I been thinking about this topic for a while now and how I feel about the situation of possible future of the internet with this plug-in and what would replace it.
I have been messing with Flash a bit here and there since version 4. I guess that is quite a long time and still not knowing much about it. I’ve always found it to be such a painful experience to work with, it’s like pulling teeth. When I have an idea I don’t want to deal with hours and hours of programming I just want it to do what I want it to do. But I’ve manage to learn the basics and for the most part I get Flash to do what I want it to do.
I’ve always have heard from people ‘Flash is the best thing ever man!’ or ‘I want to rape Flash so it’s broken forever’. And I have felt both of those arguments but with learning about the development of HTML5 I’m not sure how much Flash we’ll see in the future.
Everything Flash does right now is be a music player, video player, annoy the fuck out of you with ghey ads and stupid long loading over the top Flash web sites. What HTML5 does is remove the need of Flash to do the first two I’ve mention. That right there pretty much removes Flash from what you care about on the internet. I have a couple of places on my website where I use Flash and I’m looking forward to being able to remove it when all browsers support mp3 streaming with HTML5. (Has anyone else notice my music player cuts off songs before they are done?)
I don’t feel Flash is going to completely disappear from the internet, it’s going to not have such a strong market share. With Apple deciding to not support Flash for their iPhone/iPod/iPad products ultimately really hurts the future of Flash. As a web designer I know that I don’t like the idea of my web site not fully working the way I designed it if someone visits on one of those Apple products.
So taking my last point and an earlier point I made, (I’m not big into actionscript) the option of HTML5 with some Javascript doing what my Flash is doing is exciting to me. Only time will tell if everything I just said really becomes a reality, it relies on what the main browsers decide to support but it looks promising.
I’m not back from my trip but I wanted to post something here since it’s been so long since the last time I did. Or at least thats how it feels. I believe it’s a good thing to unplug once in a while from technology and reset your mind.
I have redone/updated all the artwork for all my tracks that are up on my site. So now all my tracks have artwork with the mp3 so if you use a program like iTunes you’ll see it. I love the little details like this. Also the K-Os remix has been tweaked I think it’s better. Things might get tweaked with everything when I have access to proper monitors.
I have posted my latest track entitled ‘You Were’. Comments, thoughts about the track is always welcomed and looked forward to.
So the next couple of months I will be heading a cross the country. Just because I can. I can’t promise how much I’ll be updating here on the site because I don’t know how much internet access I will have. All I know is that I’ll be working on the album. And I promise a post about my trip when I get back.
The last year or so I’ve learned about the illuminati and to be honest it’s kinda interesting theories. If you even just go to youtube and type in ‘illuminati’ there are a ton of videos on the subject. I like to keep an open mind about things so I’m not going to say I believe it or not. You never know. Anyways here is my illuminati song and it’s a little different for me. Leave a comment if you like it or not, I like all feedback.
Download here (right click if you have quicktime)
John emailed me asking if I could spare a moment to vote for a contest he is in. I did and the response from him was grateful, appreciative. I respect that. You don’t even have to log in or sign up to vote, just click on the picture and you’ll see a button ‘vote’. So help another independent artist out and go to this link to do it.
I can’t get enough of these songs. Someone on my twitter posted one of the videos and ended up finding all of them. There is tons of remixes and check out what some of the other videos from Carl Sagan. Interesting guy to listen to.
The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant.
-Trent Reznor
Trent posted this on his twitter account when he was at the Grammy Awards and I 100% agree with this. I never cared about the Grammys but my interest was sparked a bit when they added the category Best Electronic/Dance Album. I am happy that Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers won in the past but look at the rest of the nominations with live albums and compilations. What the hell is this shit.
To say the Grammys are a reflection of music today is akin to saying what airs on NBC defines America. It doesn’t.
-Bob Lefsetz
