March 30, 2006 | This short film is: odd, crazy, funny, cool, really well made, and has a touch of Mad Max and Duel thrown in for good measure. This is the kind of short film that can get somebody a job making genre action films. Good for them. The director and star, Nash Edgerton, is an Austrialian based stuntman who has been in a lot of movies, including doubling for Ewen McGregor in Star Wars Ep3. His being a stunt man will make a lot of sense once you see the movie. (link) (#)
March 29, 2006 | Really nice set of JS files for loading full size images from thumbnails without changing URL or refreshing, very AJAX-y. Hmmm, might have to implement Lightbox on Lightbox, or the Smart family albums at least. (link) (#)
March 27, 2006 | Nice little video collection featuring artists and producers using Adobe apps. We're starting to see more marketing pieces like this from Adobe that are bringing the Macromedia apps right in with the traditional Adobe apps. IE: Flash and Photoshop on the same page. I also like the last interview in the piece with Francois Vogel, creator of the amazing HP Picture Book ads. (link) (#)
March 27, 2006 | Daring Fireball on the success of the iPod and how this is a very different situation that Apple had in the late 80s with the early success of the Mac. (link) (#)
March 27, 2006 | This update will also patch the Test Movie player used when developing in Flash 8 Professional as detailed in this security bulletin. (link) (#)
March 24, 2006 | Video animators and producers are invited to submit work for inclusion on Adobe's 2006 customer showcase reel to be debuted at Siggraph later this year. (link) (#)
March 24, 2006 | An Adobe engineer on the Photoshop team addresses their plans (or lack thereof) around bringing Photoshop CS2 to the Universal Binary format to run on new Intel-based Macs. Bottom line, they're already so far along the road toward CS3 it makes no sense to go backward. (link) (#)
March 17, 2006 | Three very nice collections of useful icons. Silk has over 700 icons. (link) (#)
March 17, 2006 | Veerle gives us a look at her process and methodology employed during her recent redesign. I like individual elements of her site, but personally it feels a bit cluttered and busy overall. (link) (#)
March 17, 2006 | Dan Cederholm updates his site in simple and subtle ways for a nice effect. (link) (#)
March 14, 2006 | Lee Brimelow, creator of the great GotoAndLearn() flash (and more) tutorial site now has a forum running. (link) (#)
March 9, 2006 | This looks great to me, but still waiting to see how the story plays out. Lots of visual jokes hidden in this trailer. Cadillac Ranch anyone? (Go Bruce!) Still waiting on nice HD version from Apple. Tomorrow maybe. Here's the sweet HD version at Apple.com (link) (#)
March 9, 2006 | If you're building out your own Mac-based home media center, perhaps around the new Mac Mini, you might want to look at these third party add-ons. (link) (#)
March 9, 2006 | JG Ballard takes a look back at his life and the experience of seeing his book Empire of the Sun turned into a movie from Steven Spielberg. This is one of my favorite movies, despite its flaws. "P-51! Cadillac of the sky!" (link) (#)
March 7, 2006 | ProAnimator, think 'standalone version of Invigorator 3d for After Effects but with a lot more bells and whistles', has been bumped up to v4. (link) (#)
March 7, 2006 | Ok, file this one under "why do I even try?" (link) (#)
March 7, 2006 | Macromedia... er, rather... Adobe has released the new AS3.0 language spec which will make its debut later this year when Flash Player 8.5 is released. It's currently being used in the Flex 2.0 beta also available from the labs. (link) (#)
March 3, 2006 | 37Signals has published a new book on creating successful web apps. The entire book is available online only as a PDF for $19.99. In the first day, they sold 1750 copies. (link) (#)
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