Irreverent
Back to My Childhood
Lady Gaga fans and Olympic Games enthusiasts alike already know the style of the 1980′s has sleazed its way back to the top. This week Nike and eBay…
Obligatory Japan Post #1
While American company icons petered out after Spot and the Noid, Japanese businesses have kept their mascot coffers full for the last 20 years…
I played it for the soundtrack
Our team got to do some screen-takeover creative for the impending release of the long-awaited Duke Nukem 3D, and from the nostalgic ‘games we miss’ conversation that inevitably ensued …
Suckerlunch
Zach Snyder’s Sucker Punch promises to be one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind since the club sandwich.
Much like 300, the majority of the cinematography will be digital, but there seems to be more focus on thigh-highs and midriffs …
Thinking fourth dimensionally
Ever since Ford put a Cylon face on all its vehicles we knew we’d reached a cultural Sci-Fi saturation point. I thought I’d take a peek back and see what other Sci-Fi-inspired gems made the transition from media to market …
Epic is the new Zombies
If you saw Jane McGonigal’s talk on gamer potential or on The Colbert Report last week, or the Superbowl Kia Optima 60-second spot, or caught last night’s Glee, you know what is come. “Epic” is the new zombies …
Superbowl Time
We all know the only reason to sit through the rest of a football game is for the Superbowl commercials.
This year I’ve come up with an ingenious and overtly nerdy commercial rating system, which maps directly onto the HSB color model so each commercial can be captured by a single hexadecimal value …
Engaged
Problem with DoubleClick Studio API v2?
Anyone else seeing unlikely compile errors when running DoubleClick’s API version 2 for the first time? Remove this folder completely and the new Studio API classes should work.
“Flash” is a Four Letter Word
Here’s to you, .swf, and may you live as long as my sweet, cuddly Glo Worm…
It’s not my trick, Michael
We’ve introduced some magic navigation to the Signal. On the latest versions of Safari and Chrome or the Firefox 4 release candidate, you’ll see the new left and right arrows alongside the content …
Something wicked-bad this way comes
I want to present a jQeury plugin we’re working with some Drawven style. It makes use of the canvas element to allow dynamic text ragging like in a magazine …
Why AS3 gives me the warm fuzzies
Sometimes we get media specs that stipulate Flash Player 8, AS2, and this makes me think there is much work to be done spreading the word about why it is time to switch to AS3.
Action Script 2.0 was useful for its time, but now that 99.9% of all computers have Flash Player 9 or higher, and that sites like YouTube have already been requiring Flash 10 for some time, I think the moment has come to let the old timer go and stamp the RIP2.0 marker above its resting place …
CS5 Becomes Self-Aware
If you’re using the latest release of Photoshop and haven’t found the Content-Aware Fill, you will now start. Resizing background assets to fit the tower and landscape banner sizes had been an extra hour or so of rubber stamping and smoothing out lighting. Then CS4 brought us Content-Aware Scale and now CS5 has basically robbed this task of its value. See irrefutable data …
James Cameron eat your heart out
I’ve been jealous of someone’s house, someone’s job, someone’s lunch, and especially someone’s Halo rank, but the caliber of creative talent here at Intersect had not prepared me to become jealous of a banner. That day has come …
A framework for those still alive
Much as GLaDOS has taught us to appreciate the delicacy of pastry, we can as well spend some time appreciating the application framework CakePHP.
CakePHP is designed upon a Model-View-Controller architecture. Coming from a background of Flash and creative, the idea might even be new, but a definite lifesaver when the requirements of an application become larger than a simple banner ad.