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Vancouver Downtown, originally uploaded by philipandrews.

Its offical, up is the new down. Apologies to whoever took this photo, it arrived via a chain email and I had to share it.
I hear that Lando Calrissian is going to be the new mayor.

This is an example of how to use the actionscript displacement filter and bitmapData to create a sliding water droplet effect.

example here

actionscript 3 source here

I’ve been playing around with latest version of Papervision. I found this great tutorial on how to load Collada mesh models. Here is a little swf I mashed up. It uses 2 collada models but groups them together as one object with actionscript. Tweener is used to control the animation and mouse events. You view the AS source and DAE model files here.

This is a simple tax calculator that I whipped together for calculating your income after tax in BC, Canada. It should be useful for anyone that works on a contract or hourly rate. Please note this does not include CCP or employer insurance. Show me the money!

(flash + skateboarding) * 3D = awesomeness

Checkout this awesome little flash game built on papervision 3D. Its a very simple idea but pretty effective, lets hope he keeps the development going and takes it to the next stage. If I was this dude, I’d try and market the idea to Tech Deck.

I have added the iTube source files to googlecode svn.

The current dev version has a fullscreen and link to youtube page feature. I still haven’t been able to get the syncing feature to work. The widget crashes everytime I try and send the audio time to flash using SetVariable

If anyone is interesting in contributing to this project, let me know and I’ll add you as a member on googlecode.

It amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t work. My new portfolio of selected flash and front-end development sites I have worked on over the past few years is now online. For all the geeks: there is a link to the actionscript 3 source. The link is in a not so obvious but logical place, have fun finding it.

I’ve just moved to Vancouver from Australia.  Before coming here I read guidebooks but there is always a bunch of stuff that you notice when you first move to a place that you would never read in books.  I’m not sure if these things are particular to Vancouver, Canada or North America, either way they are just weird.

• Car Rear indicator lights are red as opposed to amber in the all the countries I’ve been to
• The front brake

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Whoosh!, originally uploaded by phil.

Apparently gears on bike just ain’t cool any more. Not wanting to be left out the funky bike gang, I picked up an old Raleigh 7-speed last weekend. I took it down to Our community bikes in East Vancouver, the bike mechanics down there are awesome. For about $10 a hour they showed me how to strip out the old components and convert the hub to a single speed. The…

I have released an OS X widget to search then play the music video to the song you are listening to in iTunes. Check the itube page for details.