Teams of creatives find unsigned bands to collaborate with, or an unsigned band finds a team of creatives to work with. Together they work through a series of music and media industry related tasks, starting with a rough-cut video and single track, moving to photography, design and finishing with a full-length music video.

The winners in design, photography, marketing and videography each receive a Macbook Pro, as well as the opportunity to work with Sacha Waldman on a music video featuring the winning band, which will be premiered on MK.

The 6 top-rated bands progress to a live music event to be hosted at Ratanga Junction on the 27th November, a 4 000 capacity venue. The final event will be live-streamed on the Global Moguls platform to our fans who can vote in real-time, deciding the ultimate winner.

The band that emerges as the eventual winner at the end of the live event will win a management contract with Global Moguls Music UK to the value of R200 000, which includes a professional music video directed by Sacha Waldman, R50 000 in cash and 20 000 sponsored downloads of your single, to fans on the Global Moguls platform.

This site, built by South African based development company Runtime, plans to take the top 6 acts on a Varsity tour in early 2011
Purely web-based in nature, Global Moguls requires enterprising unsigned bands and their creative multimedia teams to upload original music and video content to the website, and recruit fans online through utilizing their social media platforms.

Already, the response has been so overwhelming that the 200 teams Global Moguls had hoped for has doubled and, at this rate, that number may even go over 500 bands and creative team collaborations.

Check it out: www.globalmoguls.com

Another little game site I worked on in early 2009. Coffee is a critical part of my day and I had great fun working on a game were you had to build your own types of coffee. Including Cappuccino's, Cafe Latte's, Filter Coffee's and Espresso's. The most interesting part was to create mechanisms to simulate each process in the making of a coffee. Selecting the blend is the first one, were you have to select your blend according to the order you have received. Adding coffee, just stop the moving bean in the middle. Adding milk, balance to poor and fill your cup. Frothing, mmm, those frothing cups can be quite tricky to manage. TIP! slow mouse moments...

This game was build to promote the different types of Blends that House of Coffees have to offer.

Damm... It's here people. Adobe have released the official version of AIR. Check it out at: http://www.adobe.com/products/air

I am a bit disappointed that the runtime's size has increased by 3mb, but never mind what is a few seconds (depending on your speed) download time between friends.

I have finished the first component which accompanies the DynaSkin Library. The button component uses the "Button" "SkinObject" type, with a label and some positioning parameters. See DynaSkin Types.

Parameters include:

1. Label horizontal alignment
2. Label vertical alignment
3. Label Text

All other properties are managed by the accompanying Skin Xml file. See example file here.
Files needed:

• DynaButton Component.zip
  • File includes the source .FLA file.
  • DynaButton Class.
  • Demo skin folder and files
• DynaSkin Library

Here is a demo of the different types the DynaSkin Library currently supports.

• Single - Only one state, used for single resizable images.
• Double - Two states, example: A window header with a normal and disabled state.
• Item - Three states, example: A item in a list with a normal state a selected state and a disabled state.
• Button - Four states. Up, Over, Down and Disabled.

Each on of these Types have there own default Transition class which gives them there behaviors. Custom Transitions are available but will be explained at a later date.

Demo Files needed:

• DynaSkinTypes Example
• DynaSkin Library V1.0

Good looking new design of Adobe Devnet is up. It has accordian-type navigation panels that allow collapsing of certain sections of the page - ajaxed. I like it.