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BIO
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
short videos on Marshall McLuhan
http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?74-342-1-74
A series of short videos, arranged chronologically, on Marshall McLuhan.
ja
A series of short videos, arranged chronologically, on Marshall McLuhan.
ja
looking for audio by Jr. Bush, Hussein, Blair, and bin Laden
I'm looking for audio of Jr. Bush, Hussein, Blair, and bin Laden.
Does anyone know of an audio archive containing infamous sayings by these 'leaders'?
There really should be one, if there isn't, on the net.
ja
Does anyone know of an audio archive containing infamous sayings by these 'leaders'?
There really should be one, if there isn't, on the net.
ja
Re: Re: Windows for Shockwave 3.0 review
> so true, so true....and (congratulations, jim, on this review, btw), macromedia has
> its eye on rivalling those that make the development environments (i.e.
> microsoft---no, the rumors weren't true, no microsoft/macromedia merge)=====god knows
> flash mx, with it's UI components, has added a whole buncha stuff that looks quite
> familiar to anyone whose ever used controls in visual basic or visual c+++----
'Development environments for what?' is an important question here. Microsoft offers development
tools for several environments, including the .net stuff, I guess, for the net, but my
understanding is that those tools are fairly business-specific (as opposed to art-centred), ie,
they are for retrieving business data and manipulating it, conducting transactions, and so on,
and I wouldn't be surprised if they require the Microsoft PC browser. In other words, they are
corporate tools addressed to an audience with dollars. How many net.artists use .Net Visual
Studio?
I don't see Macromedia seriously competing there, don't see them trying too hard either. Flash
has some form controls now and Cold Fusion is heading in that direction, but it looks like it is
small business oriented, not enterprise level industrial corporate Oracle and Application Server
fortified blah blah.
I have used Director since version 7 (it's at 9 (or MX)) now, and the feature set has changed
considerably. But the sort of things that have been introduced during this time are enhanced
audio capabilities, 3D, Real Media import abilities, Flash import abilities, multi-user server
functionality (used mostly for games) and that sort of thing, ie, not much better database
connectivity (although there is an XML unit for it), not e-commerce functionality. In other
words, they are not striving to turn Director into a business application development
environment. It is unexpectedly and perhaps even beautifully and certainly improbably
art-centred toward synthesis of arts, media, and programming with subtle granular control and
enough processing speed to be interesting.
The engineers who work on Director at Macromedia (the few who are left) are not out of touch
with the lists devoted to discussion of Director. There are several lists and different
engineers follow different lists, mostly the smaller ones that have a sense of 'community'
rather than the huge lists where you wouldn't couldn't read all the posts.
So I see Macromedia in a different light than Microsoft. Microsoft is a behemoth of industry and
has significant involvement in the Dept. of Defence. Macromedia is a flower child in comparison.
Not to say that it is a business of sweetness and light. But compared with Microsoft it is.
Director came from the Mac world in 1987 and was Mac-only for many years. You can still open up
source code in both the Mac and the PC. And of course .dcr's run on Mac and PC (though not
Linux, unfortunately).
The way to not compete with Microsoft is to do things that are fun. Microsoft doesn't go there.
They used to have a Flash-like program called, er, I think it was 'Liquid Image' in 97 but it
didn't last. I'm not sure how they're doing with Soft Image, which they purchased from
Montreal's Daniel Langlois, who started the Daniel Langlois Foundation with that money. Probably
they're not doing well with it either. They're dangerous with an OS, a database, and a browser,
but give them something artistically interesting and it seems like they're just lost. I just
visited their site and looked at their list of products. There's stuff like Flight Simulator and
games, but I don't see anything like Flash or Director concerning multimedia. There's Xbox, but
I'm under the impression that you need a team of C++ developers to make games for that platform.
So they can address the kid's entertainment field, but that doesn't interest me much. So much
warnography for the little warrior.
ja
> its eye on rivalling those that make the development environments (i.e.
> microsoft---no, the rumors weren't true, no microsoft/macromedia merge)=====god knows
> flash mx, with it's UI components, has added a whole buncha stuff that looks quite
> familiar to anyone whose ever used controls in visual basic or visual c+++----
'Development environments for what?' is an important question here. Microsoft offers development
tools for several environments, including the .net stuff, I guess, for the net, but my
understanding is that those tools are fairly business-specific (as opposed to art-centred), ie,
they are for retrieving business data and manipulating it, conducting transactions, and so on,
and I wouldn't be surprised if they require the Microsoft PC browser. In other words, they are
corporate tools addressed to an audience with dollars. How many net.artists use .Net Visual
Studio?
I don't see Macromedia seriously competing there, don't see them trying too hard either. Flash
has some form controls now and Cold Fusion is heading in that direction, but it looks like it is
small business oriented, not enterprise level industrial corporate Oracle and Application Server
fortified blah blah.
I have used Director since version 7 (it's at 9 (or MX)) now, and the feature set has changed
considerably. But the sort of things that have been introduced during this time are enhanced
audio capabilities, 3D, Real Media import abilities, Flash import abilities, multi-user server
functionality (used mostly for games) and that sort of thing, ie, not much better database
connectivity (although there is an XML unit for it), not e-commerce functionality. In other
words, they are not striving to turn Director into a business application development
environment. It is unexpectedly and perhaps even beautifully and certainly improbably
art-centred toward synthesis of arts, media, and programming with subtle granular control and
enough processing speed to be interesting.
The engineers who work on Director at Macromedia (the few who are left) are not out of touch
with the lists devoted to discussion of Director. There are several lists and different
engineers follow different lists, mostly the smaller ones that have a sense of 'community'
rather than the huge lists where you wouldn't couldn't read all the posts.
So I see Macromedia in a different light than Microsoft. Microsoft is a behemoth of industry and
has significant involvement in the Dept. of Defence. Macromedia is a flower child in comparison.
Not to say that it is a business of sweetness and light. But compared with Microsoft it is.
Director came from the Mac world in 1987 and was Mac-only for many years. You can still open up
source code in both the Mac and the PC. And of course .dcr's run on Mac and PC (though not
Linux, unfortunately).
The way to not compete with Microsoft is to do things that are fun. Microsoft doesn't go there.
They used to have a Flash-like program called, er, I think it was 'Liquid Image' in 97 but it
didn't last. I'm not sure how they're doing with Soft Image, which they purchased from
Montreal's Daniel Langlois, who started the Daniel Langlois Foundation with that money. Probably
they're not doing well with it either. They're dangerous with an OS, a database, and a browser,
but give them something artistically interesting and it seems like they're just lost. I just
visited their site and looked at their list of products. There's stuff like Flight Simulator and
games, but I don't see anything like Flash or Director concerning multimedia. There's Xbox, but
I'm under the impression that you need a team of C++ developers to make games for that platform.
So they can address the kid's entertainment field, but that doesn't interest me much. So much
warnography for the little warrior.
ja
Windows for Shockwave 3.0 review
Chuck Neal of mediamacros.com has written a review of Windows for Shockwave 3.0 at
http://mediamacros.com/item/item06687216 .
In authoring environments like C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, etc, there is no time line
(unlike Director and Flash) and dev takes place essentially window by window, or menu by menu,
and is less like a 'movie' than a 'flowchart'. Windows for Shockwave is toward net-based
software art that can use both the 'movie' and the 'flowchart/application' paradigms as the
occassion requires.
ja
http://mediamacros.com/item/item06687216 .
In authoring environments like C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, etc, there is no time line
(unlike Director and Flash) and dev takes place essentially window by window, or menu by menu,
and is less like a 'movie' than a 'flowchart'. Windows for Shockwave is toward net-based
software art that can use both the 'movie' and the 'flowchart/application' paradigms as the
occassion requires.
ja