Tessa’s interactive presentation

Posted
October 28 2004

Last night, I did go to bed slightly earlier than the days before, and I got up later the next day. It still wasn't eight hours of sleep, but it was close. I got up and ready to head to the academy in order to help out Tessa—as promised—with an interactive presentation for a project of hers.


Dispite my best efforts (well, not really), I arrived a bit late. Tessa was waiting in front of the academy and welcomed me. We headed straight to the computer room, and positioned ourselves in front of a Apple. She explained—briefly—what she wanted, and she put the content from two CDs on the desktop.

We edited the images to workable a resolution and dimensions in Photoshop, and were ready to boot Flash. Soon, we realized the truth: … there was no Flash. Hrm, bad start.

It went downhill from there: nothing was doing was doing what it should; no creative solution seemed sufficient; and no questions were followed by satisfying answers. Just as I started to think there was nothing left to do than give up and try again another time, with different (more, better) resources, things started to fall into place.

We weren't able to fix or even work around every single problem, but we did get quite a bit of work done in the three hours that followed. Also, we know what to do about the problems that were left, but those require some external resources. We agreed to save what he'd done so far, address our external resources, and finish the thing up some other time (perhaps tomorrow).

Although the thing is far from ready (actually, the essence is missing), I think it's coming along quite nicely already. It's a thing that should just be finished on time and that's that, but I think it has potential to actually be something cool. Probably because Tessa's idea had already been thought out pretty good: all that's left is to put together the puzzle pieces.

After we agreed to meet up again soon, I headed home, had dinner, and played basketball for the rest of the day. (Again, what else is new?) Tomorrow I have letter design class of Peter Verheul, for which I'm working on two type faces.

ACJ

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