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VJ Code competition #3.5
By Erik Hallander at January 5, 2012 | 11:07 am | 0 Comment
Why the 3.5 ? Due to somewhat crazy schedules, we had a tiny attempt between this edition and the previous that wasn't quite worthy of posting on our blog; mostly because of my own organizational fail. So this is a reanimation of the concept. We're back baby! If you haven't seen the previous competitions and have no idea what they are about, I'd recommend you start more...
Web directions, HTML5 and Flash
By Erik Hallander at December 20, 2011 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
Big couple of months for interactive web development. There have been a few major press releases that have caused a fair amount of ripples. I think it's safe to say that agencies have been given a lot to think about regarding Flash and HTML5 lately, and it's something all of us have to think through. For a lot of people in the industry, this is becoming a bit of a more...
The modern tech buzzwords and what they actually mean
By Erik Hallander at October 18, 2011 | 5:12 pm | 1 Comments
There's a lot that goes in to keeping up-to-date with what's new in the digital industry. Since our hardware has kept up with Moore's Law (Moore's Law on Wikipedia) for the past 15 years, the possibilities of digital space keep moving forward at a pace that can be quite daunting. Not all of us in the industry need to be intimately familiar with technology however, more...
The VJ Innovation Program
By Erik Hallander at September 28, 2011 | 2:58 pm | 1 Comments
The recently launched Innovation Program is a step towards putting a stronger focus on thinking outside the box. We've had this concept on the back-burner for a little while, and been trying to make sense of how everything should work. We launched this in a staff meeting a month or so ago, and it's something we really wanted to tell the wider VJ audience about, since more...
VJ Code Innovation Contest Take Two
By Erik Hallander at July 15, 2011 | 8:58 am | 1 Comments
Around two weeks ago now, I wrote up brief number two for our internal code innovation contest (if you missed the previous one, you can get your face melted by code madness here) and we had our reveal yesterday. The brief this time was even more abstract; Particles, and more particles. Some cool particle field/generator. Can be self-driven or (even better) responding to more...
VJ Code Innovation Contest
By Erik Hallander at July 4, 2011 | 12:16 pm | 4 Comments
One of the drawbacks (along with all the clearly positive sides) about a company being busy is that you can easily forget about how important it is to continuously learn and innovate. A week and a half ago I put together a super abstract brief to our talented dev team, which looked something like this; In midst of all new cool rad technology, here’s something to chew more...
New display technology, get it right.
By Erik Hallander at January 14, 2010 | 11:40 pm | 1 Comments
Although I do miss the ultra bulky CRT monitors of the past (mostly for nostalgic reasons admittedly) it's fairly staggering how swiftly the display market is evolving. With Plasma and LCD TV's probably getting slowly phased out to make room for LED and Laser TV's, the computer display market has an equal gargantuan rate of evolution. Just recently, Samsung more...
Nexus one confirmed to support Flash Player 10.1
By Erik Hallander at January 11, 2010 | 10:00 am | 0 Comment
After following what can only be described as a debacle regarding the ubiquitous iPhone and lack of Flash, it's surprisingly refreshing to see another platform straight out say 'Yep. It'll be supported, and not only that, we'll continue to update the firmware for later releases'. Granted, the video announcement from Google does leave you with a lot of questions (for more...