Lady Mac Illustration

ladymacI either have a very low opinion of Lady MacBeth, or am somewhat obsessed with her presence. In highschool, I was in three productions of The Scottish Play and co-wrote two satires (MacBeth Revisited, MacBeth Revisited Revised). I’ve seen the show a number of times and find myself doodling scenes from it from time to time—including this watercolor on wood painting of her reassuring her tormented husband and convincing him to hide the murder weapons. The latest is this vector drawing of Lady Mac retrieving the daggers from Duncan’s chamber and plotting her next move. Sadistic, wouldn’t you say? Either way, your feedback is certainly appreciated.

Aerial Virtual Tour of New York

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Wow, I’ve just wasted an absurd amount of time on this web site. Other than the Jan Hammer music, the beauty and serenity of NYC from above is awe-inspiring enough to extend anyone’s lunchbreak an extra half-hour. Take a look at this VR presentation by PixelCase as you gently hover (or force-navigate) your way through New York City’s Central Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and Downtown Manhattan.

NBC Universal Milestones Timeline

Broadway Video Senior Designer, Katherine Burke, approached my company (ERA404) to develop the ActionScript 3 interface for NBC Universal‘s 5-Year Anniversary project, entitled “Milestones.” The site, designed by Ms. Burke, is hosted on NBCUni.com and linked from NBC.com, NBCUni.com and UniversalStudios.com. The interface provides a timeline for users to chart NBC Universal’s major achievements over the past five years.

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twitI know how excited you have been to read my sparse @citarella twitter tweets. AND how you’ve reveled in finding ERA404’s quarterly newsletter in your inbox, too. So have I got a surprise for all the [d]online readers. Now you can get ERA404 news, product and project information served directly to your browser and mobile devices more than four times a year. That’s right! ERA404 is now on twitter (as if you couldn’t tell by the post title.

Add us here: http://www.twitter.com/era404

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screenshot12May I just take a moment to vent my extreme frustration with the Facebook Developers API? Cardinal rule of development that you should change the public interface unless it’s a last resort. Facebook, who has made a practice of changing their API almost regularly, has got its application developers jumping through hoops just to keep old projects functioning properly. Read more

Flash File Uploader – Ïñtèrñàtíðñàl Çhàråçtêrs

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A [d]online reader pointed out my ethnocentricity recently, in that the Flash File Uploader, which I’ve offered for free for years, did not include any functionality for retaining accents for international characters.  This has been fixed and re-uploaded in a new .rar file of this project. For your convenience, the link is the same as the last one.

Comments and feedback always welcome. Thanks again, Mike, for the assistance and to [d]online commenter, Gerald, for pointing this to my attention.