Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with Flash
09/12/2009
2009 Mobile Excellence Awards – Finalist
Fanbase Mobile is now a finalist for the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards. We’ve been included in the Best Adapted or Companion Program category along with DirectTV and Zannel. Congrats to our partners at Agency.net who built the Flash Lite app for us. Check out our nomination here.
06/29/2009
Marcus Buck Photography
Do yourself a favor and dig into this simple Flash website featuring the beautiful photography of Marcus Buck. I highly recommend checking out his series of photographs showing the outlines that buildings leave after they have been torn down. To get there click “Freie Arbeiten” then “Restarchitektur”. Such beautiful images.
05/08/2009
How to use Twitter’s RSS Feeds in Flash without the Twitter API
Due to security changes by Twitter, Flash files not residing on the Twitter.com servers cannot directly access the RSS feeds of Twitter users. I’ve seen dozens of posts around the net regarding these changes and found a simple way to get around the restrictions using php. The issue – Flash cannot pull data from a [...]
03/31/2009
Facebook Actionscript 3 APIs
Facebook and Adobe have partnered to create open source Actonscript 3 APIs, making it easier to create Facebook Apps using Flash. Check out the article on Adobe’s Devnet. Download source from Google code. Check out some great examples.
03/31/2009
Crayon Physics
This game looks incredible. You draw shapes on the screen and they instantly interact with eachother. Trust me, only seeing this video will do it justice. Check it out here.
12/18/2008
Fanbase Included in list of top 200 Music Startups
Fanbase has been included as one of the top 200 Music Startups for 2008. It’s amazing to be recognized not only as a record label, but to be in the company of so many amazing technology companies. It makes me proud to be a part of a group that can cross the line between the [...]
12/06/2008
Connecting Fans with Bands
I was invited by Adobe to talk at their 2008 Max designer/developer conference as part of a new track of sessions geared towards business and strategy. My presentation was entitled “Connecting Fans with Bands” and is now available on Adobe TV. The video has the audio from the presentation overlaid on top of my Powerpoint [...]
10/22/2008
Featured Speaker at the Adobe CS4 Launch Event in NYC
Tomorrow I will be demoing the new features of Flash, Dreamweaver and Device Central the Adobe Creative Suite CS4 launch event in New York City. At Atlantic we’ve been working very closely with several teams at Adobe and will be showing off some of our new work made possible by CS4 – specifically around the [...]
05/15/2008
SWFObject 2.0
SWFObject 2.0 improves greatly upon version 1.5 by adding some fundamental changes to how the Flash embedding technology works. Instead of having an all Javascript embed, and a HTML backup, there is inline object code to help degrade more gracefully in browsers with Javascript support disabled. Also there is no ugly, cumbersome js code in the [...]
05/14/2008
WordPress Based Flash Sites
We’ve been using WordPress at Atlantic Records to power several high profile sites, and my designers and I have been lamenting the lack of WordPress Flash integration. Tim Wilson at tvwonline has an elegant solution to this issue. He’s created a project called PressConnect that allows PHP and Flash to communicate to build Flash based [...]
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