So when Macromedia was aquired by Adobe, everyone began to speculate about what was happening to the "duplicated" programs: Illustrator/Freehand, Dreamweaver/GoLive, and Fireworks/Photoshop. The first two are pretty easy: bye bye Freehand and GoLive (though the Adobe representative I spoke with said he didn't know, but c'mon dudes). However, ( Read more... )

My first session of today was awesome. Character animation in Flash. I got a lot of hints as to how I'm going to work on the Carly's Kids Corner redesign, plus animation shortcuts.

The coolest thing, though, was that I got to talk with the excellent Flash animator, Chris Georgenes, who happened to have developed/animated one of my favorite ( Read more... )

Whugs, I can't believe I forgot my camera. I mean it's a big, bulky, 2 megapixel shitty camera, but still ( Read more... )

As an update, apparantly what Italy calls gnocci is what Ireland calls potato dumplings. I'm eating out on the company bill, so I'm trying to order expensive dishes (okay, not exactly, but close), and I ordered the one my first night, and the other my second night. It was the same type of potato in a different sauce ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here, at the Venecian Hotel, in the "lunchroom" on a beanbag. I feel very...important ( Read more... )

My schedule for Adobe Max next week is, for the most part finalized. I'm going to recount my schedule of events here:

Monday, October 23
Depart Omaha at 03:30 PM and
arrive in Las Vegas at 04:20 PM

Tuesday, October 24
10:30 AM-A Customer's Perspective: A case study on Big Spaceship ( Read more... )

I think the last thing I want to see on YouTube is a shirtless old cowboy waxing philosophical on "What is YouTube all about, anyway?" In fact, I don't want to see anybody asking what's YouTube all about unless they don't know what YouTube really is. (And don't give me that, "Do we really, truly know what YouTube is?" bull's hit ( Read more... )