I left this project a while ago due to some timing issues.
After August 2010 I was pretty concerned about the way this simple app worked using Basic Authentification, since Twitter stop using it.
Thanks to Sandro Ducceschi and the last update of his AS3 twitter library I handled to make it work using OAuth.
It is still in a prototype phase but it kind of gives a glimpse about what I am trying to achieve. Very simple: ” a new and fun way to interact with twitter, and also to give this to others so they can implement it in their sites if they want.” take a look pls
Código Creativo. Introd. a OpenFrameworks. Lima-Perú
Del 9 al 11 de Nov. en Lima-Perú. Estare dando un taller de Introducción a OpenFrameworks.
Este taller esta dirijido a personas interesadas en el utlizar código como herramienta de creación. En este taller si se necesita cierto conocimiendo de programación, como AS3 y cierta idea de Programación Orientada a Objectos, asimismo como de su propia laptop.
My Apologizes for writing this on Spanish, but this is mainly for spanish speakers
La primera semana de Noviembre en la ciudad de Lima-Peru, estare dando un taller de introduccion a Processing + Arduino con Jennifer Dopazo.
Este taller esta dirijido a personas que estan interesadas en aprender a usar progamacion como herramienta de expresion artistica. No se necesita mayor experiencia pero si su propia laptop.
This is a first approach of an experiment I am doing with the Tweetr library. I first sketched the shape of this sort of clouds, then I created a class of one cloud with the spring system that builds the cloud. Then inside the document class I created an array of 10 clouds that retrieve the last 10 tweets from my twitter account. I am still trying to improve the interaction and the shape of the clouds. Take a look at this first experiment: http://eduardomenendez.net/test/twitter.html
I want to post this article because I had a big problem with a long text added to a dynamic text field. I tested many options in many blogs and noticed that working with Fonts in Flash has been an issue always. After spending more than a day trying to figure it out. This might not be the most “developer” solution but I swear this works. But first let me explain the problem: I was pulling some long text from an XML file the text was using 11pts size so I needed to make it very sharp(easy to read). Thus I applied antiAliasType.ADVANCED but some of the text wasnt showing completely, like there was no wordWrap.
Basically the solution is to set this:
var captionFont:Font = new ITCFranklin(); // ITCFranklin is the class font that is located in my library
var captionFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
captionFormat.font = captionFont.fontName;
captionFormat.size = 11;
captionFormat.leading =1;
captionFormat.color = 0xFFFFFF;
caption.embedFonts = true;
caption.width = 170;
caption.wordWrap = true;
caption.multiline = true;
caption.defaultTextFormat = captionFormat;
caption.gridFitType = GridFitType.SUBPIXEL;
caption.sharpness = 400;
caption.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
Before only worked with the antiAliasType disabled but now works perfect
hope this is useful for someone; as it was for me after struggling a lot.
In the last couple of weeks I have been interested in doing a twitter + flash project. After doing some research I chose Tweetr (an AS3 twitter API library). Since I am not very familiar with protocols and that kind of stuff took me a day to make the first example to work. One of the problems I found was with my hosting account: goDaddy requires you to add some extra code within the php file that set my hosting as a proxy server. Basically what I did was to add this script after $curl = curl_inti();
A while ago I built a flash website for my friend Noyzu Michinboy (Do Kim). The idea with this website was a test some ideas of how to make a flash website and a custom CMS for it. This simple Flash CMS prototype, that it is 99 percent done, lead me to build a custom audio player. This custom audio player is built with code that I found on the web and some of my own + the help of my friend Rishi Sharma. Soon you will be able to download it and use it for free. it has a nice play list that u can customize a lot and some very simple functionality that make it look pretty nice. However this was just the beginning of some more ideas on my way of working and developing my AS3 skills. I wanted to create a more fun experience when u play songs. Thus, while working on a project for Parsons the New School for Design, I saw a work of Nick Hardeman that inspired me. So I decided to work on an audioplayer + particles. Each particle is a song, click on the song and u will listen it. u have some controls as volume, the pause function will be add very soon though..Hope to hear some comments!Click here to see it in action
During 2006 and the beginning of 2007. Hernan Medina, Rocio Silva-Santisteban and I worked together designing a TV program for Peru. We wanted to use national TV broadcast as a massive tool for cultural purposes. Part of the idea was not to have a conductor, relying on the interviewers and the structure of the script to guide the audience with the topic of the program. For this experience, we had the support of the Jesuit University: “Antonio Ruiz de Montoya” in Lima. The people interviewed were Salim Vera (lead voice of the rock band “Libido”) and Dina Paucar (the current most popular Peruvian Huayno singer). Both stars from different sides of the Peruvian “pop” culture. Since this first chapter never went life and has been stored in shelves for several years, I decided to post it here. Unfortunately it is only in Spanish and was designed for a Peruvian audience as well. Anyway, Peruanos vean este video!!!
I have been trying to select some pics from my thesis. This is the first delivery, but I will keep posting some stuff related to it, as well as some documents. For now take a look at these pics.
Testing
Visual Testing
Visual Testing
Thesis Sketch of the Setup
Little Girl Playing with the Visuals. Photo by Ben Bacon
Zach Lieberman Giving Feedback. Photo by Conway Liao
This video explains (in Spanish only) the idea of ESCUELAB.
ESCUELAB is a Center located in Downtown Lima, that gathers artists, designers, scientist and any one who is interested in develop projects related to the fields of ART, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY.
I left this project a while ago due to some timing issues.
then I created a class of one cloud with the spring system that builds the cloud. Then inside the document class I created an array of 10 clouds that retrieve the last 10 tweets from my twitter account. I am still trying to improve the interaction and the shape of the clouds.
Take a look at this first experiment: 
A while ago I built a flash website for my friend 
