FRANCISCO CAMBEROS

In the world of advertising sometimes your required to produce these wonderful 40k-30k flash ads using tons of images and fonts. I know we all get exited about those but settle down.

We can’t always import tweening engines, because even 4.7k is too much (Tweenlite). I’m not ragging on Greenshock, actually i use it myself and love it, but of course publishers wont budge on 40k. In the day’s of 56k i understand but tons of people are on broadband already! That’s a whole other discussion so without any further ado ::drumroll::, i present my simple fading function. tadddaa!

Quick & dirty AS2 fade function… (rollover to test)

Obviously you can expand on it by adding different properties but this is basic fading.

/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
// BASIC FADE FUNCTION
 
// @ AUTHOR - Fancisco Camberos
// @ EMAIL - Francisco@1984interactive.com
 
//Copyright (c) 2009 Fancisco Camberos, 1984interactive
 
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
// fadeIt(direction:String,target:Movieclip,fadeSpeed:Number)
 
function fadeIt(dir:String, tar:Object,fadeSpeed:Number):Void {
	onEnterFrame = function () {
		switch (dir) {
			case 'on' : tar._alpha += Math.round(fadeSpeed); break;
			case 'off' : tar._alpha -= Math.round(fadeSpeed); break;
		}
		if (tar._alpha >= 100 || tar._alpha <= 0) {
			delete onEnterFrame;
		}
	};
}

Simple AS3 Timer Example with a stop button.

package {
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
 
public class TimerExample extends MovieClip {
 
	var sW:Number = stage.stageWidth;
	var sH:Number = stage.stageHeight;
 
	public function TimerExample() {
 
		//add timer mc
		var t:timer_mc = new timer_mc();
		addChild(t);
		t.x = sW*.5;
		t.y = sH*.5-50;
		//add btn
		var btn:b = new b();
		addChild(btn);
		btn.x = sW*.5;
		btn.y = sH*.5;
		var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(500);
		myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerHandler);
		myTimer.start();
		btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stopTimer,false,0);
		btn.buttonMode = true;
 
		function stopTimer(e:MouseEvent){
		myTimer.stop();
		}
 
		function timerHandler(et:TimerEvent) {
			trace(myTimer.currentCount);
			t.t_txt.text = ' myTimer.currentCount ' + myTimer.currentCount;
		}
		}
	}
}

Chew on this sneaker fiends…

http://nextdaypair.tumblr.com

OH Yes, Nice Sunday ride. No pictures but a heck of a ride. Well only one

A friendly 31 mile route, nice steep hills, switchbacks and an incredible view of the coast.

(Crappy razr photo) :/

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Death Valley Coming SOon!

First Ride with the new Bianchi

Full write-up coming soon…Videos & photos

WOOOT!

No words needed…

Trash Dance from Oliver Fergusson-Taylor on Vimeo.

Off the top I will always go back to these classics…

This one’s just hillarious

More people are starting to cycle, not just for economic reason but for fun! Wohooo!

The hardest thing to do is capturing a drivers attention while on the road. It’s not easy saying “Hey, share the road”. I read somewhere that it cost about 5,000 to 50,000 per mile to make dedicated bike lianes. With the current crisis i don’t think we’ll be seeing any new bike lanes.

So what are we to do?

Make your own! Vandalism you say? Nope! these only seem to work at night, a laser is projected on to what you can call your “Very own bikelane” the picture below explains it all

More midnight riding! WHOhoo!

Lightlane Copyright

Concept: Altitude’s Alex Tee and Evan Gant