South African up and comers Die Antwoord, have created a buzz in the music scene. My first impression of Die Antwoords music was ANNOYING. But out of curiosity, I went back for a third and fourth listen and it surprisingly found a place in my music electronic collection. Die Antwoord is composed of South Africa artists, Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek. Their sound has a catchy modern day pop like presence,...

Bandwidth detection can be used in a flash site to load optimized assets for the client based on the detected bandwidth. Unfortunately, the Flash Player does not have a native bandwidth detection system, so we can’t accurately predict the users bandwidth. Bandwidth test results vary greatly due to many factors like latency, but, we can get an idea of the users download bandwidth by using flash to download...

Eighty Four Films is an independent production company operating in Buffalo,NY and San Francisco,CA. They make animations, commercials and music videos. Recently they have collaborated with a few of San Francisco’s finest illustrators, Ferris Plock, Jay Howell, Skinner, Jeremy Fish and Kelly Tunstall. The stories are quite short, but they represent the style and feel of the original artists work. Check...

Back in the early 2000’s I use to notice Stay Gold stickers all around the city (San Francisco). I inquired with in the local graffiti community to see if anyone would claim them, to my surprise no one really new who was pasting them about. So, I asked a friend, who is pretty much the ambassador of San Francisco, and soon found out, that the man behind the sticker was actually a local graphic designer...

At some point in your Flash career you will be asked to implement some sort of Flash widget that communicates with the latest social community apps, like Facebook and Twitter. This post was influenced by a clients request for an application that would display Twitter feeds based on a particular search term . The following example is a proof of concept based off the clients inquiry. Press the Search button to...