Me and the guys from Bureau BlauwGeel have been working together on their new website: http://www.bureaublauwgeel.nl
The CMS-based website uses video files to create a dynamic, living and breathing background.
Each menu item has a background image that slowly zooms in to keep that dynamic feel.
Although the background and interface always adjust to the size of [...]
The folks at Bureau Blauwgeel have put together a very cool trailer of the Copenhagen Live Video project that we did together! Watch it here:
The 1st of january was a special day for Twitterfountain users since the new version of Twitterfountain went live.
The update incorporates:
New styling (including a cool logo)
A more user-friendly interface
A more versatile search engine, now inluding flickr, picasa, twitpic and yfrog
Different customisable message and image animations
A plug-and-play architecture that allows actionscript developers to write their own [...]
A popular effect these days is using a strong ‘depth of field’ effect in film and photography. The subject of the image is sharp, while the rest of the image is out of focus. I wondered if this effect could be simulated in actionscript without resorting to a 3D package like Away3D.
In this experiment I [...]
Last week the Copenhagen video player has gone live. The player shows live video reports filmed by the youth delegation of VROM (Dutch ministry). The player shows live video streams being broadcast from mobile phone video cameras. Reporters don’t have to upload anything at all, they just switch on their phone camera and the video [...]
Video experience website www.scholtenhuis.nl has won a “Gouden Reiger” media award at the Keying into the brain festival for communication and interactive media.
The festival is organised for communication professionals, creatives and non-profit organisations like museums, heritage foundations and the government.
A displacement map is an age-old filter that’s been around since the first versions of Photoshop. When you use a displacement map in photoshop, you take a single image and project it onto another image. The black & white values of the first image are then used to “displace” the pixels in the second image.
The [...]
