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Terrible Timing

by Tim Frick

Terrible Spaceship, an ‘ambient synthetic horror pop’ ensemble comprised of Bumpus members and folks from Mightybytes, performed their very first show at Martyrs in early September.

The experience was a well-received sensory overload of music, performance and synced video clips that captured audience attention and got the crowd moving. The show gave us an opportunity to experiment with triggering visuals and creating real-time motion graphics on-the-fly using an M-Audio Trigger Finger and new software from Arkaos called Grand VJ.

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Portfolio Teardown

by Whit Nelson

Flash is amazing. For years it has allowed programmers to do what was impossible in the browser.

When it comes to games, rich media, and specifically video, it has been eating HTML and JavaScript’s lunch for years. No longer. With improvements in JavaScript speed, the creation of browser agnostic libraries to simplify development, and the wide adoption of AJAX for asynchronous communication, it would seem that JavaScript is back.

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