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New Blog

2007-10-14T17:08:00.000-04:00

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Workshop with Anothy Eden

2007-09-08T13:22:00.002-04:00

On April 25th, Mindblossom hosted a Flash Gaming Workshop featuring Sydney-based Flash author Anthony Eden ( Snepo ) who was in town speaking at the FITC conference.Anthony discussed the following topics:Fundamentals (genres, paper proofing, multiuser, content management...)Nuts and Bolts (3rd party tools, methodologies, performance, security...)Getting Dirty with ActionScript(physics, AI, tile

Mindblossom Magic

2007-01-25T10:42:00.000-05:00

click here to watch a brief movie about our latest workIn late October 2006, I joined Mindblossom ( www.mindblossom.com ) as their new director of interactive media. We've been very busy lately producing highly interactive, cinematic experiences that entertain and track user activity. Here are a few of my favourite projects that we launched over the year.LANCER EARTHWe recently launched Lancer

Project: Flash Narrative Interviews

2007-01-13T13:52:00.000-05:00

The following interviews were conducted in 2003, and I think they're still interesting today so I decided to post them again. I asked the same 8 questions to 5 different artists -- Jay Lee (Swordsmen), Brooke Burgess and Ian Kirby (Broken Saints), Marc Keelan-Bishop (tvo-kids), Marcus J. Dickinson (diaries of war) -- who primarily use Flash as their media of choise to broadcast their message.8

Some recent sketches...

2006-10-27T17:22:00.000-04:00

Interview with Jamie Long

2006-10-11T23:55:00.000-04:00

INTERVIEW WITH JAMIE LONG ( www.r1dco.com )by brandon flowersdate: July 28/2002 B: You are multi-disciplined in web design, development, illustration, animation, and print -- but if there is one area which you tend to focus on? J: it always changes. i'll get really into action scripting in flash for a while and then i'll focus on animation and then something else. it's really based on the kinds

Myagi Interview with COCO

2006-10-11T23:54:00.000-04:00

FEATURE: COCO <-- www.visionaryunderground.comBY: ANDREW aka MYAGI <-- www.myagimusic.comDATE: AUGUST 2002M: How did the collective hook up?C: DJ FeelFree & I founded Visionary Underground in 1997. It began as an underground party outfit round London that then developed into a band/collective. DJ FeelFree was producing dance music and I had a photo/art background. We began doing VJ/DJ gigs

Some of my past events

2006-10-09T23:58:00.000-04:00

In 2002, I founded a non-profit art collective Deep Green Robots which threw several events to celebrate dance culture and eco-friendly technology. We produced a handful of events over the course of 2 years and folded in 2004. After putting together our annual Pear Tree Party, I've realized that I really miss producing events, and I want to something special this year or maybe in the spring. I

MSN World Tour // Post Mortem

2006-05-04T12:31:00.000-04:00

I've just rolled off the MSN World Tour project co-produced by Wunderman and Navantis. I was contracted by Navantis to lead the Flash team, integrate Flash with .NET, and write the client-side game logic.What Went Wrong:Unless you've produced a project like this before, the planning is next to impossible. On the surface, it seems like a straightforward contest but there all kinds of technical

Japanese Girls on Casual Gaming

2005-11-25T10:16:00.000-05:00

Designfest Presentation Notes // Saturday October 8, 2005Presented by Brandon FlowersHeadwinds Studio www.headwinds.net FLASH PRESENTION:click here to view my slides and video interviewNOTE: Use arrow keys to change slidesINTRO1.5 billion mobile devices in the world today, more than three times the number of PCs."The market for mobile content is set to be worth $42.8bn by the end of the decade,