Fl@t33’s new book “Postcard” (Lauwrence King, ISBN: 978-185669-569-5) is now out, featuring (thanks, Tomi!) Less Rain Tokyo’s stationary and website:

We’ve just completed the development of the One Race Wear microsite for our friends Bionic Systems and their client One Industries.

Bionic Systems were responsible for the project and art direction, we added our Flash treatment:

In the last few days I’ve been experiencing weird rendering problems in some websites while using the latest stable version of Firefox (3.0.1) in MAC.

Searching google I found more people having similar issuses like blinking pages when using SWFAddress for Flash in FF3 MAC.

• SWFAddress Help Forum
• Firefox 3 + Adblock = disaster (asfusion blog)
• FF3 breaks SWFAddress (sometimes) on OS X
• Firefox 3 and SWFAddress

In all the cases the solution given for the problem is to add a small delay between the visual transition and the JavaScript interaction of SWFAddress.

After reading all this posts I thought the problem was specific for SWFAddress but my surpsise was when I found similar problems in one of our projects which is not using SWFAddress at all and it is almost 4 years old (AS2). In this specific project we were using ExternalInterface extensivelly.

I have done a small test with just a gradient background and three round corner buttons using ExternalInterface call method to call three different javscript functions and the results are scary:

1) First button (left) calls an alert in javascript using a timeout:

JAVASCRIPT: setTimeout(”alert(’test 1 with timeout’)”, 1000);
FLASH: ExternalInterface.call(”test1″);

2) Second button (middle) calls an alert in javascript:

JAVASCRIPT: alert(”test2 no timeout”);
FLASH: ExternalInterface.call(”test2″);

3) Third button (right) calls scrollTo in javascript:

JAVASCRIPT: scrollTo(0,100);
FLASH: ExternalInterface.call(”test3″);

Second and third button in FF3 MAC makes the flash movie to behave in a weird way when the javascript action is executed.

http://www.lessrain.com/projects/luis/as3/bugs/ff3mac/deploy/

Looking at this results and considering that SWFAddress uses ExternalInterface I can say for now that part of the problem is caused by using the ExternalInterface call method in FF3 MAC (looking at the problem from a flash developer point of view, I don’t know what is happening behind the “Cocoa Firefox” scenes), but maybe the problem goes deeper than this, I don’t know yet, this is only my first attempt to find out the causes of Flash blinking and behaving bad in FF3 MAC.

As a practical add-on for our loyal Flight Lab users we created a mini hangar widget that users can embed on their blog, social platform profile etc.

We happily used Clearspring as the platform for our widget, just click “Get this and Share” and take it away. If you enter the e-mail address you registered with at Flight Lab, the widget display your own planes to show off your flight machine building skills.

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On Tuesday June 10th talk about the weather had its debut. While slurping either the London, Berlin or Tokyo cocktail the audience listened to TINA ROEDER, LARS EBERLE, DAVID KRINGS and PETER BUENNAGEL. Learn more about talk about the weather and subscribe to our newsletter.

Become a member of the facebook group talk about the weather and see the photos of the debut talk.

Disstopia features all new canvases, collages, installations and drawings by long time friend and less rain collaborator Ronzo - also known as Ron Jonzo. The new work is based on an apocalyptic vision set in the wastelands of what was once the City of London.

When:
19th of June - 06 of July

Where:
StolenSpace Gallery, London
www.stolenspace.com

We’ve recently completed the website for the German/Italian property investment firm Stofanel Investment AG.

A subtle use of Flash and Papervision 3D creates an abstract, dreamy and atmospheric paper space to reflect the company’s vision of a harmonious relationship between nature, architecture, community and self.

The corporate identity we developed in collaboration with yippieyeah is based on botanic patterns (Phyllotaxy) as you would find in the growth patterns of sun flowers for example - it underlines the companies dedication to nature and community.

Regular readers will be pleased to find the site equipped with our usual technical treatment: fully dynamic, browser-button- and deeplink enabled (thanks to SWFAddress) and HTML-version for search engine optimization.

Last Friday we launched the first part of The Memory Project, an online 3D image bank (made with PV3D) of the 21st century ‘cyclorama’ created by artist Jason Bruges.

Inspired by Bluebook, the artist Jason Bruges has created The Memory Project - a 21st century ‘cyclorama’. The structure camera-captures panoramic moments in time and stores them within its digital memory bank. Inside, visitors can explore the stored history of the installation and interact with the displayed 360 degree images.

The Memory Project tours in April 2008, collating the mass memory of London, Edinburgh and Liverpool en route. You can delve even deeper into these public memory banks at www.o2memoryproject.com from Friday 18th April 2008.

BBC NEWS: Life in London captured digitally

DESIGN WEEK: O2 to launch Bluebook installation by Bruges.

Shortly after introducing the world’s thinnest notebook Apple is surprising us with another superlative, the world’s thinnest CD rack - the new iShelf touch. It’s ultra thin, and ultra unlike anything else.

Now you can really show off your CD collection, not just on your tiny iPod touch screen or your notebook, but mounted on the wall in your stylish living room.

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satire of an adidas spot.

and this is the original with all the heavily branded kids

by Neil Coslett

50 artists - 1 piece/artist - 1 size - 1 price

Affordable pieces from artists with diverse backgrounds from a number of countries. To be seen: painting, illustration, graphic design, photography, tattoo, graffiti and street-art. Participating artists include among others our friends and colleagues Ronzo and Lars Eberle (Less Rain).

See you there!