The Robert Hodgin Show

You know Robert. His site, flight404 has been around since the early days of Flash. He’s the guy who doesn’t do Flash anymore, but speaks at all the Flash conferences. Yeah, that guy – the one where you leave his session trying to reattach your jaw after it dropped too many times. The one where you come out saying, “Why do I bother? I could never be as good as him?” The one where you come out saying, “Why am I screwing around with Flash? I should be doing Processing.” He’s also the guy who did the new visualizer in iTunes 8. He’s also the guy who offered me a job at Barbarian, but I said I was happy at Xplana. sigh. But that’s another story.

Anyway, if you like his stuff, you might visit flight404 now and again to see if he’s done anything new, but not see too much. Instead, try searching vimeo for him, and subscribing to that feed. OK, don’t bother searching, just click here and see stuff like this:


Consistency from flight404 on Vimeo.

Note: the embed shrinks the video down a bit too much, and full screen blows it up a bit too much. Best to see the original on vimeo itself.

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5 Responses to The Robert Hodgin Show

  1. wonderwhy-er says:

    Heh yesterday Google Reader recommended me to subscribe to that feed. I ended up lost in his gallery surrounded by all those things he does in Processing. Ah when there will be days when Flash gets to this level :daydreaming:

  2. Just outstanding. Really inspiring stuff. Thanks for sharing!!

  3. Willem says:

    Superb link. Thanks for sharing this.

  4. Here’s a couple visualizer shortcuts that are pretty cool too…

    M = cycle render mode
    L = toggle 3D movement
    F = toggle freeze

    F + L is really damn cool! Like many I’d love for it to spread across my two 24″ monitors.

    If anyone knows how to do that on Windows please do tell.

  5. There are a couple more options, press ? to get a list of the commands.
    His first version was quite special too. There is a torrent floating about – Google “magnetosphere itunes visualizer .torrent

    Spanning it across two monitors on a PC can be done, but you need to set your monitors to span mode as opposed to the dualView mode (independent screens). This option depends on your graphics card driver.

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