( ._.)( ._.) - LiveJournal.comtigers and pink flowers- March 26, 2008 in my dream tigers were all over the town, chasing and attacking us. i picked up a stool and a ruler to use as a whip, like an old-school lion tamer, but the one in the house turned out to be just a little tiger kitty. i threw him out by the scruff of his neck.a few nights ago i had the most beautiful dream. three people were carrying me over their heads, with speed, in the shallow part of a lake. i was flying, arms out, through the branches of a tree with pink flowers. the people would...http://forresto.livejournal.com/166990.html flash flurry of falling franklins- March 13, 2008 Or Washingtons...I got an interesting assignment from a design agency... they wanted to have a variable flurry of falling money in the background of an ad. It's always a challenge in Flash to balance filesize and looks, and when ads are to be run on sites they almost always have strict filesize restrictions, usually 40KB. Video is out of the question, and animating by hand would take ages, so this was a job for animating with ActionScript. I thought it would be a good idea to not totally...http://forresto.livejournal.com/166566.html John Neil's food essays- March 9, 2008 I found this on the laptop that I loaned him last year. I hope you enjoy them...---Birthday Cakes One of the few things that every human born has in common is the day that they came into this world: their birthday. Most of see our birthdays as rather momentous occasions, all things considered. Scientists get all excited about the Big Bang and other such theories, but most likely even those same scientists have a little voice inside trying to tell them what all the rest of us know...http://forresto.livejournal.com/166035.html Sociograph 2.0- March 3, 2008 An idea that has been brewing for some time...http:apps.facebook.comsociographThe 1.0 version was clunky, in Java, and relied on me racking my brain to figure out how everybody I knew was connected and entering the data manually. Day after day I would add to the dataset, until I finally realized that I was becoming obsessive and I had to stop, as the job was neverending. If we were even acquainted in 2002 you are probably in...http://forresto.livejournal.com/165731.html |