Open up flash 8. My goodness, there’s a lot of stuff there. However, you only need to familiarize yourself with a few basic things, before you should be comfortable with your workspace.

In the following screenshot, I have three floating windows open- you need to have the same windows open, now. Read the rest of this entry »

CHAPTER ONE: SOFTWARE

There are three pieces of software that I have found indispensable for flash creation. The first, of course, is Flash 8.

This application will be the platform you use to create your flash animations, and export them for distribution. Read the rest of this entry »

As announced earlier this month, I had been invited to a conference titled “Under the Radar & Over the Top: Online Political Videos in the 2004 Election” put on by institute for Politics and Democracy on the Internet at George Washington University. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the past week, I’ve gotten quite a number of letters from folks- veterans and non-veterans alike- referring me to this odd little consumer item:

http://www.kbtoys.com/genProduct.html/PID/2431939/
ctid/17/place/aguc?_ts=n&ls=collec
t&_e=3f359&_v=3F3598BEURYaaB005BEFA563&_ts=y

Take a look- drink the idiocy in… Read the rest of this entry »

I dunno if ya’ll remember a character that played a memorable star media role during the invasion of Iraq. The Iraqi Information minister, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, made a name for himself by brazenly going before the cameras every day, and delivering constant glorious news about how Iraq was winning the war. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay- first off- I watched the MSM media, today, and the only mentions of Camp Casey, have been buried in reports about the “massive” pro-Bush rallies that have descended upon the area. CNN’s reportage (such as it is) of the incidents in Crawford, has been particularly inane. Read the rest of this entry »