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Finally got to see U2 in 3D last week and it was well worth the wait. Compared with what we saw at the Virtual Room this was at a whole new level. The sheer size of the screen combined with the 3D was incredible. It really felt like you were at the concert and at times like you were up there on stage. There were some amazing shots from in the audience where it looked like you could reach out and touch the people in front of you.
Personally I am not a huge fan of U2 but I still thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Definitely a must see.

Well it's been quite a while since my last post, been very busy with uni and work. In the small bit of time I have had to relax I was going to go and see U2 3D which is currently showing at Imax and looks really cool. Unfortunately when we went though we were informed that tonight it will only be shown in 2D as one of the projectors had gone down and the only bloke in Australia who could fix it lives in Brisbane. Hopefully by now it has been fixed as we plan to give it another try this week. Fingers crossed that next week I will be able to post something more interesting about how great U2 3D was.

Well it's been a while since my last post, mainly due to being away over the weekend at Semi-Permanent so I thought I should do another post. After seeing Alex Trochut at Semi-Permanent I've been really inspired to do some research about typefaces and fonts. In doing so I have come across a couple of sites that list a number of the best fonts available.

The first is http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/great-fonts-for-web-2.0 which lists what it regards as some of the best Web 2.0 fonts. I found it really interesting as it shows you not only the fonts themselves but some sites and logos that use them. Out of all the fonts listed I must say my favourite is Frutiger. It is very clean and has some nice variety in the different weights it comes in.

The second site I found is http://www.fontshop.com/features/newsletters/jan08a/ which has the top ten typefaces of 2007. The selection here is a little more interesting than the previous site as it contains a mixture of serif and sans-serif fonts as well as some based on handwriting. I really like the ARS Maquette font as it is very clean and stylish. I also like FF Meta Serif, a really nice looking serif font and Armchair Modern, a very fine stylised sans-serif font.

As I mentioned before I was really inspired by Alex Trochut's work. Before seeing him speak I had never thought of typography as interesting. I particularly liked his piece called rolled gold and would love to experiment with something similar myself.

Today I found an interesting article on creating hybrid websites made up of flash and html content.
http://www.thefwa.com/articles/hybrid1105.html

It is a great way to include advanced animation and interactivity while still having the accessibility that you get with html.

Been a while since my last post (been very busy with the website assignment) but thought I would tell you all about this great website http://www.gotoandlearn.com/. It is a site dedicated to video tutorials for flash, everything from creating a simple button roll-over to creating some pretty advanced real-time 3D. Best of all the videos are all free and you can download them for later reference. I highly recommend you take a look.