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I barely made this week’s links by the skin of my teeth. This upcoming week may see a shortage of posts since my wife and I getting the hell out of dodge for a while. All that being said, I should have some really good content coming up in the next couple weeks.

Enjoy the links.

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Well, everyone was busy talking about the MacBook Air, so I decided not to. You will not find one article on said laptop in this list. You’re welcome.

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Finally, I can write about this. I am going to keep this relatively short today, but I will try to write more in-depth about this project later on. I had the fortune to be the lead on Current TV’s Viewpoints project on design and development. The design and interactive features are pretty simple, but we wanted to make the experience to be have rich motion and subtle stylistic informational cues. The application was built in Actionscript 3 and a lot of the motion design just could not have been done without AS3’s improved performance. There are a lot of pieces that are still to come in for this project, but my hope is people enjoy playing around on Viewpoints and end up leaving webcam opinions of their own. If you do in fact like the design, concept, content or a combination of them all, I would really appreciate you putting out the word to your friends/colleagues about this project - Viewpoints will not work without extensive participation. One easy way to do this would be to add it to your delicious bookmarks.

On a side note, I am in one of the topics, but you will have to look hard.

More to come.actionscript, as3, cues, current, current tv, informational, interactive features, motion design, stylistic, viewpoints project webcam

So my life has been consumed by my role in the Current TV Beta project - in fact, it is directly responsible for the lack of writing or content on this blog for the past month or two. All the being said, it has been a blast and I would love to share the work I have been a part of. Once all the dust settles, I will talk much more about what I did, but for now, I wanted to hand off my remaining 5 invitations into the private beta if anyone is interested. Considering I most likely have only 4 readers left from my absence, I do not foresee much fighting - still, first come, first serve.absence, beta project, blog, current, current dot com, current private beta, current tv, first come first serve, invitations private beta

I have seen this person’s work before and was immediately taken by it. I am truly glad to see this artist get some exposure as his art and its message are extremely relevant in today’s culture. I highly suggest you take a few minutes out of this day to watch the video as well as go to artist’s site.

On a side note, Current TV, the folks who aired this video, just won an Emmy. Congrats to them.art, artist, chris jordan, consumption, current tv, video waste