How to Build Six Pack Abs – wikiHow
Crunching it’s way in at number 6 in Healthcare & Fitness, Top Free apps, How to Build Six Pack Abs by wikiHow is smoking hot!!!
Get the app. 
This was my latest iPhone project and coupled with my new sexy six pack abs “what! you think I wouldn’t authenticate the data”, I am feeling kinda good. So if you want to look and feel great, head on over to the app store and grab it or nip over to wikiHow.com and read the article.
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Brooke Valentine’s Celebrity Girl Fight Game
If you made something that was used by over Ten Million people, would you/it be a success?
Over the last 10 years I have made countless Flash games for various agencies or independent artists. I do the job, get paid pittance and move on. Sometimes they barley rise to any notable or worthy existence and other’s get viral and do well for a while.
From time to time I perform various searches out of curiosity to see if anything still lives. Today I thought I would hunt down a game I made back in 2007 for Brooke Valentine called Celebrity Girlfight. It’s a boxing game where you battle against Paris Hilton, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan, Lil Kim, Beyonce Knowles and Ciara. I was stunned to see “About 691,000 results” from Google. Clicking on the first result brings me to http://www.y8.com. It’s one of those Flash game sites that collects and offers them out for free but laden with advertisement. $$$
On this one site the game had been played 2,371,316 times with 110,043 positive votes (87.15%) vs. 16,224 negative. Over two million, wow!, I continue through one whole page of Google results, 10,000, 9,000, 20,000 plays, on and on and on. I bet if I was to go through more of the sites, the count would exceed ten million. “That’s awesome” I thought.
Now in most situations, the Flash programmer does not put his name on the game and remains anonymous, this is fine, I realize the selling point here is the artist, but I thought it would make an interesting blog post from the perspective of a developer. If I had 1¢ for every time it was played I could have made upwards of $100,000.
Food for thought.
Celebrity Girlfight
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Charter For Compassion
My latest Flash project launched November 12 was the Charter For Compassion site. The “Collective” is a growing list of compassionate acts done by people all over the globe.
http://charterforcompassion.org/
Over 30,000 people signed up in a week and the collective is growing. The challenges for this Flash project were multi lingual capabilities and the management of infinite data, visualized in a space governed by physics and chock full of user interaction. Each act is like a mini bio, complete with image, video, text, links, buttons etc. Far too much just to load in at once and throw around. I devised a system of progressively loading in chunks, left and right, so the user could move in a linear or non linear fashion through the collective. All the while, maintaining a physical position within the data. The collective can also be launched from an entry point via sharing on numerous networks and thus be capable of non linear progression, etc.
So visit the site, sign up and try it out. Here is a link to a spot on the BBC world news with Karen Armstrong talking about the Charter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8358005.stm
The Collective
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IAE V2500 Jet Engine
Given a few images and an old schematic I built this V200 Jet Engine using NURBS in Maya. Besides the amount of painful modeling, a complete history of the topology was maintained for morphing and creating an animated peel back of the outer casing. There were many internal parts that had to be pulled out and analyzed. I comped the final Mental Ray renders and overlays in After Effects. The Finished movie was displayed at the Paris Air show.
The movie:
http://www.i-a-e.com/media/video.shtml
IAE V2500 Jet Engine
