When I see a heavily Eastern European traditional ensemble, a dirty group of musicians, I always figure on an audience of other musicians. Ever since I worked the art gallery racket, selling mass-produceable hotel art to business majors, I don’t try selling skill to laypeople. Part of it is that it takes a feel for something to appreciate it. That’s one of the two reasons authors don’t read Danielle Steele. The other is that an artist approaches a medium to learn, interact and personally grow. A housewife wants an escape. T-Bone Burnett said that music is not for everybody. By that token life is not for everybody. If you can’t handle your life, the entertainment industry offers escape. And if you’re hooked on it, death comes quicker.
What I’m getting to is that these guys are hot. What floored me was their audience of Indy hipster kids. Either something revolutionary is tuning the tastes of the cool kids or else it’s just that Hawk & Hacksaw’s singer used to be in an Indy rock group. No matter. Hawk and a Hacksaw pounded down all the fierce, instinctively danceable, tear-sweet rhythms. And the throngs began hopping, clogging, clapping. I want my tribe, clan, and small army. I want it back from The Man.
the golden compass - the sibs suggested we watch it and i was all like ‘what shit. i don’t want to watch no golden compass.’ and then i tried to think of why the title sounded so familiar anyway and i remembered godiva saying something about a talking polar bear so i agreed to watch the movie. it was pretty boring until there was iorek byrnison and then the movie was just awesome. iorek made my insides quiver and it was very much the same feeling when i saw aslan in narnia.
and i fell in love with iorek when he looked at lyra all funnily and said in his sexy hart hart booming voice: you want to ride me? i go faster without armor.
and in my heart, i was mumbling under my breath: yes, i want to ride you! god, get rid of that damn armor then! let me ride you, iorek! i want to ride you!
iorek byrnison is the handsomest polar bear i ever did see and i know when i saw aslan, i said i was going to marry a lion even if it kills me. well, no more. i’m going to marry a polar bear. i will marry a polar bear even if i freeze to death!
(found this online and have lost the original posting. please provide author info if you have it.)
needed to build a monumental video game app in as2. have always used as2 on an as-needed basis, but decided this time to operate on it. open it up. see how it works. or doesn’t work. dragged as2 screaming into the year 2008. into the light.
the utility classes i found, modified, or extended are useful for anyone coming from an object-oriented background:
- DocumentUtil allows you to specify a Document class (aka Main class). :: Ryan Taylor @ boostworthy.com
- BezierTween creates beziers using little phrases that even Flash 7 can compile. :: Felix Turner @ airtightinteractive.com
- MovieClipBubbler bubbles as2 MC events. it is not simpler to use than an Event Broadcaster. it does have performance benefits over an Event Broadcaster. :: Ralf Bokelberg @ helpqlodhelp.com
- Hitbox is an essential extension of MovieClipBubbler, at least in concept. you should take my implementation and twist it to your ends. using Hitbox avoids having to draw zero-alpha’d Hit areas on all your MovieClips. in simplest execution, the MovieClip in your Library links to Hitbox (rt-click/Linkage/’Export for ActionScript’/Base Class).
