PATRICK JOSEPH BESONG: November 2007 Archives
My two sons (age 15 and 11) were playing Madden football. One was kicking a field goal, the other was playing defense. They were pretty amazed at this play, so they captured the replay. The center hikes the ball and it hits the defender's leg as he attempts to block the kick. The defender falls on the ball, but if you look closely at the referee, he signals that the kick is good. The ball actually goes up through the uprights even though the kicker is nowhere near it when he kicks. So, this is either a glitch in the game, or one of the game developers is just a major Jason Elam (the kicker) fan. Watch the video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZl38fDmUes&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b
The other neat thing about this is that my kids were able to figure out how to shoot a video using our digital still camera and upload it to YouTube on their own. I was pretty shocked.
My 17 year old is working on a Flash website for FBLA at his high school. It's a website that shows the Centre County Band Festival (he's in the Bald Eagle Area marching band). I'll post a link when he gets it done. I was really amazed at what he can already do with Flash. I showed him a few things, but he figured out the rest. Here is his Chickenzilla video he made in Flash (I've shared it with some of you already):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNzXX6MpYL8
He worked on it all summer. He had a bunch of his friends over to help him record sound effects. It sounded really weird not knowing what the video was about while they were recording (he used Audacity). I was pretty impressed with what he was able to learn on his own. I'll post the link to the FBLA site soon. He has to have it done by next week, but it already looks pretty good for a rookie.
The children of the digital age I guess. Better add a few more computer workstations to the Digital Commons
This is going to be a test of whether or not we can possibly use blog space to do some flash video a la YouTube. I had to manually place some javascript code in this blog post (via SFTP transfer) to embed the FlowPlayer in my blog page. I have a folder called "video" in my blog folder now that I can upload to by clicking the Upload File button in my blog interface, then selecting Set Upload Path. From there I choose
BTW, to view the video, you would need to download the beta Flash 9 plugin that supports h.264, called "MovieStar". You can get that here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
Note that it requires that you uninstall previous versions of the Flash player (see instructions on that page).
