Flirting with Choreography
July 15, 2004
This is just a mid-month reminder to check out this month’s FWiC if you haven’t done so already.
FWiC’s matière du mois is Choreography and Chis was kind enough to include Zoe’s Run Skip Galup Srkls, as well as Emma (in “blurry pixie dancing” mode) performing said movements in Run Skip Galup Srkls 2.
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ames
I love Emma’s and Zoe’s entries. I also love Maria’s “Island in the Sun.” It’s such a loving ode to that special genre of music created by middle-aged men sporting batik-print shirts and receding hairlines. Men who’ve been on humanitarian excursions to ______ (fill in the blank: Kenya, Haiti, New Guinea) and have distilled their experiences into music that’s tribal yet uniquely American. It’s sunshine music!
P.S. I can’t figure out how to get Chris’s “Barbus” to play on our computer. I’m such a technology doofus.
emily
no, you’re not Amy, I’ve been having the same problem…or maybe we’re just both technology doofuses.
Grettir
When you click on one of the Barbus images, a window should pop up and the animation should start playing. Does the window not pop up in the first place, or is it just that the animation isn’t playing once the window is open?
If the window isn’t popping up, it could be that you have a pop-up blocker that is being overly-agressive. The method that Chris is using to generate the pop-up window is one that most pop-up blockers should allow, but you may need to disable your pop-up blocker temporarily.
If the animation isn’t playing, make sure you have the Macromedia Flash player installed. (If you have the Flash player installed, but haven’t updated it in quite a while, you may just need to upgrade to a newer version.) You can grab the latest version at:
Let me know if that doesn’t help…
Pam
I couldn’t get “Barbus I” to run either, Amy. It loaded but never ran. “Barbus II” ran just fine, though.
But anyway, did anyone notice that Barbus (who is pictured during loading) looks EXACTLY like Grettir…especially the cod piece. :)
Chris
Y’know, there is a comments section on FWiC where issues like this can be brought up, so we can try to solve them in a timely manner…
And I think the Barbus guy looks more like my dad, from his early days in the air force.
ames
Huzzah! I’m now able to run both episodes of “Barbus.” Oooooh, me gusta. Me gusta mucho.
To me, the astro-spaceman bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Gordon B. Hinckley—at least around the nose and mouth. And he has Chris’s eyes. The codpiece I’ll leave alone.