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Coded Beauty

10/2008

I just launched the website accompanying my diploma project. As the creation of this blog was initially caused by this diploma project I’m really pleased to announce it here.

Flash on the Beach – Slide Collection

10/10/2008

While collecting the slides for all the amazing stuff I’ve seen at FOTB I thought it might be useful for some other people as well to have one place where you can easily find them all. Unfortunately only a small part of the speakers have put their slides online. Anyway here we go, all FOTB08 Slides I could find.

Flash on the Beach and “The Jonathan Harris Affair”

06/10/2008

Wow, what a week. As it was my first Flash on the Beach and as well my first (Flash) conference at all I have to say that I’m really amazed of all the fun, inspiration, learning and beer drinking that has been going on in wonderful Brighton. It’s hard to say what I was expecting, but anyway what I got was way more.

ExtendScript – Use Flash in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

07/07/2008

While doing some general research on which technologies are good to use if you’re doing generative artwork I stumbled upon ExtendScript. It is an extended implementation of JavaScript which can be used to control and automate the major Adobe Creative Suite Applications beeing Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Since CS3 Flash can be used to build the GUI for using ExtendScript in these Applications.

Magic Moments – net.culture.space

02/07/2008

Yesterday I was at a wonderful exhibition opening at the net.culture.space which is a branch of the well known Ars Electronica Center.

The exhibition is called “Magic Moments” and aims to break the barriers between the real and the digital world.