I Love Tweening!!

There I said it. My first impressions of Flash back in April and May it would be nothing to conquer given my years of experience using AutoCAD. Boy was I wrong!!!!! It is so different to me that I can't even really make comparisons between the two. I love the functionality of AutoCAD, I mean it has been my bread and butter my whole career. But I really like the unlimited possiblilties that Flash offers. I really like the tweening effects. When I went to see KISS on the Reunion Tour back in 1996 ,they had a giant video screen that showed each member's face morphing into each other. I wouldn't have dreamed that I would be able to do something similar, so easily. One of my goals is to recreate the KISS morph. More later.

Hey music lovers

I just stumbled across a really cool music blog called The Screen Door . The blogger’s name is Anthony Kuzminski from Chicago, Illinois and he is the writer for UNRATED MAGAZINE and ANTIMUSIC.COM. Just at a glance, it appears he covers all types of music and movies. It appears the last few days he has been into Bon Jovi, not my favorite by any means. But if you look on down he’s got some posts about Guns N Roses, Metallica and the Allman Brothers.

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Mr. Warfield's Globaloria class: Watch this video!

Guys and Gals,
Check out this video from one of the students at Greenbrier West!

A Tale of Two Classes

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Yesterday's 8th block waws like A Tale of Two Cities. The students were really getting into the Mini Game Tutorial, overcoming the obstacles of learning new software & working to together. It was really good to see them taking off. Me, on the other hand, I had the anti-Midus touch. Everything I touched yesterday broke. My computer was suffering from an overdose of Facebook Mafia Wars or something, it would not do anything I wanted it to do. I pretty much spent the whole class starting and restarting my computer. Next class will be better, but this blog is really meant to commend my 8th Block Globaloria class on holding things together while I fell apart.

My video game Journey continued.....

Those of you who know me know that I probably know more useless music trivia than any sane human should know. While most people were learning relative’s birthdays and anniversaries, I was reading album liner notes. So I could probably tell you Ace Frehley's guitar tech before I could tell you my mother's birthday. But enough about that. What I am here to blog about is one of the earliest, if not the earliest marriage of rock music and video games. The band Journey was on top of the world in 1983 when Bally Midway decided to capitalize on the bands upcoming U.S. tour and released the Journey video game.
So what you say. This game was really ahead of its time. It had scanned images of the band member’s faces on cartoon bodies trying to retrieve their instruments on different planets. Once you obtained all of the instruments it played their hit song “Separate Ways”. The song was looped on a cassette player inside the machine. Due to the degradation of the cassette tape finding one of these machines that still works is nearly impossible. So you won’t be able to put on your parachute pants and Rising Sun T-shirt and push some quarters into this innovative machine.