[NetBehaviour] Residency Responses number 2

[Lewis LaCook]

flash has been horribly maligned--it's a cool
animation tool, sure enough, but the combination of
actionscript and the IDE itself make for an
interesting combination--know any other animation
tools that allow for such interactivity?

i've grown a bit dissatisfied with flash, though,
truth be told---java seems to offer a richer set of
methods for reactivity, but it's a big steep hill,
learning a language that allows for just about no
procedural code--

but flash is a unique and interesting medium--

bliss
l


--- Jason Nelson <newmediapoet at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ruth and all,
> 
> Yeah there certainly has been heaps of talk about
> flash as an art/animation/web tool. The basic reason
> I
> use it, is that I am sloppy, I leave off details,
> include misspellings in my work, leave links dry and
> all the other signs of a mind gone off to another
> world for vacation. And with hard coding, with
> DHTML,
> javascript and all the other fancy fancies, I would
> spend hours searching for these small imperfections,
> these missing parcels and potions. So at least with
> flash I can check the actionscript and all. 
> 
> Really any work isnt about the technology, and
> shouldnt be about the tool. I you use a shovel, when
> you dig it leaves a shovel shape. But to use the
> shovel as an artistic tool or killing implement, the
> idea is to leave the shovel behind, as if the hole
> just appeared with aid if implement, or head crushed
> simply by air pressure.  
> 
> Of course people will look at this work and say. Oh
> that is flash. Only because there isnt another tool
> like it out there. I do think many things look too
> flashy, but things also look to photoy, or soundy,
> or
> texty. Really....it is and always will be about the
> content. 
> 
> As far as other artists. I do exchange flas quite a
> lot with other people. This makes play and learning
> terribly easy, and I love swimming within another's
> net space. You can tell heaps about other people by
> the way they organize their libraries, the way they
> name layers, how they use objects, where they hide
> things etc....there is a sociological essay there
> somewhere.....hm....maybe I can get Marco media to
> fund it.
> 
> Lastly, Let me add that Flash is like a series of
> magic tricks...the hidden and illusion are much
> better
> pals than the engine jockeys filling up grocery
> store
> parking lots on Saturday nights. I could use a snow
> cone. I like grape.
> 
> cheers, Jason
> 
> --- Ruth Catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've been taken a look back through Jason Nelson's
> > residency. What a 
> > diverse and deep labour of love.
> > 
> > I searched into each interface for the behavioural
> > model it proposed I 
> > adopt- where the rewards lay, how those rewards
> were
> > elicited  (like a 
> > change of expression in a baby's face in response
> to
> > a smile) and then 
> > indications of identities of the artists. Every
> > decision became part of 
> > building a portrait of a group of people.
> > 
> > I'm drawn to the pieces that that connect words
> and
> > architecture- ley's 
> > tree poem, praying in the suburbs and daily's
> inner
> > and inner space- or 
> > are they all getting muddled now. Then something
> > completely different - 
> > Golan's and de Pinto's faces smiling under my
> mouse
> > strokes, like half 
> > washed away murals.
> > 
> > One thing I'd like to hear more about though Jason
> > is your relationship 
> > with the Flash software and perhaps with other
> > artists who work with 
> > Flash. What, if any do you feel are the
> > strengths/limitations of the 
> > software on your explorations of
> interface/creature
> > creation?
> > I know it may be well trodden territory for some
> but
> > I don't think I've 
> > seen you write about it. What about other people
> on
> > the list....?
> > 
> > cheers
> > Ruth
> > 
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