Sooo, figured it out, yet? No, well the answer is pretty cool: Check it out!

So what do you need?

• 2 plastic bottles
• duct tape
• water
• soap
• Lots of towels… You’ll need them.. Believe you me.

Cool eh? Here’s Lyntje making one too.

As we were having so much fun, we made some more photos!

If you want to see more pictures, hit this link to view the full set on Flickr.
Feel free to do the same and post some pictures too!

All photos were made with iPhones using Hipstamatic, Quadcamera and CrossProcess. The video’s were shot using the 8mm Vintage Camera app.

This is what came out this morning at 6:46AM

These are my very first (real) steps I’m taking in 3D. I’m having more fun than ever. I could tell you all about it but my guess is nobody cares, so let’s just skip that and jump right into the business: 3 little tests/experiments…

Falling balls

This was my first render of a video. I wanted to see how much was involved to actually export the video and how much could go wrong on first try. As it turns out: Easy peasy (and nothing went wrong)!

Throwing cube

The video above took my iMac about 10 hours of rendering. I figured giving the Cinema4D Net Renderer a try couldn’t be a bad idea. I hooked up my old Dell XPS, my MacBook and got going: 3 Core2Duo powered machines ready to render another little toy scene (don’t mind the little glitch halfway )

Abstract shapes

The above took about 3 hours and 30 minutes to render about 450 frames. Yea, my mind was blown. That’s incredible! Seen as all 3 my machines are almost equally powerful, rendertimes go down by 66%!
Now I knew what the power of this Net Render thing was I figured I should give it a real job. For starters I let it render these 1920 x 1200 images. Took about 2 hours to render all of them.

There’s more of those on my Flickr page. Let me know if you like any of them, what you would’ve done differently and where I went wrong. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

Oh and by the way: While you are reading this (assuming you are reading this not too long after I published it ) I should be rendering something pretty cool, so watch this space for updates!

I think it’s a creative idea… However their complicated way of explaining what they did kinda makes it look harder than it actually is (which is never a good thing).

Anyway: seeing the above reminded me about a little experiment I did about a year ago. I created a Flash movie that accesses the webcam and does some bitmapdata magic. The result is realtime light painting!

“What does that look like?”
See below!

“Can I try?”
Yes you can! Just make sure you’re in a dark room.

Feel free to show some of your results!

Update:

A friend of mine asked me to share the source, so here goes! Click!
(I really should start sharing my source right away… I’m way too lazy)

Near the end of June, I started a little experiment, just for fun, which would just immitate fridge magnets. I wanted to make it a multi-user experience. So everybody hitting the page would see the changes that are being made realtime. I built the first version and was quite happy.

But a few days ago, it struck me: I can just use the code I used for that experiment and port it to the iPad using the iPhone Packager (which comes with Flash CS5). So I did!

Although I had to change some of the code (loading settings files, etc), I was actually able to build this application rather quickly. I also added a multi-room feature, so everybody can have their own fridge with magnets
So you can now actually leave your boy/girlfriend a message on a virtual fridge (with no food in it) and then mail him/her the link! He/She can then rearrange the letters and leave you a message in return; Fridge-magnet style! That’s geeky, right!?

About the application

‘Spread the word’ is both an iPad and a browser application.
The clients are built using Flash Builder (for the browser app) and Flash CS5 (iPad app). The multi-user support is a Red5 application.

‘Spread the word’ online

You can view the application in the browser by hitting the following URL:

http://spreadtheword.nocreativity.com

If you want to have your own fridge, just add ‘?myOwnFridge’ (replace ‘myOwnFridge‘ with a name of your choice). For example

• http://spreadtheword.nocreativity.com?test
• http://spreadtheword.nocreativity.com?mySecretRoom
• http://spreadtheword.nocreativity.com?imOnAHorse

‘Spread the word’ for iPad

Currently the iPad application is only available though my Cydia repo. I will however be trying to get it into the Apple App Store (I know about 3.3.1, I’m still giving it a shot ). The app also supports rooms, so feel free to go crazy (but be nice, there’s kids on the internet )

If you want to install the iPad application you need a jailbroken iPad. If you haven’t added my repository to your Cydia sources yet, follow these instructions:

1. Open Cydia on your jailbroken iPad
2. Go to the ‘Manage’ tab
3. Tap ‘Sources’
4. Tap ‘Edit’ in the upper right corner
5. Tap ‘Add’ in the upper left corner
6. Fill in the following URL: ‘http://nocreativity.com/cydia’
7. Tap ‘Add source’
8. You’re done!

To install Spread The Word for iPad, do this:

1. Open Cydia on your jailbroken iPad
2. Go to the ‘Sections’ tab
3. Find the ‘noCreativity’ section
4. Tap on the application (there’s only one in that list right now, so you can’t do anything wrong from this point on )
5. Tap ‘install’ in the upper right corner
6. Tap ‘Confirm’ in the upper right corner
7. When the installation is done, exit Cydia. Spread the word should be installed now. Have fun!

Credits

Eventhough I created this app myself, I owe a big thank you to Eugenia Furman for letting me use her beautiful letters. Those are actually real letters, which she created herself. They’re for sale on Etsy. They’re really awesome. Make sure you go and check out her other work. I totally love it!

Well, this time it’s for real. It isn’t powered by Adobe or supported by Apple but the fact is: Flash is now running on the iPhone. I said ‘is running on’; I did not say ‘is running perfectly smooth’.
There’s still a lot of work but this first step is a very good one, and everybody should be excited about this!

I took the time to test a few of the experiments I made over the past years on my iPad. I am pretty surprised about how well everything is going. In the following video I’ll show some of the tests I did.

About the ‘Red5-Letter-demo’: For some reason I wasn’t able to drag and drop during the demo. However it does work from time to time (still buggy as explained in the video though).

After seeing this video, you’ll probably wonder why I didn’t just give ‘real Flash sites’ a run for their money. Well, I already did. I tried DerBauer.de and 2Advanced.com. I saw intro screens but that’s it (site died after I tried clicking stuff). For the sake of making this thing look good, I prefer not to show how bad it performs on ‘high-end production‘ sites I mean, it’s still an alpha version. Give him/them a chance of getting there before saying it’s performing poorly

How to install Flash on your iDevice?

1. Make sure your iDevice is jailbroken. If it’s not you won’t be able to install Frash on your device. If you want to jailbreak, the simplest way I know at this point is by visiting jailbreakme.com using your iDevice. (Works for most iOS’s and devices). Other ways of jailbreaking can be found on the internet. (I will not assist anybody, just saying…)
2. Open Cydia on your device, go to sources and add ‘http://repo.benm.at‘.
3. When Cydia’s done adding the new repo to its database, go to the ‘Search‘ tab and look for ‘Frash‘.
4. Install it!
5. Go to Safari and visit a site using Flash. You should see a ‘Click to Flash’-like space where the Flash object should be. (If you don’t, you might want to try rebooting your device. It worked for me straight away) Click it and enjoy!

I went out for a shoot at the well known bridge-spot in Kortrijk and by accident I made 2 great color-discoveries. A mighty blue shot and a horrifying red one… I love ‘m both.
I wanted to do some post-editing but after some feedback it turns out I shouldn’t tamper with the originals after all. I also recorded 2 timelapse shots, featuring the same awesome colors. Yesterday was an amazing day.

As it turns out I happen to have no life at all, so I went for insanity when I decided trying to get enough images for a 60 seconds sequence (Generating those images took a whole afternoon… I ended up having ±15GB of HQ PNG files).

Anyway, long story short: I’ve got this video I wanted to show you.

You know: Afterwards I realized this could probably be done using After Effects right away… (I wouldn’t know to be honest). But in the end, it’s proven again: Sometimes not knowing how crazy something is, is actually a good thing.

PS: I would share the AIR app, but right now it’s buggy as hell and somehow memory seems to be an issue. Will need to address those first. I promise I will release it sometime soon

However an hour ago I figured out what was wrong: About 4 months ago I had some problems with Java on my Mac, so I fiddled a bit with the settings… Turns out: Flash CS5 didn’t like that… After fixing that, I was back in business.

I got started right away, trying what I wanted to try for several weeks: testing if iPhone apps would be able to connect to a Red5 server… It works right out of the box. I’m in love with this!

Check it out!

Note: To be able to publish/run Flash Apps on your iPhone you need to an official iPhone Developer. If you have an iPhone but you have no Apple iPhone Developer subscribtion, you won’t be able to test this.