Wing Heong's viral video campaign “The Rice of Yok Man”

1930's, on the eve of World War II, the Japanese Empire was eyeing the Malaysian food industry. In order to destroy the anti-Japanese forces in Kuala Lumpur, the Japanese have sent spies for infiltrating missions. The young Yok Man has been implicated by the incident... An uncanny bak kwa superhero has burst into the social media scene, leaving almost half a million Internet viewers agape with

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Groupon Malaysia Deal: MiPow MACA-Air and MACA External Battery Cases

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FIinally, Robert Bowling, Creative Strategist at Inifinity Ward, tweeted that tonight we would see a world-premiere of the gameplay coming in Modern Warfare 3. As per himaround 9pm ET/6pm PT we’d see the trailer on TV during the NBA Western Conference Finals. A full hour early, he posted the video to YouTube, and it doesn’t disappoint.

If you’ve been following the leaks and information releases around Modern Warfare 3, none of the gameplay will surprised you. What may surprise you though is how good everything looks. Everything in the cinematic is actual game footage, not pre-rendered or dressed-up cinematic sequences. The full trailer builds on the teasers already posted to the Call of Duty YouTube channel, but now we get to see how the battles in some of the world’s major cities will play out.

The video is a world tour of some of the places around the globe where players will get to experience the game, from street battles on the streets of Paris to swimming through flooded New York City subways. Near the end of the video, we’re treated to a little tidbit of story, and at first the initial “WW3,” which turns and becomes “MW3,” implying this global conflict may be bigger than we initially anticipated. Modern Warfare 3 lands on store shelves November 8th.

Avril Lavigne: Goodbye Lullaby

Pop/rocker Avril Lavigne is back with her fourth studio effort, Goodbye Lullaby. Read on to get a glimpse of the sure fine hit. After a long hiatus, 26-year-old Avril Lavigne is back with her impressive fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullaby. What was created in late 2008, Lavigne decided to shed her snarly punk princess persona from her third effort, The Best Damn Thing and the number one

flv Cuepoints Actionscript 3

We are hearing a lot lastly about the future of video in the web, moreover, here in Spain I´ve seen platforms improving video seo in the web as DigitalNovae does

Besides, we are also seeing really good sites in the FWA website, with what I would call interactive video, for example this one from ACTI or this other from Wrangler

I´m sorry about HTML5 boys, you can not do this by now, only Flash can. So, this is the question: Is it possible to move the video head with Actonscript? Can you play backward?

For the second question I don´t have the code (I welcome solutions), but for the first I do.

First, if you happen to load a video in a website, if you can it would be better to embed it in the timeline and then just use tags with gotoAndPlay or gotoAndStop.

The problem is more complicated if you have to load several videos in streaming and you want to interact with them.

Lastlly we had a project for a customer, he wanted to do something similar, you can see a

demo here. This is a microsite with four streaming videos, we load four .flv with the FlvPlayBack component. The briefing says that whenever the user interacts over or out the video, there must be a listener so that the video shows other message or not.

To do this, we followed some recomendations from our friend luckyPig, the best way is to make an array with the video cuepoints where you will work. For example, let´s take the video of the girl from the right.

If we see the complete video, we will do two loops, standby loop and movement loop. Also we will mark the cuepoints of the jumps from forward to backward. If you record this, you´d better use a croma and export if for .swf from AfterEffects.

//Cuepoints times:

1- Init
2- End Loop 1
3- Beginning of forward step 1
4- Beginning of loop 2
5- End loop 2
6- Beginning of forward step 2
7- End

So lets do an array:

Cuepoints for the young girl
0/10/14/22/36/37/40

Let´s go to the code:

import com.greensock.*;
import fl.video.*;
import fl.video.MetadataEvent;

var flv_chicajoven:FLVPlayback;

var tiempos_chicajoven:Array = [0,10,14,22,36,37,40];

//Adding the cuepoints
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[0], "chica_iniciobucle1");
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[1], "chica_finbucle1");
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[2], "chica_salto_adelante");
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[3], "chica_iniciobucle2");
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[4], "chica_finbucle2");
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[5], "chica_salto_atras");
flv_chicajoven.addASCuePoint(tiempos_chicajoven[6], "chica_final");

//Listeners of the flv
flv_chicajoven.addEventListener(MetadataEvent.CUE_POINT, chicajoven_listener);

//Boolean variables to control
var chica_enbucle1:Boolean=true;
var chica_ensalto:Boolean=false;

function chicajoven_listener(eventObject:MetadataEvent):void {
if (eventObject.info.name == "chica_finbucle1"){chica_irInicioBucle1();}
if (eventObject.info.name == "chica_finbucle2")
{
chica_irInicioBucle2();
chica_enbucle1=false;
}
if (eventObject.info.name == "chica_final")
{
chica_irInicioBucle1();
chica_enbucle1=true;
}
if (eventObject.info.name == "chica_iniciobucle1"){chica_ensalto=false;}
if (eventObject.info.name == "chica_iniciobucle2"){chica_ensalto=false;}
}

//Movement of the head in streaming
function chica_irInicioBucle1():void{flv_chicajoven.seek(tiempos_chicajoven[0]);};
function chica_irInicioBucle2():void{flv_chicajoven.seek(tiempos_chicajoven[3]);};
function chica_irSaltoAdelante():void{flv_chicajoven.seek(tiempos_chicajoven[2]);};
function chica_irSaltoAtras():void{flv_chicajoven.seek(tiempos_chicajoven[5]);};

//Events
chicajoven_bt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, fl_chicajovenON);
function fl_chicajovenON(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("fl_chicajovenON");
if(chica_enbucle1==true)
{
chica_irSaltoAdelante();
chica_enbucle1=false;
}
if(ejecutiva_enbucle1==false)
{
ejecutiva_irSaltoAtras();
}
if(viejuno_enbucle1==false)
{
viejuno_irSaltoAtras();
}
}

chicajoven_bt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, fl_chicajovenOUT);
function fl_chicajovenOUT(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("fl_chicajovenOUT");
if(chica_enbucle1==false)
{
if(chica_ensalto=true)
{

TweenMax.to(cuad_mc,0, {delay:2, y:-224, onComplete:onFinishTweenChica, onCompleteParams:[5, cuad_mc]}) function onFinishTweenChica(param1:Number, param2:MovieClip):void
{

chica_irSaltoAtras();
}
}
else
{
chica_irSaltoAtras();
}
chica_enbucle1=true;
}
}

//The same for the other videos...

Well, lastly the customer decided he wanted just static photos instead of videos. But it was a good R+D project.

MTV: Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known by his stage name Eminem has released Recovery on 21 June 2010. In the US, Recovery sold 741,000 in its first week to land atop the Billboard 200. As of August 1, the album had sold 1.828 million copies. Love The Way You Lie makes its way to the top of Billboard HOT 100. The music video featuring the hottest ladies in town, Megan Fox and Rihanna. No

AS3 Video Experiments

To do this you need:
- A camara, in this case, a broken Sony Ericsson W910. Yes it is broken, the effect of the image is not any plugin or filter, the mobile just fell down on the floor and its camera records as you see ;-]
- One online designer, in this case my workmate Elena Balduque.
- Free time and sense of humour. Well we did this on rest-times in our work. You can see here other videos like me eating chips here:



The aim was playing with cuepoints and events in AS3. I mus say, we recorded 10 videos, first one very long and then 9 different videos in nine positions, each one looking at the camara from a different view.

So first thing I tried was to implement the nine videos in a Flash via Netstream so as to deploy them. Once the user clicks any video this one becomes the central one and all the other videos just look at the selected one. The problem about this was that if you hadn´t a good connection videos were lost and all the experiment misunderstood.

So loading nine videos was near impossible. This is what I made: A timeline with 9 labels. So with the events I move from one to another depending on the position, is just adjusting.

You just can see the demo here:


Just click and you will see what I mean.

Watch your back Palm and Blackberry: Android is going to outshine both of you soon

The HTC Hero is the first Android phone of the manufacturer to run the personalized Sense interface. It changes the overall appearance of the OS and adds a number of new features. The Hero is also the first Android phone to support Flash and is powered by a Qualcomm 528MHz processor and 288 MB RAM/512 MB ROM. Additional functionality includes a 3.5mm jack, trackball, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi.

Confirmed: Palm Pre GSM will be release, first in Europe then the rest of the world

      Palm Pre has finished packing its luggage and is coming to Europe for the holidays. Initially it will be available in the UK, Ireland and Germany through O2, while Spain will get it through the Movistar network. The press release states the launch date as the definitive "before the holidays", but at least O2 Germany are more specific and claim they'll have the Palm Pre in October. UK

Spotted: Palm Pre GSM

With the Palm Pre CDMA on the shelf for about a month now. Words on Pre GSM availability still unknown. Recently, the Palm Pre GSM was spotted at Vietnam. Let’s check out the YouTube video.

Beauty and the Beast: Erika and Tsuyoshi

Name: 沢尻エリカ (さわじり えりか) Name (romaji): Sawajiri Erika Nickname: Deco(Childhood), Kacchan, Aachan Profession: Actress / Model / Singer Date of birth: 8 April 1986 Birthplace: Nerima, Tokyo, Japan Ethnicity: Japanese/Algerian (Her mother is Algerian-French mixed) Height: 160cm Star sign: Aries Blood type: ATalent agency: StardustRead more about Erika.---> Tons of photos here ! <---Sawajiri Erika and

More than meets the eye: Soda vending machine

Web Design: Video Sites

So, here is my opinion about this book. You can have it here in Taschen.

I miss more theory content instead of just screens and screens. There was a news in Spain some time ago saying that we spend more time in internet than in tv. This idea is taken by Wiedemann, he reminds the song "video killed the radio star".

Other main idea of the book is the "do it yourself", cos now everyone has access to make videos, but for me videosites should be more than just playing videos on the web, interactivity is the key. So the main points here are speed (see Japan sites please) and interactivity.

There are good examples from Adidas, transitions as the ones from blackbeltmonkey, or maximeperelmuter, music sites as muselive, funny sites as relearntodrive or wouldyoulikeawebsite. But I am more interested in whole video sites, so please visit feelSomething or the nice timeline of whalefootage or this one from Saab.

So although I like very much Wiedermann I would say many of us could make this book just in a day. I miss cue points, miss more about interactivity and definitelly miss vodafoneJourney

Other posts about Wiedemann:
- Web Design and Interactive games
- Julius wiedemann, guidelines for online success