I’d never done a full piece out of cut samples & figured this was a good time to pull out the sampled I’d recorded for our earlier assignment and play with Audacity. This is the result: all vehicles have to go.aiff

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A first work doing animation in Flash, in collaboration with Chris Cerrito.  Flash was a pain in the ass to work with from a beginner’s perspective, but this assignment ended up being a lot of fun.  I have to give mad props to Chris; we were fighting with the interface together & he came up [...]

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Alex started the project (including fiddles) and then handed it off to me; I added some guitars and bass (and of course it needed cowbell) and tweaked it a bit.  Lots of fun with GarageBand’s Nordic Fiddle loops…Here’s an m4a…

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While I essentially agree with Clay’s general claim that micropayment systems are likely doomed to failure, I also believe it is important for new systems for paying for content to be built and tested.  Heck, 10 years ago I never would have suspected Paypal would make it off the ground.With content we are, and have [...]

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I think a lot of my feelings in general on this I expressed in my response to Clay’s article, though I do have to say that I think Scott is looking a bit lightly at the “mental cost” of a transaction.  I think it is a real deterrent to paying for content — that in [...]

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