notes from underground

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I am still alive, and slowly in the process of restoring order to my life. The room is clean, I know where [most] of my money disappeared to, and this paper is not due for another 3 hours… that’s plenty of time, right? …..

Big things this week:

-Japanese paper due in far less time than it will take to write

-Research like crazy for History 42 final… what the heck is my topic, anyway?

-Panic LR21 Project with Dan Byers…

I’d like to do a lot more work with this, add a preloaded, create some digital paintings to overlay, that kind of thing, but for now I think it’s pretty damn cool. Here’s a link to the final project, 700 x 350 pixels, macromedia .swf: (I’ll post it on its own webpage later today, but for now it’s just the raw file)

Fireworks over Fuji, Rough

OK, THERE we go, now we’re making progress! Check these babies out! (now ideally I need to add variation and make my own movie clips, but oh well ^_^)

Fireworks!! (Click on the image!)

So I’m sitting here, playing with actionscripted animation in Flash, and I finally got the first part of my code sorted out. I’m using a few open-source snippets as a base, but modifying the code for my own purposes and recreating the effects on my own, so it’s really interesting. I’ve posted the .swf of my demo file, I’m calling it Textual Popcorn for reasons that should be clear:

Textual Popcorn! (Flash Link)

I just posted the fruits of the four-hour long battle of wits between me and my machine:

Mount Fuji Flash Project Background

For electronic writing II i’m working on dynamically generated art in flash, and this will be the background. At the moment it only does anything if you click on it, but eventually those flickers will be timed to fireworks that explode in the sky

For people (none of whom, ironically, read this blog) who have asked what Electronic Writing means, I present a link to the website where my instructor, Brian Kim Stefans, explains What Is Electronic Writing?

The overarching blog that page is from, brown_ewriting, is the course blog for my class. Feel free to look around… it’s got some cool projects and links, including one I submitted to Brian about the amazing Word Disassociation music video. You may know the band who did the music as the same group that created the song The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. Then again, you might not.

Since my first project for that class is just beginning to take shape, I thought I’d post my initial project proposal here. (Warning: Adobe PDF File)

More updates later this week, but for now I have a play of a page to write and a Japanese quiz to study for.