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Yahoo <3 Flex

Well, I gotta say Yahoo is really embracing Flash and Flex – thereâ??s a really good API detailing the new AS3 Maps API for embedding Yahoo maps within a Flex or Flash interface â?? a neat little example is here.

Yahoo already has some examples, screencasts and other fun bits.

And to think, I was just visiting Yahoo to grab their latest Flash and Flex components.

** originally posted on scribemedia

iPhone Live and Screenflow

I finally got akaRemote installed and launching properly on my iPhone (copy to the iPhone via AFP, then chmod -R 777 *), and, using artificialeyes.tv on my MacBookPro as translation to Ableton Live, I threw together this little screencast:

This is also using the fantastically new ScreenFlow which allows you to have two video sources at the same time: youâ??re desktop AND your iSight as input. ScreenFlow also keeps each video source seperate so you can edit it AFTER youâ??ve recorded â?? here I scaled up the iSight track, used a shadow, and added the Apple-influenced reflection on it. Guess you could say this post is a two-fer. I intend to write up a separate post about ScreenFlow, and am going to play more with akaRemote and Live. I fooled around slightly with the accelerometer sending midi control, but it was a bit iffy. I hope that soon my hippie dance will influence the music, just as the music causes me to hippie dance.

DIY: Make Your Own Open Source Video Mixer

Thereâ??s a number of programming languages that allow you to manipulate video – high end applications like Max/MSP/Jitter, or open source languages like Processing are common examples of these languages. Lately thereâ??s been a bit of a new kid on the scene called PureData – or Pd – which seems to be Maxâ??s open source younger brother, as itâ??s created by the same father.

Beau, aka DJCypod created a great video tutorial on building a simple 2-way mixer in Pd, which you can see here:

Found via CreateDigitalMotion.

** originally posted at scribemedia

The Perfect Girl

It seems thereâ??s something new happening in motion graphics classes – the idea of â??intonation exercisesâ??; thatâ??s where, using only text/typography and a spoken audio track, the video artist will try to visually express the emotion/thought/intonation behind the dialog.

This is a great example created by Brian Cane to Vince Vaughnâ??s monologue of â??The Perfect Girlâ?? in Wedding Crashers:

Thereâ??s other examples at Motionographer.

** originally posted at scribemedia

Federal Reserve Building

The Federal Reserve of New York
Using a number of Crestron control systems, programmed a number of training rooms, a large dinging hall, and a conference room with controlled devices (ie dvd, vcr, projectors, screens, lighting, wireless microphones, Gentner teleconferencing system). Designed the user interfaces for each.