linux, cs3 pirating, arkoas webpost and flash AND VLOG

I PUT THE VLOG AT THE END SO YOU'LL READ FIRST

but come on baby lets talk, I thought i'd let people know what i did today....

first off, i got a little white pc laptop with amd64 running 733mhz. its my dads but he doesn't care, and granted its not very powerful (733 just barely faster than the iphone) its a good chance to do some stuff..

so first off i'm about to install linux. i'm thinking ubuntu but i'm going with the kde filetype instead of gnome so i'll use kubuntu. kde4.0 comes out sometime in early 2008, and thats going to mean crazy things, most especially hidef vector based "oxygen" (os x aqua interface ripoff) with widgets and dashboard, but better than apples... -its also going to be os x and windows compatible meaning anything we write will work on macs or pcs too, but probably anything written in 2008on will work on ubuntu...


open source is a big deal, we can pirate and it works great, but theres no reason why free software cant suit are needs and it doesn't even have to be that hard to assemble the tools

ubuntu studio is a package that includes a bunch of media editors like gimp, pitivi video editor, kino video editor, cinepaint (frame for frame editor)and lin-stopmotion (guess what thats for) theres a great equivilent to anything, from blender for 3d to cinelerra for premiere, to inkscape to replace illustrator

theres a great program called synfig.

K? SYNFIG YOU GOT THAT SYNFIG

GO LOOK UP SYNFIG RIGHT NOW

WWW.SYNFIG.COM


fuck animestudio fuck toonboom, this is the shit right here, and it works on mac too, because thats the point of linux, asshole...

its great, synfig is really amazing, it even has the layer concepts that toonboom implements...



i'd like to see linux take off, specifically i'd like to see a thumbnail based editor like the new imovie 08. -there could be an editor that relies on no rendering and uses autosaving that could be COMPLETELY UPGRADABLE AND PACKAGE-ADAPTABLE meaning PLUGINS and EFFECTS and shit like playing backwards...


theres no reason why it doesnt exist sept people havent had time and sheer laziness, but thats why theres way to port shit to linux...

i doubt there will be much of a conversation about this here, but thats something i plan to bring to discussion at some linux forums. -we as a community of creative-users need to really assess; -what is imovie 7? what why and how does it work so well and effectiently? I bet you its really really simple, -but who knows...


okay now on to pirating...

I got cs3 running fine, and faux-registered...

PAY ATTENTION OR YOU'LL FUCK YOUR SHIT UP
I used evan's copy of design to launch the adobe uninstaller. I UNINSTALLED EVERYTHING. you need to start fresh.

then I removed even's shit and then i opened, err i couldn't open cs3...

I torrented toast 8.0.3, I updated my iserial reader (www.serialz.to) to the latest with the newest serial package. serialz.to puts all the serials to every program in an archive. it is legal to have the empty progra, the archives themselves you get from wherever .to is...

i opened iserial reader, looked for toast, found the latest version, double clicked the serial to copy the text and pasted to toasts installer which then ran.

once finished, i double clicked the cs3diskimage01.toast, ran it, double clicked cs3diskimage02, ejected the first once 2 started running, premptively mounted disk 3, then 4 and completed install..

I then unplugged my ethernet and turned off the airport.

I opened photoshop and input one of the serials that came with the torrent in the readme.

it asked to register and I said, "hey okay lets do this..."

it got confused and said, well I guess you could always register by phone...

I did, it prompted me to call and give them the initial code.

then I emailed the keygen to myself, and opened it on the pc laptop

then I ran the keygen, I put in the inital code, it spit out an activation number, I wrote the code on the mac in the adobe registration window, it said, "aiight, dats legit." -to which I replied, "homie thou art trippin" but it was under my breath and adobe didn't hear, -I think it might have been on tesimin or at least tesinol or somethin...

well in any case, that worked fine, and now I have after effects, premiere, flash, dreamweaver, illustrater, photoshop and whatever else.. soundbooth i guess and a few others...

but yeah, cant say i'm as excited as i thought i would be, frankly i'm more interested in getting my linux shit together and getting some of these bomb ass programs running, -you know theres a lot of love in the open source community. making games and programming is probably even easier for people off drugs... as long as we're the rat pack, we could get some help with some of the shit if we put this in forum form....

millz, i seem to remember we were working on a project in frisco that you never had time to show me the rehearsal footage from. why dont you put it up here so we can talk about it and work on it and get ready to film it? if you dont think the footage should be seen by so many of the masses, you could at least upload it using blogger to the massive so its not on youtube only on the massive, but anyone who wants to see the massive can see it. -personally i think thats way cool and a great way of doing it.

now on to the shit that i should have asked people about...

I somehow got the email to someone from arkaos, though its probably not anyone really really special... I was asked about my opinions and what we do, so I gave a run through... I hope this response was okay:

"I don't know exactly how to explain what we do, I guess thats why its cool. I've been using arkaos since I was seventeen, but initially started out as both a traditional filmist and a radical innovative media software user. -We the narwallagrams (myself (andreas nicholas) and two friends ryan lotz and mike millard), in santa cruz, california set out to create trippy things rather than just see them. we first used arkaos for a woods rave running off the demo. -we used nothing but lowres mpegs made from flash versions of old 80s cartoons ripped from youtube. the results were so great that we pretty much dedicated our lives to arkoas and the furthing of both our understanding of it as well as our possession of it, and hopefully eventual contribution to its code.

-we invested in arkaos after an acid test we ran and have virtually been on tour mixing videos ever since. the initial 80s cartoons overlayed on top of each other, was so great, so unique and original that we could immediately see the potential for much more. we created stop motion works and filmed scenes specifically for effecting. -still what we have found to be our most useful feature and have done many many shows using prodominately was the luminance keyer. The live keying is really incredible, and matches/surpasses a physical mixer in many ways, not the least of which being transportability. We were even able to go burning man with it, and successfully projected video mixing, both hyphy cartoons and a modern and innovative approach to pornographic mashing projected on surfaces for texture. There is a grungy independent aspect to our group, we project out of vans and in old warehouses, in the woods off generators, in south central la during a gang party and of course in the middle of the desert at burning man. -each time we were able to incorporate our mashes with new material gathered on site, -my favourite being videos of their collected graffitti from around south central effected blew their minds.

We currently mix are own homemade flash cartoons and created video, however we still incorporate are archived effected footage of earlier works. specifically the girls cartoon show "jem" and japanese early seventies anime "tekkaman"

I feel that whatever it is that we made is a manifestation of who we are and broadly reflects our culture, in fact the worlds... we are the cartoons that we saw growing up, and we are the effects that only our technology can apply, this is specifically pop culture 2007, -works are available for preview on youtube.com/narwallagrams, and on my personal vlogpage www.youtube.com/stemcellfilms (look at "tekka: pixelation of the century")

we are spending a lot of time filming new material and creating flash cartoons to replace copywritten material, although I can't say I don't plan to continue using heavily effected versions of jem and rainbow brite, transformers and winnie the pooh. -these relatable images are symbols that we all identify with and have predespositions to, stories about, so seeing live effected versions of images we are familliar with new music creates a bedazziling and provactive effect.

are current project is to reengineer images from both copywritten material, public domain and our own generated works into new, hyphy flash cartoons. -we've done some of this already, but along the way we have come to some conclusions and solutions that all lead to much bigger ideas...

-for one, it makes sense that instead of making 20 cartoons, you could apply the same actionscript code to multiple files. this way the cartoon would be more focused on objects and points transforming and moving across xy on a geometric plane as well as effecting each other. -the benefits besides time saving are the ability to compile live cartoons and to convert "actionscriptoons" into games, that is replacing assigned movements and functions with controllers. flash cartoons could have multiple objects that could be effectively controlled, making flash games a very useful medium for vjing.

we plan to begin producing vjgames and have a set of them ready for burningman 2008. realistically we can have them much sooner...

here is our ambition however:
we would like to see, or even help, reprogram arkaos to fully take advantage of flash and have all aspects properly run. -that is full flash and actionscript3 viewing, support and control through both the keyboard and/or a midi controller. we plan to create flash based video games that are completely customizable and live, incorporating arkaos mixing, specifially luminance and chromakeying.

we are currently on tour and mashing, but we plan to take a lot of time on this one.

It's been exciting to be on the forefront of video mixing, and I cannot say we have seen any vjing that we like as much as ours. but vjgaming is a whole new thing, that we probably shouldn't even be talking about...

righton and heres the vlog i've been talking about uploading: