Chris Herring

 Flash Developer

 London

Archive for January 2009

Puppet Magic

29/01/09

I’ve been a little hectic recently and have had this post sat in my drafts for a week.
It wasn’t long ago that I was sat reading an article in Creative Review about the demise of creativity within music videos. The article cited a number of obvious reasons for the demise, the reduction in the amount [...]

 

Bacon Butty

21/01/09

The over past couple of weeks, I’ve been residing between Bath and Bristol resting my knee before moving back to the smoke at the end of the week and perhaps best explains the randomness of this post.
As part of my knee rehabilitation I have noticed a slight increase in the amount of Bacon Butties in [...]

 

Mapping Music: Part 2

16/01/09

After getting slightly distracted with the makeover I gave this blog last week and getting stuck into other work this week, I managed to spend a few hours this morning working on my Google Maps and Last FM mashup. Not to much to report, although I did managed to calculate a chart for the most [...]

 

Swedish Armed Forces

10/01/09

The Swedish Armed Forces have released two campaigns within the last year, in order to recruit potential officers. Both feature a set of intriguing and testing mind games produced in Flash which have been inspired by parts of the recruitment tests carried out by the Swedish Armed Forces. Each site is individually very good, the [...]

 

Fact: no. 1

08/01/09

Playing about with my little project Mapping Music and found out that 1.527% of people listening to Sigur Rós on Last FM in Europe come from Iceland. Interesting

 

Blog redesign

07/01/09

A fresh new blog theme for the new year. I’ve spent a few hours building this new theme, and as you can its based upon the styles used at chrisherring.co.uk hopefully cleaner and easier to use then the last. There are a few minor changes still to make and a couple bugs to fix but [...]

 

Mapping Music: Part 1

05/01/09

Mapping music is the title of a little project I started over the weekend, hopefully over the forthcoming days I shall be blogging on its development. The idea is to use information gathered via Last FM and the visualize this geographically for Europe using the Google Maps API for flash. In doing so I’ll try [...]

 

Flasher Magazine

03/01/09

The premiere issue of Flasher Magazine is available to watch, complete with a design homage to San Franscriso finest skate zine. I enjoyed watching it, bring on issue duo and perhaps a UK Version.