subvisual

• A Story Before Bed
  As a developer of online and interactive media, this interests me. As the review notes: “This is how publishing is going to make a real move to the web — not with DRM and lawyers but with beautiful new ideas for how to share stories.” As a dad with a 2 year old daughter and across the globe from her grandparents, the subject of this review looks brilliant. Can’t wait to try it out.
  (tags: narrative web storytelling kids)
• HexoSearch – The World’s First Search Engine Dedicated to Actionscript
  A niche search engine for ActionScript resources. This looks like it may be useful in narrowing down those 2am wtf moments one has with Flash development. A quick test search I did found many of the same resources I eventually found through google, but the signal to noise ratio seemed better. Worthy of further testing I think.
  (tags: flash search actionscript resource)

I recently helped Trevor at Sploosh, an old friend and collaborator from Cape Town days, with the development on a new Flash website he designed for Pod, a “luxury boutique hotel” in Camps Bay, Cape Town. Took a few late nights to fit around my London remoteness, our respective dad duties and my day job, but the end result is a satisfyingly smooth mood Flash experience. more…