Flood

We recently had a tremendous rain overnight and all three pumps in the basement failed…so we got a ‘nice’ flood downstairs.  What is insane is that the back pumps – there are two – one was on a marine backup on a car battery (in case the power went out) — the battery, though hooked…

Lost Music: Bloody Bark

Found another track — this one definitely influenced from a lot of listening to Barkmarket (hence the goofy demo title).  Once again the fabulous Phil Puleo on drums (Cop Shoot Cop, Swans), me on everything else.  This being the house in Rutherford I rented on my own, I remember running the snake from the living…

DunkDog

Dunkdog was a website that tracked and ranked basketball players in a highschool age league.   Using Wordpress, custom post types were created and linked together in order to facillitate the player and team database and rankings. Player post types utilized categories as data points such as height, weight, position and class to link to…

Nicholas Markets Foodtown

NicholasMarkets’ School Lunch Program was a way for a New Jersey super market to create a local school lunch program in the North New Jersey area. Using WordPress as the site framework, and custom coding the very popular Shopp plugin, I created a way for NicholasMarkets to service multiple schools with many teachers / grades…

Hyperion Books

In rethinking the Hyperion Books website we imagined how the website could best be explored; when you enter a book store or library you can lose hours of time as you naturally progress from subjects of interest, or seeing what other works are by a favorite author. Thinking of what constitutes a book or author…

Comcast Speed Issues…

Ok – for the past week we’ve been having TERRIBLE speed issues within the Canton CT area – especially on upload. I pay for the business speed ($188 a month for just digital tv and cable) — and over Vonage I’ve been getting a terrible delay. Skype is the same way. Right now I’m attempting…

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PV3D to Unity

No, this isn’t a little chant I’m working on — I see I’m not the only one… Carlos Ulloa – of Flash/3d/MiniCooper fame (how many people getting into Pv3d would just spend part of their day driving that thing around in his banner) — has also been playing with the sweetness that is Unity3d. Unity3d…

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Gumbo == Flash Builder

Adobe recently announced that Flex will now be known by Flash Builder; my feelings about this are mixed however.  There were many times I had to explain the differences between Flex and Flash (and, saying ‘Flash’ in that sentence I mean the capital ‘F’ Flash CS4 authoring vs the little ‘f’ flash which is the…

Neptune’s Fields: Wax

Recorded back in 1991-ish on my Fostex 1/4″ reel — the drums, mic’d with plastic Radioshack mics, and bounced down to stereo (while in the room with the drums), stereo bounce down of some bass/guitar combo, single harmoica track, 2 single guitar noodlings, and the main vox by Tom was recorded tiny and thin.. so…

Papervision 3d in Flex

Have to say it’s quite fun — sort of reminds me of the old Director3d — or at the least the stuff that Barry Swan was coding as billboards before Director added true 3d support. I’m writing a class for it for a sort of flipping card interface; I’ve seen this done before in Flash…

Scratching Augmented Reality

I caught this post over on Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music that shows another example of Augmented Reality being used in an extremely cool way.  Todd Vanderlin updates us on his little virtual dj projects and demonstrates how he’s using augmented reality for his scratching.  Now the only scratching I know would usually entail some…

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…

Marvel: Excelsior Theatre

Not only were we creating weekly Cybercomics, but we also started to make a monthly serial in the vein of the old radio shows. The Secret Adventures of Captain America were written by the likes of Ben Raab (now doing Warehouse13 on scifi), James Felder and Joe Kelly (co-creator of Ben 10) – it was…