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So, my time has came.
My first installation.

It’s really simple drawing installation.
You get your iPhone and access the URL from your browser in the instruction on the projection, and just start drawing, and you can see it right away on the projection.
You don’t need to install any application.

You can check some videos here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106749376013168

So, I used HTML5 + JavaScript for the web application, PHP for the socket (I know, it’s not the best solution, but it was what I could’ve done at this time), C++ & OpenFrameworks for the application running for the projection and a MySQL database to store all the drawn data.

What I’ve learned from this?
- you don’t really need to learn Objective-C and pay hundreds to Apple to make some simple application
- don’t try to do what everyone is doing
- I know c++ now
- flash is slow even on AIR
- sockets on PHP works pretty well
- HTML5 won’t be replacing Flash any time soon
- people are afraid to do something different at work until someone does something new
- don’t try to do everything by yourself

Anyway, at the end, everything went well, personally the result was really good.

If you read this post before 29th of March, you can still go check it out at Hoxton Square.

Again, I didn’t update my blog for a long time.
So to catch up, here goes what happened in my life in the last months.

At beginning of November I started working at unit9 (http://www.unit9.com) a interactive media company based in London.

As first project, I did Guinness Bring it to Life (http://www.bringittolife.tv)
It’s a project that integrates Google Earth plug-in, Flash, Javascript, Facebook, and lot of other technologies.
Basically, you can build your planet with different terrains on Google Earth plug-in and bring life to your new planet.

Last week I went to play Carling in Kent with some friends.
It was amazing, much exciting than watching someone playing. You should play it when you have chance.

And, this week, I made a installation at unit9, my very first one, that I’ll explain on next post.

Yeah!! My 3rd FWA.
Now I have my name listed on FWA’s profile!

1st FWA: Sony Recyou (Non-grid)
2nd FWA: Panasonic Wave (Non-grid)
3rd FWA: Adhemas Batista website

Check it out there!

As promissed, here is the presentation I made at LFPUG in PDF format.

http://www.hellokeita.in/presentations/LFPUG/20090827/MakingMusicFP10.pdf

And the source files zipped with the demos I showed.

http://www.hellokeita.in/presentations/LFPUG/20090827/examples.zip
The contents are:
Example01-SineWaveExample: Simple example generating a sine wave
Example02-KeyboardExample: Example of a piano keyboard
Example03-WaveformExample: Changing the waveform of a sound
Example04-TimePitchExample: Changing pitch and tempo of a mp3
Example05-HeliumBalloon: Real time pitch shifting using Java

Enjoy!

UPDATE
LFPUG website uploaded the video of my presentation
http://www.lfpug.com/flash-10-making-music/

Tomorrow Aug 27th, I’ll be presenting at LFPUG (London Flash Platform User Group) about dynamic sound in Flash 10.

Feel free to pop-up there, it’s for free.

Here is the link:
http://www.lfpug.com/27th-august-2009-27082009/

Signing up, you’ll have a chance to get a Flash On The Beach ticket!

Time: 19:00 – 23:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: CosmoBar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PS (click for map)
Tube: Barbican/Farringdon

Romu is creating an easy to build AS3 Framework.
It’s called Soma, you can find it here: http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/somaui/

As he says, you really can build a basic Flash AS3 website in just 2 minutes, with deeplinking, menus and transitions.

Here is a demo page created with the framework:
http://www.soundstep.com/somaprotest/www/

And a step-by-step tutorial for Eclipse FDT users:
http://www.soundstep.com/blog/source/somaui/tutorials/getting-started/

Great work Romu!

My first Cannes, and also gold!

All the following awards are from Rec You.

Cannes
Cyber Gold – Interactive Campaigns

One Show
Silver – Integrated Branding Campaign / Interactive and Non-Interactive (pdf)

Clio Awards
Silver – Interactive / Innovative Use Of Technology
Shortlist – Interactive / Fresh Approach
Shortlist – Content & Contact / Personal Items

D&AD
Nomination – Online Advertising/Digital Advertising Campaign

Asia Pacific Advertising Festival
Best – Campaign for Integrated Cyber Campaign

87th The Art Directors Club
Merit – Advertising Interactive/New Media Innovation and Development

Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards
Gold – Website / Campaign website
Gold – Integrated campaign
Silver – Advertising / Banner
Nomination – Advertising / Other Interactive Ads

Congratulations for all the people involved, and also to Uniqlock for getting almost all the Grand Prix of the world.

Finally, a release.

http://www.recyou.jp

It’s not my first work here in Japan, but I assume it’s my debut project.
It’s a website for the new Sony walkman. People here in Japan uses the word Oneseg(One segment) for devices that have multi-uses.
Actually, I don’t know what this walkman is capable, but it looks like a walkman that you can watch tv broadcasts and record it.

The flash stills a little heavy processing, actually I didn’t have much time to improve it.
I’m using Papervision3D on the ‘G’ Grid Mode. Actually I made plenty of examples… maybe we will update with new Papervision3D views.
Clicking on ‘S’, you can upload you picture and than the magic does the rest, and your picture will show up singing. And also, if approved, your singing picture will be broadcasted on Japanese TV.

Anyway, enjoy it.

Amazing website was made by my friends from Gringo.nu and Cutwater.
Also the content is great, by Michel Gondry.
Must check it out.