I’ve been playing with augmented reality in Flash, aided by Saqoosha’s excellent FLARToolkit and Papervision 3D. Here at Stink Digital we decided to develop these experiments to do something fun for an ad in Contagious Magazine.
At first we planned to make a virtual Cannes Lion, along with some fireworks to fit in with the advertising festival which coincides with the issue. After having some problems getting the 3D model to work how we wanted and, moreover, deciding this idea was perhaps a bit too gimmicky I started playing with showing trending Tweets as 3D text. This worked quite well, but we then took it a step further to pull a live feed of all kinds of trending topics from various sources, including Flickr images. The result was a ‘What the internet is thinking’ app where every time you show the marker you get a new ‘thought’.
See it here:
http://www.stinkdigital.tv/makeitreal
Posted By }i{ on July 28, 2009
Web Designer Magazine asked if I’d like to contribute to a ‘Top 50 Professional Flash Tips’ feature for issue 160. I decided to big up the mighty PureMVC and a little tool I’ve been using recently called Thunderbolt that logs stuff in the Firebug console.
Posted By }i{ on July 20, 2009
Along with W+K, we’ve been helping Jack White’s new band The Dead Weather build interest in and broadcast a live concert over the www, sponsored by Nokia. My task was primarily to build a custom video player to be used to brooadcast the Akamai stream on the site, various blogs and on screens in record stores. It needed to be very lightweight and work at pretty much any size. I took the opportunity to create some nice reusable PureMVC classes for the streaming and player build. The player is also in use on the Stink Digital website.
View the live set here: www.fromthebasement.tv/live
Here are the source files for the Model side of things: VideoStreamProxies.zip
They are dependent on PureMVC and, in the case of the AkamaiConnectionProxy, on the Akamai connection package.
Posted By }i{ on July 3, 2009
Following the success of our Carousel site for Philips, we were asked to write a feature on the build for .NET Magazine. I contributed a tutorial on the basics of building a localisable Flash site, which was not project-specific, hadn’t been covered before and seemed about the right level for the audience. Even got my picture in there – fame at last! …well, not really, but was nice anyway 
Posted By }i{ on July 1, 2009