Notes From the Lab

Olap data in Flex 3

Interesting video showing how multidimensional data can be compared using the new olap classes in Flex 3; the write up can be found here.  http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/videos/olap/   

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Perfect Girl

It seems there’s something new happening in motion graphics classes – the idea of ‘intonation exercise’; that’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 Vaughn’s monologue of The Perfect […]