This blog is now closed

Yup, due to me no longer working for Randommedia I have been asked to remove all traces of Randommedia branding from the blog. I thought now would be a good time to close this one down and re-open my own personal blog elsewhere.

So please update your links, feed readers, aggregators etc to point to:

http://www.dustypixels.com/blog

Thankyou, and Goodbye.

WebDU photos

I've posted my photos from WebDU in Sydney on Flickr, you can see them along with others from the conference in the WebDU group @ http://www.flickr.com/groups/webdu/

More photos from my current travels are also up @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/46549372@N00/

another fine mess!

just noticed all the flash examples on this site have stopped working as they were all hosted on the randommedia domain. nothing I can do about it now (I'm currently sitting in Guys talk at WebDU) but I'll fix it all up when I get back to England and my good old desktop computer :)

Random swansong...

Just noticed we were up for a Flashforwad award for the last BBC projet I worked on, a series of flash cartoons and games called 'A fairly reliable history of British films'. We didn't win, but at least we went down fighting :)

blogging is tough work!

Ok, so I've not blogged anything on my travel blog, shame on me, but instead have been taking loads of photos. Check them out @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/46549372@N00/

I'm currently in Sydney, Australia, hanging out with Tink & Guy @ the WebDU conference. Bit of a culture shock after the beaches, and expensive too! And although it's a lot nicer than back home still, it feels pretty cold here after Thailand!

R.I.P RandomMedia

Well, after 5 years of hard work it appears Randommedia are now dead, the domain no longer loads. Damn shame if you ask me!

Thailand blog...

...don't think I'll be posting here much for a while at least, see my new Thailand travel blog to keep up with my adventures :)

AdSiam

AS2 Perlin Noise DisplacementMapFilter

This one repetitively applies a filter to the bitmap image. Sure in AS3 this could be bigger, but it's pretty smooth even in AS2.

samorost2

Simple interaction but still very engaging. I like weird pretty games like this.
But I'm stuck on the 3rd level and I'm too busy to continue

http://www.samorost2.net/

Flash Webcam Experiments

Bought a shiney new webcam last weekend to play with Flash 8's webcam input and the new Bitmap functions a bit more, here's the results so far.

One thing, my camera does 320*240 but most cheapo webcams are only 160*120, so not sure how this will look on a lower res camera (as I'm doing an image scale up by 2), be interested to find out.

And of course they all look a lot better moving, so if you have a webcam click the image to launch the app...

Friday Night Cam, for that 'after the pub feeling'...


Cube Cam (looks really nice moving)


Spikey Cam


...and I can't believe no-one else has done this yet...

Ascii Cam