September 2 2010 What is this? I don't even.

Sometimes animators new to Flash email me with a submission, and it's not good. Instead of rejecting them completely, I tell them to keep emailing me until I see that they get better. This is called "potential", and I believe Jordan has it.

A new prank call experiment from Booters. No one can beat the Waffle House Prank Call though. It's a wonder people would even bother.

So what's happening with ABS when updates are scattered? One thing is that I am paying more attention to offline real-life matters, and man this life thing is getting in the way, but I know I must take the time to appreciate it too.

This doesn't mean I ignore ABS completely. I have been speeding up this site and some of my clients' sites as well with a combination of server configuration, file minifying/compression, removing things, smushing things, combining things, creating subdomains, working around browser bugs and any other technique under the sun. It's better though that I consider these site optimizations upon a redesign, but it still doesn't hurt to speed up a few things for the time being with the current design. For example, it's been recently discovered that serving an additional IE-only stylesheet using IE conditionals blocks the ability for both those stylesheets to be downloaded at the same time in IE. Strange, considering this is the most-used and widely recommended technique. I hope my clients will appreciate that they won't fall into the same traps as their competitors and ABS visitors will appreciate this site loading faster.

Not to sound too technical, but it is ironic that the conditional CSS hacks that developers were warned might cause problems in the future are so-far nonexistent compared to the Microsoft-invented conditional comments workaround which ended up hurting the future (now current) Microsoft browsers.

tl;dr nerdy coding stuff.

I have to get cracking on adding new sections for some of the wonderful TOFA artists that joined ABS this year. It's the least I can do for them.

August 27 2010 TOFA 2010 Final Round

The theme of the final round was not robots. I repeat, not robots. Each year in TOFA, however, great minds think alike. The final round is Zeurel vs. Dave Bruno with the theme "second chance".

Just how many of these had cellphones?

August 23 2010 This is how we trip at ABS

Three beautiful animations have been sent to me in the mail from Russia by Alexandr Tanana. Each animation a little different in style, but each an adventure of the eyes and ears. Leave comments!

August 16 2010 Pleasure Island

Weighing in at over 14 MegaBytes is the third episode of Chris Voigt's Pleasure Island series.

There are two ways the above file can make any sense to you. You can either watch it over and over again or watch the series from the first episode below.

August 6 2010 If you only had one wish

Two animators from the following entries will move up to compete directly against each other in the final round of TOFA (The Tournament of Flash Artists). This round's theme was simply "one wish". Leave comments.

I wish Darkshadow8181 would complete his animation. It almost looks like he could have won. I would title it Robot Aladdin.

August 4 2010 Are you fancy?

The Round 2 of TOFA is finishing up just around the corner and a new series page is coming next week.

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