Eric Miranda

Last week, I got an email from a woman in Nashville saying that she grew up with ERIC MIRANDA in New York. The state somewhere, the name of the place escapes me. Anyway, I briefly thought it odd that I was being contacted, but weirder things have happened online.

I made the appropriate forwards and Eric Miranda got in touch with her or vice versa or whatever. I was speaking to Eric Miranda last night and he said the reason she contacted me was when she Googled his name, my blog came up first. I'd mentioned Eric Miranda in terms of his comedy stylings at FiTC Hollyweird.

In case it's escaped your notice, I'm blasting Eric's name (his full name, mind you) so that I can Google his name (or he can, hehehehe) and see my post. Mostly because it's funny.

How Cute is This?

I know I've posted twice tonight, but I was working on getting ALL of the pictures off my phone and LOOK AT THIS!!!



About two seconds later, Declan jerked his body, alarmed Dude and Dude growled then snapped in Declan's general direction. Causing Libs to stop laughing, smack Dude a little and pick Declan up. I wish that was what I got a picture of.

But holy shit, does that not look like Declan would be a meal for Dude? Or Dude a trusty steed for Declan?

Flash 10th Anniversary

Last month, I was invited by Adobe to do a little presenting at their 10th anniversary of Flash party during the RGD conference. I totally forgot to link it up. I still have a few things to do to make it user friendly, but here's some basic instructions and some links;

First off; it turned out I wasn't necessarily presenting, per se. I was, along with a couple of other folks, just showing some stuff. Luckily I took it to an extreme and made a cool little party tool. Without further ado I give you, the video scratcher.

Here's the gist of it;
1. Once the video starts playing, start pressing and holding the spacebar. Each time you do that, you will record a start (onPress) and end (onRelease) frame for reference in the video.




2. Once the video is finished, the Keypad interface will slide out, start clicking on the selected frames to see what you saved as start and end points. They will loop a couple of times for you to illustrate how the loop will look and sound.

3. To lock a start and end point to a number key, press and release 1-9 on your upper keyboard keys (NOT the number keys on the right side, alas. That does work locally, but apparently not online). A copy of the selection should fill the numbered square. Then clicking the key repeatedly should give you the loop. GO ahead, try it out. I'll wait.



4. Once you've filled all 9 number keys, a "LET 'ER RIP" button will arrive in the nick of time to save you from your obvious discomfort. Click and start the show.

5. First off, a kaleidoscope will start to run. This is an adapatation of Mario Klingemann's and I gotta say, he is exceptionally smart. I hope he likes what I did. Here are your controls;

[+]/[-] - more/less tiles
[left direction key] - start/stop rotation 1
[up direction key] - start/stop rotation 2
[down direction key] - start/stop rotation 3
[right direction key] - toggle flip tiles

and then your number keys.






The audio was done in Reaktor 5 and Fruity Loops. The audio is a relatively simple non-repeating music looper. Check it out here by itself.

Little D, Three Months Old!

That's right, on the 19th, Declan was three months old. Amazing.

Here's video of something I just discovered he laughs hard at. I know it looks like I'm shaking him, but I'm just vibrating his arms. And he finds it funny as hell.



And here's one of the first movies of him from when he was only wee. Like a week old.



Amazing. Last night, Libs' Aunt Susan babysat and we were actually able to go to a movie. Sweet.