Archive for the ‘minneapolis’ Category

Fun with SWFAddress, Tweener, and animating the URL

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I've been playing around with doing some animations in the URL and also the title bar. The very awesome SWFAddress makes it quite easy to play around with. I started out with some very simple blinking, here and after that, moved on to some simple animation loops,  here and since that wasn't enough, ...

Presentation for MNSWF Code Camp: Intro to Papervision3d

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I'm pleased to announce a small collection of Papervision3D 2.0 demos and sources. You may access these by using subversion to check out the following repository. svn checkout http://modern-carpentry.com/svn/pv3d Please note that you must also be using the effects branch of Papervision3D 2.0, and to compile these files you must change the build ...

working with puny entertainment

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I've accepted a full time job at PUNY Entertainment in north-east minneapolis. My tasks include, but are not limited to actionscript 3 design and devopment, petting Harvey the office dog, and growing up. Here's where we work, have a look around- After working part time at PUNY for a couple of ...

Short Circuits 2: a celebration of Richard Stallman’s birthday

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I helped organize a fun event for yesterday.  You can get more specific information about it here  (when we finish editing the wiki about the event...) Or you can just enjoy my recap of the event below: who is richard stallman? -bio Stallman was born to Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman in 1953 in ...

Going through some changes.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

the talk of modern carpentry will soon have a new look. until then, please bear with the development. thank you-

tweening .flv frames

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I've been working with some cool .flv stuff for awhile. In light of joe turgeon's work with stop motion photography, and its possible application to video, I have become very interested in manipulating every frame of a video mathematically. click on any picture to check it out. The linked example may take a ...

online identity and me, our community

Monday, January 7th, 2008

there's been some interesting things popping up as of late regarding the issues of identity in an online world ( a supposedly fake one), and this lil journal to myself is just a reflection upon what I've been thinking about in the past couple of days regarding it. To be a ...

Happy New Year!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

2007 was crazy in many ways, ranging from a great poverty of spirit, wallet and mores to an over-abundance of creativity, learning, and future promise. It's been very special to me for many reasons, but I'll list a few people/things in no particular order: -Joe t. -Craig s. -Maran w. -Family - the return of ...

season’s greetings from modern carpentry

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Click on a picture and enjoy! check out the snow

Internal: Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I have recently been working on creating flash websites that are running off of a Drupal CMS. This approach to bringing content into flash is pretty slick for a couple of reasons: it provides the maintainer of a website a user friendly way to put content into their website with ...