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An Old Article Not Up to Date and No One Needs
As of January 21st, Flash is dead. I made my career creating Flash (and Director!) interactions. I remember in Spring semester of 1998 staying up through the night to learn how to mimic the look of GaboCorp’s all Flash site.
Fast forward ten years and I had moved from agency work to being an internal designer at Black & Decker. I was generating dozens and dozens of instructional videos that got placed in online learning courses for the sales force. I was deep into learning AppleScript to automate different parts of work flows (mostly resizing graphics, converting audio, etc) and wondered if I could drop the videos I was making in Final Cut Pro and Compressor into a script that would convert to (at the time) standard FLV files. I finally found a solution using the traditionally Linux-based tool FFmpeg, it’s OSX shareware-version, and some AppleScript shell scripts. I wrote what I came up with at Using Applescript and FFmpeg (through ffmpegX) to create Flash Video Files (FLV).
One of my Favorite Examples of Kid-Centric Design
This set of wings is really a harness for outdoor adventure. I really like this example of design because it not only functions, but, it makes the target audience (children) interested in what it does (safety). Kids want to wear it because it is cool.
RT @emmahealyy: society if google docs default font was times new roman size 12 instead of arial size 11 https://t.co/5iPFEbnjpq
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Using Tiddly Wiki as a Research Tool
One of the most frustrating things as a researcher is keeping all of my sources and references organized. Fortunately, I’ve been using the BibTex format for some time and have minimized loosing sources once I have them. One of my colleagues at UMD posted this:
I do!
Each paper is a page (to collate \[\[context\]\]), and I identify "micropublications" (findings/claims that are contextualized) as blocks within these paper pages, then blockref them into outlines/notes where I synthesize ideas. Ex screenshot: pic.twitter.com/b7K2LdhZiD
2021 Goals
I hope that I am able to acheive these goals in 2021:
- Complete three design classes
- Build a large format 3D printer
- See Bison IRL
About time https://twitter.com/BaltCitySchools/status/1356282911541108740
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RT @ubaltmain: We’re lucky to have Wolf Pecher teaching our students. Check out his bio: https://bit.ly/3r0mu4W
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It’s disappointing @BaltCitySchools didn’t give the kids off today! With all the stress that kids have gone through this year, a snow day is the least you could do.
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There’s a lot of work being done at @ubaltmain by my colleague Wolf Pecher on this kind of pollution. Check out https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221355 @UBalt_ES @samdeanscience https://twitter.com/ElectRyanDorsey/status/1355888351803564034
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