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| Please, do this! 25.05.2006 |
| If you find yourself browsing and you find one website that opens in a pop up, and also resizes the window to get fullscreen, so it's on top of everything else you had, close the window! don't let it load or anything. Just close it and go away. If you want to compare to something, is like buying sweets to your kid because he is crying for some sweets. If you buy him sweets, everytime he wants sweets he will cry again, and this is bad, isn't it? So, don't let the website developers use childish tricks like that to gain your attention, let them know that it's annoying just closing the window. If we all do this the world will become better! :D |
| posted by mr.doob at 12:18 |
9 comments| Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" 23.05.2006 |
| Right... you may seen that some weeks ago there was a Windows Automatic Update which installed a "Genuine Advantage" thing... Luckily I saw this before install it on the computer we use as server at home, so I was able to cancel it. That really pissed me off and made me lose all the little interest that I had about Windows Vista. I don't think I'll move to Windows Vista, really... I'll probably turn in a Linux guy or MAC guy before doing that. By now I'm testing some linux distros in order to get rid of that Windows copy from that machine. I'm ovbiously looking for a distro which uses Xgl, I tried Kororaa, but crashed after some play with it. Looks like ATI drivers are going to be a problem in all this stuff. Well, meanwhile I found out that you don't need Macromedia Flash in order to compile SWF files, yes, I know I probably has been quite late on this, but as you can see on this Article (spanish) written by Zárate it's quite straight forward to avoid Windows for this matter. However, Macromedia released the SDK so you can also compile AS3 in any platform (afaik) Photoshop will be the one that will keep me on Windows or macOS probably. I can learn MAYA or something like that in order to don't have to use 3DStudioMAX anymore. Also the other thing that keep me in this Window platform is the demoscene and the VJ (neon) stuff... So, well... Don't be surprised yet... All this change will take place probably in some years... Maybe by then MenuetOS (which I think is how an OS should be like (it's still 600kbytes!)) will be the one... Who knows? And, yeah, I know that the Genuine Advantage update has already been cracked, it's still anoying anyone. UPDATE: I've just tired that Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, which checks if your computer is good enough to run Vista, and well, looks like my laptop is good enough, however seems that isn't ready because it doesn't have 15GB free. Does that mean that Vista will need 15GB free?! WHAT FOR?!!! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 01:41 |
| The real party is... coming soon! 20.05.2006 |
And the website is ready! http://www.playboymansionparty.com |
| posted by trace at 10:15 |
| No, I don't follow the football... and I hate TV. 18.05.2006 |
| Just for the fact that I'm Spaniard and from Barcelona, the people use to think that I love football. Well, when I was a kid I did, probably because my mind was so simple and I didn't have anything else to think about. Right now, I don't have time to follow it, and well I just don't see the point. It's a show, yeah, but repetitive. And, I'm sorry, I can't be happy if someone elses win. I'm happy if I win something, if someone I care about win something. But people that earns 20 times what I do, winning? Why should I feel excited? I should feel depressed instead... It really depresses me when I see thousands of people going to the street to celebrate that 11 guys won something. What a waste of time. However I can understand that the people likes it, everybody likes to shout and throw all that energy in someway, and if you scream with some other people in front of a TV watching a football match nobody is going to think weird things about you, or is going to call the police. But again.. that's not for me.. And there is probably a lot of people like me nowadays, I call it the "interactive" generation. Hehe... That kind of people that are moving from the TV to internet, where atleast you can chose what you want to see instead of opening a direct channel to your brain to anything that the TV wants to infect you with. The funny thing was that at home, when I was watching the TV with the family, they were always changing the channel whenever the ADs where starting. And ADs are the most interesting thing of TV imho, 10/15 seconds of concentrated ideas/motions trying to catch the people. In fact, that's the only thing I miss now that I don't have TV. Uhm.... |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 09:46 |
| Barcelona = full of shit(s) 15.05.2006 |
 I did this picture some years ago in a town near to Barcelona, I found the scenario like this, I didn't added anything, I just had my camera with me :D Well.. Yeah! As usual, when I go back to Barcelona, I end up pissed off for eveything that doesn't go as I'm used to now. This time the problem was on the floor. And as this time I spent a lot of time just walking and observing the city... Just because I was looking up for the new buildings and building changes, I step on some of them :'( Some of them were dry some weren't (puagh!). Specially in my neighbourhood. That's one of the things I realised the last time I was here, there are quite a lot of dogs, anytime you go walk around you can see more than one person just walking with a dog. And because this then we got the problem of this post. I know, very disgusting... |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 06:36 |
| offf06: Day 3 (Saturday) 15.05.2006 |
| 6:23, Monday morning, I just woke up at 5:05 this morning, tho yesterday I went to sleep at.. uhmm.. 16:00? Hehe.. I really had to be tired :) However, it's time to do the Day 3 report.. tho It was 2 days ago, so let's pretend that today is yesterday.. :P As on thursday I went to sleep at 5:00 or so, I wasn't going able to watch the 2 speeches before the lunch time (Granatta and Dr. Woohoo / Jürg Lehni)... I had a lunch with my parents and my brother instead (one of those things that happens once a year now.. So at 15:40 I was ready to go back to the festival... Syrup (web) I arrived when this one was going on.. Didn't see too much of them, but was again one of those conferences where the guys just browse their site a little bit a show projects and explain a bit of what they do for each one. I took some pictures meanwhile that one and I realized how many people was sleeping (probably the siesta thing).. Rob Chiu (web) After checking what was going on in the other rooms I sit down in the main room and Rob Chiu prepared for his speech. Nando Costa was suposed to do the speech following the timetable but looks like he wasn't able to come and also Rob Chiu (the ronin) didn't do the speech on Thursday because someone stolen his laptop in Barcelona (great! uh?!). Again this one was about showing the work he did and explaining some facts about it. However, as it was motiongraphics it was somehow more easy to see. I really liked how each piece was musicalized, the audio was great in each one, well, anything he does have always a great audio ambient. Erik Natzke (web) Meanwhile Rob Chiu and Erik was swaping the stage I met Wences from DMSTK (a cool digitalart focused spanish forum I'm in) to see if they had any spare XL t-shirt for me :) So they had and I went to get some money to pay for it :P As soon as I came to my place (just in front of the stage I saw that was super full and was quite hard to sit down again there. Erik Natzke was showing his work and his progress, at that moment I didn't know who he was but after being there a bit I remembered all their works. This guy is the inventor of the "book effect" done in flash. Respect! :D He showed great stuff done with Actionscript and ended up showing his latest stuff which reminds me a bit to Doobscii but done with ribbons, I was very impressed and very motivated after this speech. Ben Fry & Casey Reas (web) Ok, here started the down part of the day. It was cool to see the processing-script inventors, but was also very boring. Some bits and techniques of how Casey uses his script to creaty his illustrations were cool, but when Casey stop talking and changed to Ben Fry which was speaking about using processing and that style to visualize data information.. Well, I had to leave!! Marius Watz (web) During this one I was outside sharing some beers one of the guys behind CDMON (which hosts xplsv.tv), and also he introduced me to Yeoh Guan Hong. A guy that I didn't know anything about, and also he didn't know anything about me. However, we had a cool and long chat :) Then for some reason I thought I was missing the exposition room this year so I explored a little bit more the building and I found it (the orgos are always changing the rooms). Luckilly after finding the exposition room I saw there Joshua Davis just playing around with his "software", and leting the people play around with it too. I checked all the computers in the exhibition but 50% of them was already silly-fucked up (you know those people that try to reboot the machine or just go to other websites in exhibition computers, well I was one of those so, I should not complain :P). After that I went down to the main room again to see how the conference was going on and well, I wasn't interested at all. Instead of that I went to have some short chat with Rob Chiu and also with hahakid / Hi-Res which was more interesting than the speech going on :P Tmema - Zach Lieberman & Golan Levin (web) At this point I just wanted to leave the festival, the stuff that was going on was maybe to technical and not too creative (lack of concepts). However I stayed for the begining of this show, which was impressive on the beginning but boring after the 5th slide, so I left :) After that I went to just walk throught Barcelona a bit, eixample, ramblas, sants.. the usual places but just to check the new things.. I think I spent 4hours doing a zig-zag walk until I arrived home. So that was the end of OFFF for me. See you all next year, let's see if I can meet more people! |
| posted by mr.doob at 06:26 |
| offf06: Day 2 (Friday) 13.05.2006 |
| Heh! here is finally the post, it's quite late, 4:13am, I've just arrived home, but I still have some energies for writing this.. So, today was in fact my first day in the place. Went there just first time in the morning. I went by tube, and I realized that there are new kind of trains (more futuristic) in barcelona (just some), cool! Once there I went directly to the CDMON to complain about the crash of the server yesterday!! hehehe, just kidding, just went there to speak a bit with Marc Palau which gave me two t-shirts.. a CDMON one and a promsite one. After that, I checked the other stands (which were upstairs this year), bought the last Icons book "Web design: Flash sites" at the Loren Art stand and meanwhile had a super fast chat with Sergi of niubc. So after that I went to the roots room to hear the conferences.To be honest I don't remember too much about some of them... The decoration this time was much cheaper than previous years (IKEA).. Anyway, let's say something about the guys doing the conferences... WIG-01 (web) I didn't see too much from them, I just arrived when they were almost finishing, however the motions they where showing were pretty cool. Also, they looked like two young english guys with a nice attitude. Waskman (web) I had a personal problem with these guys. I tried to contact them in order to do some work together but after trying to contact them in some different ways they didn't get back to me. Having said that, I had to admit that some of the project they did were quite interesting, reminds me a bit of what my brother tried to do as a company, but heh.. these guys look more succesfull than my brother. Then, it was lunch break, so I went to the restaurant we went the last year where I had very nice food for cheap prizes. I also did the mistake of all those british foreigners, asking for a 1liter sangria as it was very cheap. After drinking all of it, I had to go to rest a bit in some of the kinds-of-beds that they had in the same level of the stants. I was veery drunk :S! Folkert Gorter (web) I was still drunk, but I was still able to listen what the people said to me ;) IIt was very interesting to see one of the guys which is behing the super succesful newstoday.com. However, the guy was quite stressed because the public and had some troubles meanwhile speaking.. However, the stuff he was showing was quite interesting, a little bit too conceptual and weird sometimes but interesting.. Chuck Anderson (web) I'd seen some illustrations from this guy before. And I'm sure you did too. Somehow he was able to create a nice style for images just adding some shines, particles and colours on the top of grey in the images. Pretty similar to the work I did for Stargazer but with better results. Pretty fun and relaxed guy being very honest and also doing a good speech, showing mainly his work. Supperstudio (web) Ok, these ones are spanish ones, and as spaniards, they had to do something rude and with lack of respect. They had these chocolate tablets with they were going to give to the audience. At the beginning they were putting them on piles on the front, but then somehow they started to throw them very violently to the audience. It was pretty scare cos you didn't want one of those chocolate tablets hitting in your eye or something. However, the speech was interesting, they mainly do work for the supermarket EROSKI. Packaging, posters, motiongraphics.. everything with a nice end result. They also mentioned some interesting tips of the sector like people using body cream instead of a soup to make the picture for the packaging of a soup, just because the texture of the body cream looks better than the real soup. Weird. Ze Frank (web) Oh! That one was one of my favourites. he don't know too much about design. He don't know too much about programming (well, he actually knows quite a bit..). Well, he knows a bit of all but it's not the best he can do. He is just a show-man, and he does great shows, it was a 1hour show were I didn't stop laughting. Some themes he was talking about were a little bit mixed, but in general was a great show. You should check his stuff. Hi-Res (web) + Nanika (web) Hi-Res! Finally I saw them! I always wanted to see them in live. Very nice guys again showing the works they did recently. One of the interesting things of Hi-Res is that usually the final "product" is quite ugly, but it does have a lot of meaning and the ideas on it are that good that the design doesn't really matter. The most impressive thing was when Andreas Muller showed his piece For All Seasons rendered in realtime in a webcam image, where he was showing a paper with a pattern on it. The engine detected the pattern, then detected the perspective of it, and rendered the worlds there, just fitting in the "real world". Nice!! Kyle Cooper (web) The last one was the idol of masses Kile Cooper. My first impression was that was just and old guy that was just blabling about endless stories losing the topic totally and after 20min of blabling stopping and thinking, what I was talking about?! nevermind, just put that video. Also I felt like he was still living about the credits he did for se7en. He showed some other credits he did, and the only ones that I quite liked where Wimbledon ones. Which I liked a lot the first time I saw them but didn't know that Kile did them. As some of the previous guys he was talking saying (or atleast the poor oldie guy was trying to) "don't let the software define the result". I think that is a very interesting statement. Once that one was finished I went to say hi to Vent'daval & co. Then we went to have some dinner and ended up at Fonfone where some guy was playing very good techno sometimes. Well, 5:00 now, time to sleep! :D |
| posted by mr.doob at 02:44 |
| offf06: Day 1 (Thursday) 11.05.2006 |
| Ok, I'm still at home. I think my plane will arrive at 21:00 more or less. That means that I won't see anything!! Things that I won't be able to see and I really wanted to: Bradley Grosh (GMUNK) WeWorkForThem Scott Hansen (ISO 50) Rob Chiu (The Ronin) insert-coint.tv :'( |
| posted by mr.doob at 13:49 |
| off to offf 11.05.2006 |
| In no more than two hours I'll depart once again to BCN. Yeah I know "why you didn't say it earlier?", my mother said the same ;) I'm going mainly for the OFFF festival where I did an speech the last year. I wanted to do an installation this year, but I didn't have time+motivation to produce it. Luckily, Spring Digital will pay me the flight+entrance thanks to the interesting "May: Make yourself more interesting" approach. I'll try to do a little bit of report of the festival just in case I think it worth it :) |
| posted by mr.doob at 13:39 |
| FC64 11.05.2006 |
| I think this is cool enough to have a post here... As some of you may know, Macromedia (fuck Adobe!) is already working on the next version of Flash (Flash 9) which will introduce ActionScript 3. The way of coding in ActionScript3 is totally different from ActionScript1, so I'll probably jump directly to ActionScript3. I'm right now still trying to move to program with Classes and stuff. Anyway, you may think, so what's the new stuff in Flash9? Usually the people think that in each version they don't do too much.. Well, they do quite a lot, but mainly for Actionscript (which it what it needs). Now is turning to something similar to JAVA, which is cool. There is a lot of new functions and things you can do, but one of the coolest one is that with AS3 you'll be able to read binary files, parse them and stuff like that. So, don't be surprised if I tell you that people already did a C64 emulator.  (You will need Flash 9 player beta in order to see it.) I wonder how my demoscene effects may look when moving to AS3. Btw, If you want to read more about that C64 emulator done in flash, check out this blog. |
| posted by mr.doob at 11:08 |
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