they were successfully creating work that so clearly had a unique voice while at the same time creating a home for it.
Today, Michael Young and Mike Cina work collectively as WWFT weworkforthem and also run the online design boutique YWFT youworkfothem. The still above is from Finding Eutaw and North, an experimental DVD combining produced by them available YWFT.
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The Webby Awards have partnered with Adobe to bring you Webby-In-Motion.
According to the site: Webby-in-Motion is a special collaborative contest presented by Adobe and The Webby Awards where we ask motion designers, illustrators, animators and other talented creative minds to design a 20-second category introduction animation/video for The Webby Awards Gala in NYC on June 10, 2008.
The Grand Prize includes: VIP trip for two to the star-studded Webby Awards in New York City, $10,000 cash, Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection, Prize package from Stash, including an interview on Feed.
I’m going to be working on a submission, if you are interested in collaborating, let me know in the comments
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Ghostly International Just teamed up with Adult Swim to present GhostlySwim. It’s a fantastic album collecting the various artists on the Ghostly label. Its a free download, with a great live version of Cascade, by Tycho.
In the words of Ghostly themselves, Ghostly Swim is : “A genre-busting 19-song collection, stretching the entire Ghostly International galaxy, Ghostly Swim explores the Avant-Pop style that the Ann Arbor/New York City label has been been championing for the past 9 years.”
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I just got back from FITC Toronto and it was an amazing experience. I haven’t felt this creatively/technically motivated in a long time. While I was there I had the opportunity to see Tycho play live at the The Drake Hotel, which coincidentally was where I was staying. I’ll post on The Drake a bit later, since it really deserves its own post.
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