For this job rehabstudio were asked by google adwords to come up with ideas to help them celebrate their 10th birthday whilst saying thank you to it’s customers using a personalised video and infographics.

The channel was built in AS3 and utilises Bulk Loader to managed the preloading of pages and assets. A purpose built, video player was created to handle the personalisation elements, and a combination of away3dlite, nape physics engine, and google maps was used to bring the infrographics to life. The site was localised into 46 different languages including RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic.

The channel received almost 2 million hits in it’s first two weeks.

The brief for this job was to create a site showcasing Tetra Pak’s Circle Of Protection campaign, incorporating motion driven navigation, animation, and video. The site needed to be dynamic and CMS driven, also allowing for localisation.

The site was built in AS3 and utilises Bulk Loader to managed the preloading of pages and assets, as well as SWF Address to create deep links into the site. The site utilises your webcamto detect movement & gestures allowing the user to navigate around the site. Video is served from Brightcoves streaming service, and the site is driven by the rehabstudio CMS.

This is the new site I have built for Imagey Nation a creative production studio delivering high-end CGI, live-action, photo-retouching, and post production for the film, music and advertising industries.

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Last week I found myself needing to convert a colour image to black and white and here’s how I did it!

import flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter;
import fl.motion.AdjustColor;
//==========================
var color : AdjustColor;
var colorMatrix : ColorMatrixFilter;
var matrix : Array;
var filterBW : Array;
color = new AdjustColor();
color.brightness = 20;
color.contrast = 20;
color.hue = 0;
color.saturation = -100;
matrix = color.CalculateFinalFlatArray();
colorMatrix = new ColorMatrixFilter(matrix);
filterBW = [colorMatrix];

Now we can set the .filters property of our image to be filterBW, and shazam you have a black and white image.

I have been thinking about building a visualiser since 2003 (when I saw one on www.2advanced.com) and have finally found the time to look into AS3′s computeSpectrum as well as Richard Lords’ FLiNT Particle System and came up with this example which uses Jamie T’s – The Man’s Machine (which you can buy here).

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I’ve started a long commute into work again recently and so have dug out my PSP and bought a couple of new games one of which is the new GTA Chinatown Wars. One of the radio stations has been given over to DJ Khalil, and the tracks he’s produced for this game really hit the spot.

I’ve posted up my personal favourite but The Koalition have very kindly put together a mixtape of all the tracks which you can grab here.

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Enjoy.

Autumn Evening from jam343′s flickr photostream

Just a bit of electronic goodness to keep you warm on these cold autumn mornings/nights, hopefully I will get some time in the next month or so to put together a proper mix.

Also keep checking Tycho’s iso50 site, Scott has just finished some beautiful artwork for his latest single (you can hear the Lusine remix here, or through the Ghostly International Discovery App for iPhone with these mood settings), and I hope should be releasing a new album in the next couple of months.

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Just recently I had some time and decided to take a look at the flash api for google maps. Initially I didn’t have a plan, I just wanted to start using the api, but once I realised how easy it was to get setup I thought I should try and do something a little bit more interesting, so I decided to see if I could track and tag myself across London.

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www.fashionair.com is all about well… fashion, reading about it, talking about it, watching it,and  buying it. The site has lots of dynamically driven, CMS managed flash pages with tons of lovely videos and imagery. It has a massive selection of products  to browser through and buy which are linked to across the site from blogs, articles, and videos.

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You’d think that there would be a way to clear BitmapData maybe something like BitmapData.clear(), but when is anything that simple. So far the best I’ve come up with is…

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