YouTube, much to my chagrin, has been going around ripping the audio off of videos lately. I find this a hideous act! It was one thing when they were just taking the videos off completely (if there was a song on there that shouldn't have been) but that was at least a "Oh well I knew I was taking a risk" action. (Still, I think, hideous though.) But worse, IMHO, is ripping off the audio. Because they're not just turning off the music (not that they could) but they're taking off ALLL of the audio. So there's a perfectly good video with people and talking and sound effects and etc... but you can hear NONE OF IT. What is even the friggin' point?

I love to watch fan music videos that people make and think this just rips the heart out of so many people's love and devotion to their favorite movies and shows when this crap happens.

There is a shining light in the form of some musical artists though! The first is that some artists have their songs available on YouTube itself so that you can add their track to your video. Evanescence, for example, is one of these artists. This is cool but it's not like they give you the song and you can edit to it... you can just choose to add it on. Then we have Imogen Heap (whom I love). She's just posted on her lasted VLOG that she is absolutely not responsible for taking down vids that feature her music (99% of which are likely the parodies of the "Dear Sister" SNL parody of the OC) and has her people in the process of correcting this with YouTube. She goes on further to say that if you email her and ask for permission to use her song (to preempt YouTube) she'll grant that permission. Yet another reason to love Imogen! So, if you can, make all your fan videos with Imogen's music from here on out. Then e-mail her at YouTube@imogenheap.com to get your permission to use it.



(She starts talking about the issue at 05:53)

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Just found a site (via some hours of intense searching for SharedObject tutorials) where you can write Actionscript online with near-immediate compiling. The site is called Wonderfl and the idea is that you do some class-only type coding and then set it free. Other users can view your code or straight "fork" it and build upon it.

The only thing I ever made ALL in code was this fancy drawing of a haunted house scene so I popped it in with some cut and paste action for others to view.



(And I still haven't found the magic tutorial I need.)

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I tried to start an informal underground club at school called "The D.A." (which was an homage to Harry Potter but in our case represented "Digital Artists"). It SORTA existed as an intangible thing. At the end of last quarter some students decided to start an official IMD club (called "The IMD Club"). They held a little informal contest to design a logo for the group so I did these (in an effort to get them to change the name to "The D.A." because it's just cooler).

I liked 'em for roughs! But the group decided to stick with the "IMD Club" name so now I display these for posterity.









(I added the "i" to some of these to incorporate the school name "AI".)

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