Michael Jackson Tribute Site

Michael Jackson tribute...

over at LittleMissRobot.com

Michael Jackson will outlive Prince!

Little Miss Robot

http://www.littlemissrobot.com

...stay tuned...

Flash and the HoloCube

I've been running some preliminary tests with my work 'We Are The World' running in a device called the Holocube. 

The Holocube is a fully integrated 3D projection platform. 

It is originally designed to display product presentations but you can project anything in it really.

I am using the FlashPlayer 10 3D capabilities to extrude the displayed text. 

And just a quick word of advice. 

If you want to mirror (the Holocube needs a mirrored image) a textfield in Flash do it like this:

var metrics : TextLineMetrics = _textfield.getLineMetrics(0);

_textfield.text = "Hello World";

_textfield.scaleY = -1;

_textfield.y = _textfield.textHeight + metrics.ascent + metrics.descent;

The Holocube and some of my other work will be showing at my exhibition at the Zebrastraat Art Center in Gent, Belgium. 

Opening next Thursday 07/05 @ 8:00 PM. 

You are now invited!

Muchas mega thanks to Jan and his crew at Holocube for the support!

Adobe's Alchemy and Mac OSX Tiger: not working?

I've been trying to compile the simple StringEcho example that comes with the Alchemy SDK, but without success.
Read more/dowload about Alchemy here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/

Now I am working on OSX Tiger and I am pretty sure all of my settings are correct when it comes to following along the step by step tutorial at Adobe's website.
The strange thing is that I don't get any compile errors and the compiler returns an object file, but no swc... The log files do not show any sign of inconsitency...

I have had some help from people over at the Adobe forums, but the conclusion we come to at this time is that it's just better to switch to Leopard. And indeed no problems with Leopard.
Follow the conversation here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1926352

Conclusion so far: Do not try Alchemy on Tiger, use Leopard.

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Princess Helena reminds me of me, all the time...

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Belgian Adoube User Group Meeting: Inspiring evening

Yesterday evening the Belgian Adobe User Group meeting was great!

It was good to see some of the guys again. I had a few beers and enjoyed the great line up.

Gijs from Webwave also having a few beers... 

Cheers Gijs!

This time not so much about the tools or coding itself but much more inspiring sessions. More of that in the future if you ask me.

1. Volstok/Telefunken

http://www.volstok.com/

These guys are creating some fine pieces of video and animation. 

Already famous for their 120 episodes counting series called: De monsters. 

Monsters: 013 meisje wip from Volstok Telefunken on Vimeo.

They presented us with some very good insights about their production process. 

In their flow they animate one 30 second spot in 3 days using After Effects. (they are at episode 120..sic)

It goes something like this:

1. Live shooting with an actor

2. Character is drawn in Illustrator with the different body parts seperated

3. Shadows on the character with Photoshop

4. Animation in After Effects (masssive use of the Puppet tool and expressions)

2. Reginald Van De Velde

http://www.suspiciousminds.com/

Reginald practices the art of Urban Exploration. 

Basically this is entering abandoned buildings and taking photographs. 

All of this is done with a set of rules and respect for the sites explored. 

When it all comes together, the story behind the location, the right atmosphere, the light and a good photographer some amazing photographs, whom truly form an heritage for those to come, come out of this.

Check out Reginald his website and see for yourself...

3. Mike Van Cleven

http://www.mikevancleven.com/

This photographer based in Belgium is mostly known for his fashion and editorial photo-shoots. 

Among showing numerous of his pictures and how he did it, he also talked about where he came from creativly and where he wants to go. 

For me that was one of the most important topics in his talk.

Mike started a project called the collaborative. This is an effort to bring creative people in various fields together. The first project kicked off with is a calendar where Mike provided only pictures of naked girls on a white background. 

Then the photographs are handed over to digital artists to do post production without any creative rules except that breasts and the pubic region should be covered.

This results in some very inspiring result. Check it out on the collaborative.

It was a great evening and very inspiring. 

Thanks to the AUG crew!