Searching for an old experiment of mine I just rediscovered a piece from 2001/2002 which I thought I had lost - it's a implementation of PONG in Flash 5 with a file size of 5K. Back then it was an submission for...

The lecture notes for my talk "The Blind Sketchmaker - exploring generative and evolutionary art with Flash" are now available on lectures.quasimondo.com. The AIR tools I demoed - Image Analyzer, Art Critque and Sketchmaker are not available yet. The visuals evolved by...

Before I hop into my plane to Boston for the Flashforward conference I wanted to show you a cool widget by Vuvox, a company that I have the pleasure to work with for the past months. What you see below is the...

I'm very happy about Yahoo/flickr's great move to implement crossdomain.xml on their flickr image servers. This finally allows to use the BitmapData.draw() command with images downloaded from flickr.com without having to route it through a proxy on your own domain first. For...

Lady Luck has drawn the two winners of a full-day ticket for the 9th flashconference which will take place this Friday in Stuttgart, Germany. The winners are: Patrick Schwab and Dominic Gräfen - congratulations!...

Yes, it's that time of the year again where you have the big chance to win one of two tickets (worth €100 each) for the fmx & 9th flashconference in Stuttgart, Germany on Friday, May the 4th and for the Electronic Arts...

In all my excitement about the arrival of my new Chumby I forgot to mention the most important thing: I would have never received one of those hadn't it been for the legendary negotiation skills of my man Shawn Pucknell. He managed...

Since many people asked me if they could see the illustrations of my Mashup Baby! lecture one more time I've uploaded the complete three sets - for USA, Asia & England - to my flickr acount: Of course I did not draw...

This morning started with a happy surprise: Islands Of Consciousness is among the four finalists in the "Original Sound" category of the Flashforward2006 Austin Film Festival. On Islands Of Consciousness I collaborated with the Ukrainian musician and composer Oleg Marakov who's concept...

For those interested in having another look at the slides from my talks at FiTC Toronto and fmx/flashconference Stuttgart here is the link to my collected lectures. The VJ tool itself will not be made accessible online but as I promised I...

The two lucky winners of my fmx/flashconference raffle are: Fabian Nöthe and Matthis Herrmann. Each of you will get a free four-day ticket for the fmx worth 185 Euro. Congratulations! And to all that have not won this time: I hope to...

Somewhere in Singapore there are now ca. 20 superstrong Neodym magnetic balls either driving around with a taxi or exploring the local sewers. Well, Mr. Tarbell - you should have better left them at home instead of wearing them as a wristband......

Jens Franke's excellent session on the Flashforum Tour about Flash usability issues inspired me to give the old "Flash breaks the back button, there is no deep-linking possible and there is no way to bookmark pages" problem another go. To make it...

I just read "Get Off The F*cking Freeway", an eye-opening article written by two eyewitnesses who describe how they survived the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A must read....

As we are approaching the coming of the next version of Flash, Macromedia has released the beta version of the new Flash Player 8 today. Of course the first thing that everybody wants to do now is to try out all the...

The two winners of a ticket for next week's flashconference in Stuttgart are: Katharina Klodt and Taufan (who doesn't have a last name as he's born in Indonesia, interesting, isn't it?) As everybody wrote really nice emails and had perfect reasons to...

Finally Ben Fry and Casey Reas have released the official Beta of Processing. Unlike the previous versions that were labeled "alpha" and only available on request, version 0085 is publicly available in the Processing download area....

As you can read all over the place by now Adobe is about to acquire Macromedia. What a surprise! Still don't know if I like it or not - but I really hope that Macromedia's great corporate culture will survive the merger....

In my personal top ten of the world's most disgusting companies this week's highest entry is Vodafone who almost managed to supersede Monsanto in their lead position. The reasons: greed and bad taste. What happened? (You can skip the now following rant...

It looks like someone has found a way to sneak past the new popup blocker mechanism of Windows XP SP2. The trick can be seen in action on http://www.malware.com/flopup.html. Note: I removed the direct link to this page as some visitors say...

Okay it looks like the "Wow google now indexes swfs!" news has somehow risen from the grave again. I wonder why nobody has yet objected to this. It is correct, Google does indeed index swf files, as much as it indexes PDFs,...

Finally the site for the European Flash Conference in Barcelona has been updated. Check it out....

With the advent of Windows XP Service Pack 2 which is expected to be released in September this year a new challenge is waiting for Flash developers: under the title "safer browsing" Microsoft will introduce some new security features into Internet Explorer....

Finally I'm allowed to announce it. This month was full of changes for me - after 6 great years I decided to leave the company I was co-founder of: coma2. For me it was about time to do pioneer work again. That's...

After reading Jonas Galvez' Viagra post I decided to take action myself. So I just opened my Spam Couture shop at Cafe Shops. My first two motives are following in the footsteps of the Oktoberfest classic "Sex Instructor - first lesson free":...

Bing! for (var i = 0 ;i<a.length;i+=8){ trace(String.fromCharCode(parseInt(a.substr(i,8),2))) } I couldn't help it....

Oliver Debon, creator of tools like SwiftGenerator, SwiftMP3 or Quake Video Maker has some ugly trouble going on with his former webspace provider. Under his former URL one only finds some text with some defaming allegations, which made me really wonder, because...

Now everybody is exicted about the new possibilites that the Flash 7 player has to offer: right click context menu, mouse wheel support etc. The problem is: it doesn't seem to work. Bokel found the reason: you have to change the internal...

Flash Player 7 Beta is here!! A first look at the release notes sounds promising: Finally the player checks for updates itself. Actionscript performance has been improved a lot Video performance and quality have been improved...

A minute ago Macromedia succeeded in positively surprising me: They finally installed an automatic email reply script! I just reported a little bug via their Bug Report/Wishlist form and expected it to vanish in this black hole as usual. At least this...

Using Shared Libraries (SL) in Flash is still quite an adventure, similar to crossing the Pacific Ocean on a surfboard. It theoretically works, but you will need good preparation and be ready to expect trouble. Unfortunately in the past SL were really...

Sorry for another non-Flash related post, but this one is too nice not to be told: as you might notice lots of the links in my left sidebar are suddenly missing. [UPDATE - I have repaired them now, so you can see...

I'm not a fan of birthday parties, at least when it involves myself. That must be the reason why I completely ignored that six days ago was Quasimondo's first anniversary. On June 12, 2002 I made my initial post which was utterly...

Today the Flashforward finalists for the Flash Film Festival in NYC have been revealed. Go over to their site to check them out and vote for the People's Choice I didn't check all of them, but deciding from a first view my...

As a lot of blogs already mentioned yesterday Aral Balkan's blog onRelease is closed down. My first thought was "finally they have hacked his site" - as we all know Aral has created quite a lot of discussion in the community by...

Living in a Flash-friendly environment you tend to forget that lots of hardcore programmers still think that Flash is a pretty evil thing. You just have to check out what these guys rant about. So it's a nice surprise to stumble over...

Finally the system.product() secret will be revealed - today in its FlashForward Keynote Macromedia will announce the new Macromedia Central, a new way to deliver Internet applications as Kevin Lynch announced on his blog. There are already areas on the Macromedia site...

Ha ha ha- they are not only slow in displaying flash... (I've got two of these overpriced "computers" myself, but I don't think that I will ever buy them again)...

For all those who still like to program the onClipEvent way Ted Patrick has discovered an undocumented Flash MX feature: there exist an onClipEvent(initialize) which gets fired before the onClipEvent(load) function. The question remains what this might be good for, currently the...

Now that's what I call a monday morning surprise: I just discovered that I made it into the Flashforward 2003 finalists with my AmazonExplorer application. I feel honored to be placed next to great creations like Josh Dura's Texteditor Component and Grant...

Yesterday I've been to the movie theatre to watch Bowling for Columbine and I can only recommend you to watch it, too. This documentary tries to explore why in the United States every year more than 11,000 people die at the hands...

I surrender. Please don't shoot. I'm not a bad person. See - white flag!...

What is DENG? Finally Claus Wahlers explains it in a language that is understandable also to normal people. Well, even if it looks pretty dull at the moment it is definitely WOW!...

I just came across a nasty "feature" of the setInterval function which almost gives me mystical feelings. This is not for the weak hearted. We'll be entering an area of phantom functions and lost pointers: Start the example and read on. We...

As probably 95% of all humanity I call my self being "creative". But there are these moments in life when this big problem is sitting before you, the clock is ticking and your head is completely drained of ideas how to solve...

I can't believe it. There is a whole site dedicated to the "Crying Boy" by J. Bragolin. Unfortunately it is Dutch only. A while ago I found this set of prints on the fleemarket and decided to collect this stuff. Now these...

Probably I look pretty stupid now because everybody else has known this for years but I didn't know this part of google yet: Google Zeitgeist gives you some interesting statistics about search trends, browser usage, operating systems and more. I wonder what...