Swimming Things

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See these little swimming things being born here.

Fighting Cock?

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Santa punching the Air

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What do mean, “where?”. Look, I’ll zoom in:

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Kate Moss helps out

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Put a load of these images into Photoshop on top of each other, went to organise the layers and found it like this.

Particular Painting, Painting Particularly

Having spent the last few days at FITC here in Amsterdam, excitedly listening to a lot of excited flash people talking excitedly about exciting stuff they’ve done, it’s about time I did something too. Last night I got busy with clever little particles I made back in November and some perlin noise to control their direction. So the particles do the painting and I just change how they behave.

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That strange oil painting-type look comes from a bug in the flash player. So it all looks a bit like an oil painting, except this one that looks like a psychedelic eye:

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So then I messed with a couple of values and suddenly the shape went a bit nuts and started drawing in burning neon.

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And it made a Fish/Tadpole thing:

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Rotate my email

And another thing… why can’t I turn my iPhone sideways-on when I’m reading an HTML email? To all intents and purposes it’s an identical view to Mobile Safari – especially when the email looks like the site it’s from – so I forget I’m in Mail and turn it sideways, but nothing happens. Then I get angry. Please fix this, Apple. Please fix it now.

Blow the whole joint up

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I originally had a go at this little flash experiment about 18 months ago, but it stayed pretty much hidden on my old site, so here you go – blow up famous places for fun! I really hope this doesn’t get me arrested and “rendered”, or whatever it’s called…