Week 8: Introduction to Flash: Basic animation+ Motion Tween

30 minutes: View student homework, Sketch 7: Applet #1. Help students locate links/URLS to uploaded files if necessary.

60 minutes: Introduction to Flash: Basic animation and motion tweening (if time, shape tweening), and export to swf.  Demonstrate how to place swf files on websites using Dreamweaver. If time remains, com-plete online flash tutorial below.

>Optional
Online flash tutorial : http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs4/intro_animation_flashcs4_pg1.htm

>Screening

Joshua Davis, art and design, site a good example of blog/html integration
http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/
http://www.joshuadavis.com/
About Davis: http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/joshuadavis/

Other artists who use Flash on their professional websites:

Hamish Fulton
Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio (simple slide show with Flash)
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Faith Wilding (SAIC Faculty, Performance)
Fraser Taylor (SAIC Faculty, Fiber and Material Studies)

>Sketch 8
Time-based Flash animation with motion or perhaps shape tweening; Mount “.swf” file on website.

>Reading-VERY IMPORTANT TO COMPLETE THIS WEEK
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945 (NMR, p.35-48), online: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
Kelly, Kevin. “Wired 13.08: We Are the Web.” Wired News: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html

>Writing
Create a blog entry that contains your reaction to Bush’s idea for an interactive desk called the Memex.  What was groundbreaking about the Memex?  What was not so interesting?