It’s fun to think on when i first started flash. i think i first started back in 2000 at feast new media. that was my second internship and right before the bubble burst. the place where i first learned about tweens, and astalavista.

i went home, cracked a trial and shortly after realized i’d forgotten everything i’d learned at work that day.

it wasn’t till a few months later after seeing dero 357’s site that i got back into it. went to barnes and noble, and grabbed the first edition of new masters of flash.

my first movie still is the best tween i ever did, but that probably because
1. i admired praystation
2. his quote in in that book

i was already a huge praystations fan. After reading what he thought : i decided i was a coder, not a tweener.

these days that old debate / line is pretty much blurred, if not dead, but i still stick that mentality. i used code pretty much for everything, and if i tween : i control it with code. lol

so by now it’s the end / beginning of 2000/2001. I’m coding everyday (read entire manual twice) and working as a asp programmer by day, and doing flash projects and coding every other waking moment.

back then it was praystation, dreamless, syder, were-here, actionscripts.org and flashkit. those sites (hell dreamless and praystation alone) stepped my game up big time. funny thing is i wouldn’t let my job know i was an as/flash guy. i felt like they we’re to unpure and would only whore flash, vs loving it – yes completely young passion visioned back then. I like to think i still kinda think like that, with hopefully something finally resembling common sense.

2001 was a big year for me, it’s when i finally started making my own path, left school (computer information systems) and started working for myself. it’s also the first i ever realised i was good at flash(we’ll for those days – lol).