In a nutshell, I’m a creative developer. Starting out as a designer with some animation chops, I soon wanted to actually build the stuff I was designing. It seemed like more of a challenge, and it was. But along with the pulling out of much hair (hence my bald head!) it’s also a heck of a lot of fun.
Over the years I’ve spent most of my time, and still do, honing my Actionscript skills but have ended up with some other tricks up my sleeve, mostly web-dev acronyms like PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JS and few others. Speaking of acronymns, FDT is my tool of choice and I have no idea how I did Flash development without it.
I have an awesome wife who I truly, madly and deeply love (go on, vomit a little in your mouth) and totally enjoy being a dad to our two kids. I also bash away on a drumkit when I get a chance.
I own Run Pixel Run. Contact us if you need any interactive development.
Simon Schubert uses just paper folds to create a two-dimensional room or building on a sheet of paper. I find origami quite an impressive art but this is paper-folding on a unique level. His website is not in English but all you need to see is the images.
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short.
Some beautiful work by Aaron Koblin who uses data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density. There’s been some similar videos floating around but Aaron’s work is really nice. You can also find detailed images on his website.
