I’ve been thoroughly enjoying sessions at this year’s Flash on the Beach conference. I took the liberty of converting Rob Chui’s trailer to flash for this page. Taken from Chui’s The Ronin homepage where the QT took a long time to load. Turn up the volume!
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1859295&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Flash on the Beach trailer – Rob Chui
Monday’s highlight was James Paterson who makes wonky flash animations like this cloudy land or more commercial work, a series of adverts for a sandwich company. This one is called “Button Popping contest”.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn81KrZdq0]
All spots in the Mr Sub series here.
Some older work which I liked.. Captain Q-tip boot.
Monday was also Chris Orwig, on The Art and Craft of Photographic Impact. Really inspiring.
Tuesday was Hoss Gifford on Abstract narrative. He made a cool gadget for the Edinburgh fringe festival called fringe magnets. This is as it appears, with the letters you’re given you can re-arrange the letters and send to a friend, the interesting part is that the act of arranging the letters is recorded, so the friend recieves your note and can view the way you created it.
Robert Hodgin was the final session on Tuesday (web or vimeo). He writes code in a language called Processing which creates visualisations.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=658158&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Solar (music by Goldfrapp) with lyrics from flight404 on Vimeo (HD available from that page).
This was a pre-rendered sequence but for an energy drink company Hodgin and a programmer collaborator created this amazing visualisation engine that runs real time. Do view that last link, it’ll blow you away!