We’re going to a cookie exchange party, so we baked lots of surgar and peanutbutter holiday cookies!

Our Favs are:

• #7: that G-Bread man got hit in the head by a peanut butter cup flining ninja!
• #8: just simple and classic
• #13: cute star!
• #14: She was going for height! be sure to check out #19 :)
• #15: Yeah Baby!
• #19: of course, this one is our top pick :)

 

I’m just trying to get the hang of drawing in flash.  So I drew a friend’s facebook portrate.

 Ever since going to France last year, I’ve gotten in the habit of carrying blank index cards with me everywhere.  So I end up doodling at odd times like standing in line or waiting for friends to show up, etc.  Back in France I carried a pencil, eraser and pencil sharpener, but it’s just so messy and annoying to carry around that I just stopped and tend to favor the pen I already keep in my pocket.

So I’ve been doodling with an ink pen more and more.  It’s tricky.  No pencil means no rough sketch. 

Here’s a bunch of them:

Working on Uncle Rich’s car (as in, it was leaking oil on a long trip on an extra hot day, so we stopped to let it cool down and give it some fresh oil to hold it over until we get home and he can actually fix the leak.)

 At the book store.  Playing with Marc’s technique of putting more detail in the center and letting fade out toward the edges.

 Sketching while watching TV (it’s tough when the reference is always changing! :)

More TV sketching.

sketched over lunch:

 more tv sketching

 more tv sketching

 sketching while burning backup discs (see the stack of index cards on the bottom left?)

 sketched while out at breakfast:

 Idea while standing in line for coffee:

Yes, it works and I’ll sue you if you steal my soap idea! :)

had time to kill before a movie started.

The dots are how I’ve been making a rough sketch without a pencil.  If you scroll back up you might see a stray dot here and there on the more elaborate sketches (I don’t do it as much for the quick cartoons)

~Danny

 

(just fooling around with drawing using flash)

I just got the 1st copy of “You Had Me At Croissant” and it looks awesome! The printer did a great job! Here are some pictures and a video of a quick flip through of the book. I’m surprised by just how thick the book is! 230 pages!

I think Chinese Chess is more fun and interesting to play then Western Chess. I made these videos to explain how to play and how they’re different.

Part 1 of 2:

Part 2 of 2:

Wikipedia entry for Xiangqi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi

More Ref on how to play:
http://www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html

Play online (Chinese Characters; 1 player):
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/6544/cccintro.htm

Play with a friend online (Chinese and Western Symbols; IM them the game’s id so you’re both in the same room):
http://www.playok.com/en/xiangqi/#

I also found a few sets on amazon.com:

I was trying to load an image into my swf from an off site location and kept getting this:


Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation:http://some.site.com/fbpoker/flash/home.swf cannot load data from http://www.some.other.site.com/danny.jpg.
at ClassName/FuctionName()


There are many reason you could get this error, but one of them happens to be that fact that I was using a flash.net.URLLoader instead of a flash.display.Loader

Lesson Learned.
~Danny

I just got this quote at the top of my GMail:

Blaise Pascal – “Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.”

Shouldn’t that be two things that start with T and A?

~Danny