Sprockets

My Flash artist dabs and squints:

Trial and error is right for an artist. Picture Renoir dabbing at his picture and stepping back to squint at it, over and over.

Drawing That worked for drawing and painting, for years.

Scripts That even worked for scripts, when those were ten-line scripts in ActionScript 2, and she could find an example to start from.

XML But now she buys components for the price of dinner and wine, and configures them with XML. XML is unforgiving. A little off, and you’re left with nothing, a wild nonsense. … Continue Reading

Working lately with a Flash artist on the far side of the earth, at twelve hours time difference. We Skype to exchange files, chat, talk live.

ActionScript 3 is traumatic to her. Flash was whimsical until lately, and she would dash together her own ten-line script now and then, copying an example she found somewhere, and altering it by trial and error. Trial and error is right for an artist. Picture Renoir dabbing at his picture and stepping back to squint at it, over and over. That worked for her ActionScript as well, until … Continue Reading

Worlds collide. The component builder (me) and the artist (with paint-stained fingers) look eye-to-eye at this over one long night.

Flash CMS. How is it done? How can it be done? How make a Flash site that extends to more and more of the same over time? As your client-list grows, say, and you have more of your best work to showcase, as does your client.

My artist shows me a beautiful Flash website done in NYC. She and I lived and worked in Manhattan for years, but she has gone to … Continue Reading