agitated Observer http://agitatedobserver.com Observations from the agitated one. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:54:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 One Minute Soundsculpture http://agitatedobserver.com/one-minute-soundsculpture/ http://agitatedobserver.com/one-minute-soundsculpture/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:54:18 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=402 Amazing piece of work by Daniel Franke apart of the  http://wearechopchop.com/ community of designers, motiongraphers, video / media artists working out of Berlin.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Love the nature of the video with the hand-held movement and organic lines and shapes forming and growing at the centre. Reminds me a little of the way BSG was shot with the rough style handling of the shoot and the way the 3D animation / universe played in that space.

Love the nature of the video with the hand-held movement and organic lines and shapes forming and growing at the centre. Reminds me a little of the way BSG was shot with the rough style handling of the shoot and the way the 3D animation / universe played in that space.

]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/one-minute-soundsculpture/feed/ 0 The not quite new ANZ logo http://agitatedobserver.com/the-not-quite-new-anz-logo/ http://agitatedobserver.com/the-not-quite-new-anz-logo/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:32:39 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=397 I know that it has been a couple of weeks now that the new ANZ logo was launched, but seriously what on earth were they smoking when they came up with this concept.

I’m guessing that it may be trying to represent people somehow in an abstract way, but to me it kind of looks like a birth canal. That probably says more about me than anything else but to go from what i believe to a strong existing identity to something that looks like it belongs in a sex education class seems more like a backwards step than a progressive movement, not to mention the cost of integration throughout the company which will cost to the sum of $15 million according to the news.com.au story linked.

Judging from some of the comments on the page and around the twitterverse, it hasn’t come off to a good start as yet. Maybe it will grow on people like some vaginal infection (I know, kind of crude but can’t get past that it still looks like a birth canal with the 2 legs in stirrups on either side)

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]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/the-not-quite-new-anz-logo/feed/ 1 Flash Word Counter http://agitatedobserver.com/flash-word-counter/ http://agitatedobserver.com/flash-word-counter/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:34:08 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=393 Here’s a little app I developed in Adobe Flash that generates list of word occurrences for any given text. To use it,  just copy and paste the text into the input field, click submit and the results will be displayed in a table which you then can copy the data into excel or wordpad.

I’m hoping to develop this further in the future so that its able to generate some interesting visualisations based on the results.

Please leave a comment if you have any ideas for improvement or notice any bugs.

]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/flash-word-counter/feed/ 1 Illustration Friday: Tango http://agitatedobserver.com/illustration-friday-tango/ http://agitatedobserver.com/illustration-friday-tango/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:52:32 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=391 Submission for this week’s Illustration Friday theme: tango. Illustrated in photoshop.

]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/illustration-friday-tango/feed/ 0 AS3: Random Colour between 2 colour values http://agitatedobserver.com/as3-random-colour-between-2-colour-values/ http://agitatedobserver.com/as3-random-colour-between-2-colour-values/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:13:34 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=379 Useful little snippet to generate a colour between 2 colour values in ActionScript 3

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import fl.motion.Color;

var color1:uint = 0x03e338;
var color2:uint = 0xbbe303;
var newColor:uint = Color.interpolateColor(color1, color2, randomHue);

private function _randomNumber(low:Number=NaN, high:Number=NaN):Number
{
    var low:Number = low;
    var high:Number = high;

    return Math.random() * (high - low) + low;
}
]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/as3-random-colour-between-2-colour-values/feed/ 0 Alphabet Connected http://agitatedobserver.com/alphabet-connected/ http://agitatedobserver.com/alphabet-connected/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:22:01 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=374 Type experiment for today:

The rest can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris-agiasotis/

]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/alphabet-connected/feed/ 0 Simple AS3 dynamic fonts class http://agitatedobserver.com/simple-as3-dynamic-fonts-class/ http://agitatedobserver.com/simple-as3-dynamic-fonts-class/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 00:23:45 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=368 Simple class to include dynamic fonts in your flash movie. You can either compile this from your fav AS editor or apply it to an FLA as the document class.

To access the fonts, all you will need to is load in the generated swf into your project and use the fontName value you specify in the class to apply the appropriate font.

It’s also good practice to limit the unicode range to characters you need. Adobe provides a good reference, flash-unicode-table.xml, which you can find inside the Flex SDK 2/frameworks folder.

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package {
   
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.text.Font;
   
    public class Fonts extends MovieClip {
        [Embed(source='C:/WINNT/fonts/DiCnBd.ttf', fontName='_dinBold', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+007A,U+00BB,U+00A9,U+2122,U+00AE')]  
        public static var _dinBold:Class;
        Font.registerFont(_dinBold);
        trace("_dinBold LOADED");
       
        [Embed(source='C:/WINNT/fonts/arial.ttf',fontName='_Arial', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+007A,U+00BB,U+00A9,U+2122,U+00AE')]  
        public static var _Arial:Class;
        Font.registerFont(_Arial);
        trace("_Arial LOADED");
       
        [Embed(source='C:/WINNT/fonts/arialbd.ttf', fontWeight= "bold",fontName='_ArialBold', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+007A,U+00BB,U+00A9,U+2122,U+00AE')]  
        public static var _ArialBold:Class;
        Font.registerFont(_ArialBold);
        trace("_ArialBold LOADED");
       
    }
}
]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/simple-as3-dynamic-fonts-class/feed/ 1 Infotoons by lunchbreath http://agitatedobserver.com/infotoons-by-lunchbreath/ http://agitatedobserver.com/infotoons-by-lunchbreath/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 00:46:52 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=365 Great series of infotoons from lunchbreath on flickr on various topics and themes.

]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/infotoons-by-lunchbreath/feed/ 0 Happy Mothers Day http://agitatedobserver.com/happy-mothers-day/ http://agitatedobserver.com/happy-mothers-day/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 11:39:16 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=356 “i’m a motherlover, you’re a motherlover, we should f**K each others mothers…” – Have to love those crazy kids. Keeps getting taken off youtube so i found this version over dailymotion:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Nice sequal to:

Click here to view the embedded video. ]]> http://agitatedobserver.com/happy-mothers-day/feed/ 0 Illustration Friday: Theatre http://agitatedobserver.com/illustration-friday-theatre/ http://agitatedobserver.com/illustration-friday-theatre/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:56:20 +0000 AGI http://agitatedobserver.com/?p=352 My submission for this week Illustration friday (well its actually last weeks since im a little late, but better late than never i guess).

Went for the operating theatre for this theme giving it a touch of drama in the process.

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