HTML 5 Video Report

January 27, 2012

Long Tail Video keeps a close eye on how HTML5 and video are working or not working and are kind enough to publicize their findings to the public. Check out this great documentation of the latest and greatest concerning the future of online video!

Some great info there and their sources are pretty cool too! Check out Stat Counter for browser and OS statistics.

OH…speaking about how flash is on it’s way out! I just wrote this nifty little script to time how long something goes on for. Best part is it’s not only made in Flash, but it’s also Action Script 2.0! Too much fun indeed, what a way to buck the system. Check out the timer, it gets angry after half an hour. If you know a little about coding and you’ve got Flash CS4 or higher feel free to download the .fla file and make your own changes.

Lost in the woods.

January 24, 2012

I’d call it “A good day for wolf.”

I remember this set being slightly odd as a kid, but like many children just thought it was one of those ‘adult things’ that I’d eventually understand. Like innuendos, wish I never learnt about those. Now everything is an innuendo. I digress, the box was normal enough, it does indeed come with everything on the front, and a few pieces you just can’t see in the photo, mostly small flowers and plants and a wolf den (it’s just a massive hunk of plastic with a cave like hole in it. oh yeah, and a bone to chew on!)

Now, as an adult, when I saw this in the store started thinking about all the adventures I’d imagined about being chased by that wolf, bitten by it, surviving its attacks and then going back into the woods dispite my playmobile man loosing an arm and then fighting that rabid beast to the bitter end (who loves action movies?)

I remember hours and hours of good times with that play set…so I picked it up and looked closely at the box. I thought surely now that I’m an adult I’ll be able to figure out what the concept is…but to no avail. I can’t say I understand this one at all. It comes with a wolf, a little girl and a tonne of foliage and flowers and logs and trees and the aforementioned wolf den (and a bone). It’s not a classic fairy tale either…the little kid is not wearing a red cloak, nor guarding sheep, nor are any little pigs involved, nor is his name Peter with his own built in orchestral soundtrack…it’s just a kid and a wolf.

I bought the set immediately.

Here is some wallpaper for an 1920 x 1080 resolution monitor.

There was another set there with just a few plants, the same kid and a brown wolf, but it didn’t come with the wolf den or the bone, but had a chainsaw for some reason. The weird thing was there wasn’t an adult figure that came with the set, just a small child (too small to life a chainsaw like that) and the wolf. Like the kid was left behind by their negligent lumberjack father (or mother) and this wolf just happened along? It’s almost like a contemporary version of the jungle book or something…

Maybe that’s it! No wait…chainsaw… don’t remember Rudyard Kipling talking about a chainsaw…should have bought that set too.

Duck Poop Panorama.

January 18, 2012