Monthly Archives: April 2007

Yugo Nakamura

From yugop.net/info/:

Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, U.S.A and Europe. Some artworks from his personal website: yugop.com (http://yugop.com/) have recenly been shown at Center Pompidou (Paris), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Design Museum (London). His commercial works have received many international awards including Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and NY ADC.

Links:
http://yugop.com/
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/yugo-nakamura
http://www.designboom.com/portrait/flash.html

Yugo Nakamura

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Joshua Davis

Joshua Davis is one of the leading generative art and net art authors. One of his main tools is Flash.

From Wikipedia:

Joshua Davis was the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category “Net Excellence” and has exhibited his works at the Tate Modern (London), the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Design Museum (London), le Centre Pompidou (France), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), PS.1 MoMA (New York), among others

Links:
http://www.joshuadavis.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Davis_(web_designer)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/joshdavis.html

Joshua Davis

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Net Art links

Net Art galleries:

Tate:
http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/

Whitney Museum:
http://artport.whitney.org/

Net Art (and new media art) portals:

Rhizome
http://www.rhizome.org/

Turbulence
http://www.turbulence.org/

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Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

These links contextualize ActionScript within OOP and Scripting languages.

Wikipedia’s article on Object-Oriented Programming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

Related link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_languages

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Directories of reference websites

Some directories with awarded and benchmark sites:

Favourite Website Awards
http://www.thefwa.com/

Linkdup
http://www.linkdup.com/

Adobe “site of the day” archive
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=sotdarchive&loc=en_us

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Flash online resources

Some links to sites with tutorials and resources about Flash:

http://www.flashkit.com/

http://www.actionscript.org/

http://www.ultrashock.com/

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FWA: “Most influential Flash Site of the Decade”

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Flash, the website Favorite Website Awards (FWA), in conjunction with Adobe, ran a poll to establish what the most influential Flash website has been beteweem 1996-2006.

You can find out the winner for each year, and for the decade, here:
http://www.thefwa.com/flash10/finalres.html

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Flash history and anniversary

Some links about Flash history and 10th anniversary:

Adobe’s Flash Anniversary pages

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_anniversary.html

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/special/flashanniversary/

Wired – Flash turns 10
http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2006/08/71558

Flash Magazine article
http://www.flashmagazine.com/413.htm

Jon Gay’s History of Flash page
http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/

Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_Flash

Flash 10 Years

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Some links to Adobe’s Flash tutorials:

Video tutorials:

Getting started with ActionScript 3.0 video
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0130

Creating a Document class using ActionScript 3.0
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0129

Creating interactive content for mobile devices
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0267

Other Tutorials:

Flash 8 Best Practices
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash8_bestpractices.html

Migrating from Flash 8 to Flash CS3 Professional
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3_migration.html

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Adobe’s main Flash pages

Flash product page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/

Flash Developer Center:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/

Flash Design Center:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Flash&go=Go

Adobe Flash CS3

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