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Rip Curl Pro Music Festival
Way back in August of this year I was lucky enough to be in the position of official photographer for Rip Curl on the two nights of the Music Festival near Biarritz, SW France. Headlining the gigs were, among others, LBC (a Sublime tribute band, formed by a member and friends of the original group), Keziah Jones, Goons of Doom, The Rakes and Mixmaster Mike, of Beastie Boys fame. It was really cool to be one of a couple of guys with all access passes – on stage, backstage, in the pit and infront of almost 20000 people. Hit the link below for a gallery of my favourite shots in no particular order (by the way – Mixmaster Mike in particular was awesome).
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About my flash portfolio
For anyone who is interested, here are a few words explaining how my flash portfolio [willhindson.com] was created and is maintained. It is based around the component slideshowpro (a great, extremely versatile media viewer) and the slideshowpro director content management tool.
The great thing about the ssp component is that it can be endlessly customised to the point that no one needs know it’s even there. I basically stripped out all of the default formatting so that I could just use it as a raw image/video viewer. In director, I created the albums (one per project) that would provide all the content. With a some actionscript 2 (ssp listeners, loops etc), the albums were linked to the homepage menu, which is dynamically created according to the number of albums in the cms.
All the animation was implemented using the fusekit 2 animation tool, which, combined with the director cms, also allowed me to dynamically set and change the “theme” colours for each project by simply entering a hex reference in each album.
Finally, the whole site resizes dynamically according to the browser’s width and height. By using stage listeners and a timer function, the various elements reposition themselves after a short delay following any resising of the browser.
From the sketchbook…
Hit the above image for a collection of randomness from my sketchbook which serves as a doodle pad next to my computer on the desk. Will try to update frequently.