{"id":11342,"date":"2007-01-03T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/01\/mobile-flash-art-cell-phone-as-artistic-platform.html"},"modified":"2007-01-03T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T14:08:08","slug":"mobile_flash_art_cell_phone_as_artistic_pl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/mobile_flash_art_cell_phone_as_artistic_pl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Flash Art: cell phone as artistic platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo&#8217;s always interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingmag.jp\/\">PingMag<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingmag.jp\/2006\/11\/29\/mobile-flash-art-the-phone-as-artistic-playground\/\">posted a story<\/a> discussing the way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashlite\/\">Flash Lite<\/a> (the mobile device version of the Flash Player)<br \/>\nis enabling new kinds of pocket-sized expressiveness.&#160; Lightweight, interactive vector art = lots o&#8217; creative possibilities. <\/p>\n<p>Necessity is the mother of invention, and designing for a small screen, low bandwidth\/processor, etc. can be a fun challenge.&#160; Some of my own favorite Web development projects involved marathon efforts to squeeze the last half-KB out of a Web banner and still have it work well (here&#8217;s a humble, 9-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/splat-banner.gif\">piece<\/a> for British Airways, from the pre-ImageReady\/Fireworks days of DeBabelizer &amp; GIF Builder).&#160; The Photoshop beta <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashdevices.net\/mobileauthoring\/\">includes mobile authoring hooks<\/a>, and I look forward to seeing what people create with it.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting (albeit unsourced) factoid from the article: &quot;The average high-school girl in Japan spends around 15 000 yen per month for mobile content (about 99 Euro or <b>127 Dollars<\/b>).&quot;&#160; So, there&#8217;s real money to be made in this market, at least in Japan.&#160; We&#8217;ve met with designers at Disney creating mobile content for the US market, and it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how things develop here &amp; elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo&#8217;s always interesting PingMag has posted a story discussing the way Flash Lite (the mobile device version of the Flash Player) is enabling new kinds of pocket-sized expressiveness.&#160; Lightweight, interactive vector art = lots o&#8217; creative possibilities. Necessity is the mother of invention, and designing for a small screen, low bandwidth\/processor, etc. can be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}