Earlier tonight, I was feeling pretty tired and down. No real reason. I’m attributing it to Winter, and the general crappiness of the skies lately. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I haven’t been sleeping too much lately. The pattern seems to be: tired in the late afternoon/early evening, full awake by 11:30 PM. On the trainride home, I…
Perhaps they’re talismans. Bicycles and animals seem to go together.
Standing at the Blue Line stop, waiting for the train this morning, I was looking out across Damen. Theer was a steady snow going, and a few inches had collected along the tops of the railing. I looked over, and watched a guy gather some snow between his gloves and pack a snowball. For some reason, this made me incredibly…
This has become something I’ve been thinking more and more about, lately. It’s past midnight, and I’m typing away in this journal of a sort. I’m tired, but still up. Part of me feels like cracking a beer and continuing to type; part of me feels like just calling it a night. I’m acutely aware of the fact that I…
On the way to work, I happened across this bit of snow, tucked into the corner of a building. I kept on walking and about 30 feet later, turned around and pulled out the camera. For some reason, I found this image particularly captivating. It made me think about flexibility, and about how sometimes the best solution is to adjust…
Download File: tracer.flaDownload File: drawer.fla The way I’ve got things set up – I’m working with two .fla files. One to do the tracing (tracer.fla) and one that does the drawing/display (drawer.fla). I’m using the Output Window to get all my information for me, so you’ll need to start off by opening tracer.fla in Flash. Controls: 1) Space bar activates/deactivates…
I’m throwing the .fla files up on here, in case anyone decides that want to give this a go. I’ve tried to comment as best as I could, throughout most everything. See below for more of a step-by-step on how I made things. Please, I’d love to hear how this can be improved. In my first version, I was using…
Man, it’s been a long while since I’ve been bitten by the experiment bug. And actually, it’s been a long while since I’ve really worked with Flash/Actionscript. So this weekend felt pretty darn good. :) So here’s what I’ve got: my attempt at type illustration. A few things to mention, at the start here. First, I was really taken by…
I had been talking about going to see the parade in Chicago’s Chinatown, but today proved to be too cold. I was at the gas station this morning, and after a few moments exposed to the elements, I knew there was no way I could take very many pics. It’s a shame really, since I had a blast when I…
I had agreed to go to a movie night with Justin and Emma and some of Emma’s friends, but decided to stay in tonight. I had high plans of writing some, but got distracted by that whole type illustration thing, and spent all evening trying to suss that out. Ehh. I was going to go into the technical details, but…
Justin borrowed my car last night, and he stopped by to drop it off. I went outside to wait for him, and decided to snap some picture of the neighborhood in the meanwhile. When Justin showed up, I hopped in the passenger side and we made our way back to his apartment (so we could drop him off). I had…
We went to Hollywood Grill to grab a bite to eat. More of a late breakfast actually. To my surprise, they were rather packed and we had to wait around for a table. I got to meet a friend of theirs (Ricky), and the four of us settled into a hearty breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, you name it. We…
Late last night, Dustin (a3dmofo) and Sherie got to my apartment around 1:15 AM. They’d been in Jamaica the past week, and were adjusting to the rather brisk cold that had swept over the midwest. We talked a while about their trip, and how warm and fun everything was (sounded like they had a blast). I’m sure they’ll have pictures…
I’m aware it’s a Friday night. Shut up!
I came across this on DIK a few days back. Go visit ni9e.com, and check out the Flash-based type animations they’ve got going on. Awesome! When I saw this, I started talking to Ben about how this might have been constructed. I had a few theories on how it might be done through scripting (we both felt that it wasn’t…