Head over to rAndom to check out their awesome stuff. Instant Labeling Tape rocks!

update:
If you like the work by rAndom you’ll like the projects by Sphericalrobots.

Robert Moog, to many the father of electronic music, dies at 71.

update:
Within a day of losing Robert Moog, electronic music has now lost the leading electronic composer Luc Ferrari .

Check out the site for Tim Burtons new movie, Corpse Bride. A decent flash site it is.

Rockstar is hosting its annual Upload competition again, for shortfilms, DJ mixes and “multimedia design”. Deadline is the 30th of September.

Metro Arts and Architecture. A collection of photos of the worlds most beautiful subway stations and some good links to go with it.

Man with Pen Ron Jonzo has posted pictures from the Chipfactory exhibition last Friday (see earlier posts):

You’ll know Orisinal I suppose. It’s been a long wait, but finally a new game appeared: ‘A dog for all seasons‘.

No load times. No level-based gameplay. In American Wasteland, you travel throughout the vast urban terrain of Los Angeles including Hollywood, East L.A., and other landmark areas without restrictions or repetition.

Check out the latest developer interview at GameSpot where they mention the posibility to play the game ‘a la Dogtown and Z boys’, pure concrete surfing.

I was wondering if Activision is thinking to develop a surfing game where we could see Laird Hamilton surfing the biggest waves on earth such as Jaws, Mavericks or even Belharra and of course with better wave dynamics than the kelly Slater game…

Anyway, I can’t wait to play with the new Tony Hawk game.

Take a bit of England with you wherever you go, with the inflatable pub!

Careful with that darts, though.

Cheers to Andre for this link.

Until now in order to change the background color of a Flash Movie dinamically you could fill the viewable stage using the Drawing Api or simply create a MovieClip at the bottom of your content and change its color.

Now Flash 8 supports a new property called opaqueBackground which turns the background of the MovieClip to an opaque color.

Considering the timeline as a movieclip you can change the background color of the movie with just two lines of code using the opaqueBackground property.

See example here.

Via IFBIN blog.

It seems that the new Bitmap Api in Flash 8 it could open new doors for the use of Flash in ‘art installations’ or any other form of interaction beyond the mouse, and even the possibility of creating hands free devices that will enable many disable people to use their computers, like Mouse Vision .

Keep an eye on what people is doing:

• Gskinner, Webcam Storm.
• Protozoo, Bubble Maker.
• Playdocam, Fire Example.

And see what other people have done in the past using other technologies (just a couple of examples) :

• Mine Control. (Don’t miss the videos)
• Computer Vision for Artists, WebCamXtra and examples.
• Human Locator.
• SetPixel.
• One of my Girlfriend’s projects.

Absolutely astonishing photos: