just a simple question...about everybody!

[thoriphes]

just asking...how old are all of you?
i'm 17. :)

[Mikeylkzt]

I was 17 WAAAY back in the days!!

hehehe

EDIT: Your sig was slowing some PCs down

[dan4885]

16 here

[tdfwrestling]

just a mere 15

i made this site for a friend. my first attempt so go easy on me. but can i have input

www.timleach.co.uk (http://www.timleach.co.uk)

p.s
starpromo is me

[asmodias vise]

**** i guess at 27 im an old fogie, maybe im 26 hell i forget

[upuaut8]

I'm 31.. ohhh god I'm old...

[dan4885]

17, 17, 16, 15, 27, 31 thats the order of the ages of the people that responded! That proves that you get slower as you get older! lol just playin! its ok that ur about the age of my dad upuaut so I will call you daddy upuaut for now on! lol :)

[asmodias vise]

i think id **** near smack him for that lol

[sidky76]

i wish i could **** lie about my age but my birth year is in my nick - 76. so that makes me 25.
no, 76 is not my age mind you. lol.

[Vts31]

i'm 17! who-hoo!



http://VTS330.tripod.com

EDIT: sig was causing some problems :)

[thoriphes]

wow, i never realized how old most of you are. did you guys (>20) just recently start using flash for some company or just for fun?

[suprabeener]

i'm 26, started flashing to avoid waiting tables. ; )

[kirupa]

Wow, I had everyone here pictured a lot younger. Like they say, "One can never be too old or too young to Flash!" I'm 16 years old btw.

Cheers,
Kirupa

[thoriphes]

yo krup, you seem so old! and how does a 16-year old write a book?

[sidky76]

sorry about the subject, typo in like (should be lie).
anyway, thought kirupa here is like 30+. he's achieved more than i do.
you young people ain't supposed to be flashing yet. u just either chase girls or play counter-strike all day long.
LOL. just kidding.

[kirupa]

Hehe thoriphes. Sixteen year olds write books using MS Word and nothing but geeky knowledge of computer programs!

[thoriphes]

sid, i do chase them girls, but i don't play counter-strike. i'm an all around person. and krup, how were you able to publish your book and @#%$?

[Vts31]

Dont under estimate anyone lol Im 17 and taught myself(like most of the people here) 3ds max 4, photoshop 6.0, flash, drawing, and any animation skills i have. Hell i didnt even own a computer till a year a half ago..before then i thought the internet was like 4 websites all owned by AOL lol. Before i got my PC i wanted to be a physcisist and i took calculus and all that stuff but Digital ART and animation changed my world..THANK GOD FOR FLASH!!!!!!

[TekkamanII]

Oh man i dont know if i should say anything, i mean i hardly write anything on message boards.

But i guess it doesn't hurt to introduce myself. I just turned 18 in sept 2nd, and i am kinda like vts31 (we're close friends) and taught myself on all these softwares.

[willk]

i was 17 before!

[upuaut8]

I got involved because of years of preparation. When I was 5 I was drawing flip books, when I was 10 I was constructing whole cities out of legos (we had something like 40,000 peices between my brothers and best friends), When I was 12 I was making 8mm claymations, at 17 I took a major cartooning class....
Then when I was 20 I worked retail management (If you want to know why that drove me to work in flash, work retail management.. you'll never want to walk into a mall again.)

After a few more years of poping around with stuff, my wife hooked my up with the flash software. I instantly took it and ran. It was the best aspects of everything I've ever done and allowed me to express myself in ways I never before thought possible.

I've been using flash now for two years. Though the a/s side of it, I've only been studying for a year now.

[Vts31]

Woah nice story! :) Since i was 5 i wanted to be an Astronaut so i always read physics and astronomy books and i was also darwing stupid little space ships. It satyed like that till i was in the 9th garde (4 years ago)..i started watching Japnese Animation and i started drawing cause classes bored me to death.I'm not sure how it happened but for 3 years i drew like a maniac all over my books and my homework and my notes...then One day in the summer of last year Tekk told me he had flash and said it was kewl. At first it thought it wasnt all that..but then i realised how awsome it was and it changed my life for ever...Oh Tekk also got 3ds max and the exposure to both 3d and 2d animation made me realize that i was never meant to be an astronaut.

[kirupa]

Hey tekk!
Feel free to post here. We don't bite!.....
I started using Flash for about 3 years now. This whole Web site that I have was started so I could show some friends a really cool intel 3D Java Applet. I started the site in GeoCities; the old site can still be found at: www.geocities.com/Silicon.../index.htm (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/7341/index.htm)

You may have to type the URLs for the pages manually to reflect it's Geocities location for the other pages in that link. They all link to this site though; for example: www.geocities.com/Silicon...dows98.htm (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/7341/windows/windows98.htm)

I started using Microsoft Liquidmotion to animate stuff. I'm not sure if anyone ever heard of that program, nor if anyone has ever used it. It's a very nifty program that ran entirely on DHTML and did not require a plug-in like Flash. Of course, Flash is King and Flash crushed Liquidmotion. That leads us to today where I use Flash for everything: school presentations, image editing, etc.

[r30buff]

lol....out of all of u, Im tha youngest here.....14 years old :-)

But hey...im still good at wut I do HTML, Vb6, and now tryen to get tha hang of flash :-)~

[asmodias vise]

iz ben dwawin sins me was vewy wittle weeeeee. ive been using flash a wopping two months now, untill then i never even looked at the @#%$, started because i was wanting to beef up a web site for a hobby buiseness i have called darkmartyr productions, mainly custom graphics for bands cd covers and tshirts and what not, then i thought hey i can make these dammn pictures move and do things for me, thats pretty much all it took and now i get pissed every day at myself because i havent learned this or that yet THANK YOU FlASH!!! my site still isnt up btw because everytime i decide what i want to do on it or how i want it to perform i think i can figure something better out, one day, one day

[Mikeylkzt]

AAAhhhh...FLASH!!!..how did I ever get involved with FLASH!
I was in the Health Insurance Training career and my old boss told me to help out with the training Intranet...so i went and took classes on how to build web pages...All of a sudden, ALL I WANTED TO DO was build web sites and not TRAIN anymore..so I asked my boss if I could take a FULL BLOWN 10 week program on WEB DESIGN and Management for a mere
$4K. He was like, NO WAY..so I quit that JOB (of 7 Years) and took the class on my own.....After that I got a Job as part of the WEB Development Team for the US NAVY and they TASKED me to do a CD-ROM Presentation using FLASH..so here I am learning as I go.

PEACE

[m3rcc]

me is 18
and I'm facing a 100 hour special assignement kinda thing in the last year of high-school (gymnasium in sweden). Where you get to choose your assignement so I choose to make a homepage in flash (amongst other things which aren't relevant).

[Vts31]

I used Flash for my Big Senior presentation. it was Great! lol I was the first one to go up, everyone else had poster boards or Power Point and did it on topics like courtship or like goverment stuff, lol i did mine of Digital Art and animation. it took me 2 months to make it and i burned it onto a cd along with the trailer for Final Fantasy and warcraft 3. lets just say that people in my class were so shocked after wards that the second person to go up decided to take an F rather than go the same day as me. ... although my teacher decided to give her a second chance and she ended up going last.

oh i got an A by the way :)

[kirupa]

Hey Vts31,
That is amazing. There should be a TV informercial where people such as you and me walk up on stage and explain our Flash experiences to a nation-wide audience. I mean, George Foreman talks enthusiastically about melted grease! Back to reality...

I used Flash for my Physics presentation last year. I highlighted falling objects, two-dimensional motion, and more by simply using Flash. The whole class was stunned that it was actually possible to use Flash for something other than games! Powerpoint and posters will never have the impact of Flash. I should have used a War3 trailer in my presentation as well, oh well, maybe in gov't & economics I'll get a chance to use a good trailer :)

Cheers,
Kirupa

[upuaut8]

lol... all good stories..

[tdfwrestling]

okay seeing as tho were telling stories and what not, heres min ((not so exciting))

last year i heard about flash and its ways, so i downloaded the trail off the macromedia website. i used it for the 30 days and loved it ((flash 4 back then)) and about 5 months ago i rememberd about it and as i was doin work experience i got it ((full version)) as a gift, for my hard work ((yeah right)) ever since ive messed about and gradually got alittle bit better. but not really that good. now im babbling.

oh and in my IT class at school we started to do web sites. im gonna kick *** in this compared to the other people in my class.

thats it.

KIRUPA EDIT: Sig was too large. Sorry, but it does slow the posts down a bit!

[Vts31]

OH kirupa Flash is great for econ presentations. Cause for my econ class we worked in groups for the entire semester and we had to give a presentation every couple of weeks. Lucky for Me Tekk was in my group and so we divided up the Flash work. LOL my teacher said that in 20 years of teaching he had never seen a presentation like that before and called Tekk and I Pioneers. Ever since that day almost everyone in the class wantde to be in our group since we had the 2 top scoring presentation and test scores(tekk and I). FUN !

[kirupa]

You are lucky that you have people talented in Flash in the same class. I'd be lucky to find anyone with any Flash talent in in my whole grade (600 ppl) lol!

Cheers,
Kirupa

[gingerhippy69]

I'm back after havimg my second computer stolen...I am now using my mother's...

I'm 25...good 2 c that i'm not the only over 20's on this board...

25 with 1 grey hair in my beard...must be the reflection of the light off my monitor...:) lol

[Vts31]

lol, welcome back...umm your computer got stolen...again?

[gingerhippy69]

Yeah...I have been robbed twice in less than a month...man that sucks...

they took all my projects 'n' stuff... = unhappy clients...!!!

but i can't wait for the insurance...dual screen G4 here I come...LOL

i am gunna move...

i'm about 2 take on three flash sites 4 1 client so i look forward 2 asking 4 help...i know i will need it...lol...i am so sick flyer design...

Ben....

[vimpaler26]

My turn,

I am 27 as of August 30th, I am an MCSE that mainly focused on Network issues but always "messed around" with web design. About 2 years ago i got heavily into Cold Fusion (Server Side scripting) and then started Flash back in January to add some spice to sites. With my VB experience and Server Side stuff, I have been having a blast with Action Script...

...That is when I am not fighting bulls....

www.rep4.com/bullfighting (http://www.rep4.com/bullfighting)

The first presentation was one of my first flash projects ever, so it is kind of slow since it is not really optimized, but the menu and flash site are my ongoing projects...

EP

[upuaut8]

Hey a little off topic.. but from one Leo to another can I ask you very simply, WHY PEOPLE make pages that you can not back click out of.

Go to you're bull fighting page and try to back up to this board again. You can't.. you have to actually pull down the pull down menu and click far enough back.
Now I know that this is being done all over the place, and personaly I find it offensive.. It makes me not want to visit sites.. (which is sad, because you've done a nice job there.
So my question is.. is this just some effect of some strange scripting that does something else on the page, or is it built in on purpose to do that?

No offense meant to you of course.. I'm sure you are a perfectly nice person. :) .. just makes me frustrated.

[thoriphes]

jeez, your house must be real vulnerable to crooks. do you use locks?

[Vts31]

forget locks Just paint your room black and write i will kill you all in white pain all over the place. i bet you they'll think twice before riping you off again :)

[vimpaler26]

OFF TOPIC re: upuaut8
==============

You had to actually Pull Down the Menu. OH THE INHUMANITY!!!! :-)

After that pain and suffering I guess I owe you an exp. It is not "strange scripting" just a simple redirect. I had originally made this site on a server that did not support ASP or Cold Fusion so I was unable to do anything proper once the detection of Flash was performed.

I do appreciate your feedback (and the compliment...), and I am sure you are a nice guy as well despite the tactlessness

Rest assured I will change this thanks to your post.

EP

PS I am not a Leo. Leo's are born between July 23rd and Aug 22nd

[gingerhippy69]

locks...smocks...nothing stops a thief when they set out to get your stuff...

and remember glass is breakable...and can be done with hardly any noise...

they kinda me a favour...???...in way...cause now i get a nice new dual screen mac...and litttle pc 4 my .asp stuff...

tec heaven here i come...LOL

[kirupa]

Haha gingerhippy. That is quite amazing. Did the steal anything else....or was it just the computer? If it was just the computer, they must have been some 'geeks'. Follow the trail of cheetos and Wired magazines to find them!

Congratulations on getting another comp. Just out of curiosity, have you considered trying a PC instead of a MAC? Is there a reason that you prefer the mac more than the PC?

Cheers!
Kirupa

[upuaut8]

not to cause trouble, but a Mac IS A PC. :)

I'm sorry.. I'm a windows based user, but I love the G4.. as a design and graphics machine it smokes the windows systems.

I wont get into an arguement about it, because when it comes down to it, a lot of the choice just depends upon what you need... but I like the Mac better and would buy one if the oppertunity came up.

[kirupa]

The Mac is a great platform for graphics. No doubt about that. Some of the comps in my school and labs are G4s. I was just being nosy that's all :)

Cheers,
Kirupa

[thoriphes]

you know, it's funny how this post evolved from "how old are you" to this theft situation!

[soommen]

Hi all, I think I'm the oldest one here (36) and the newest!
Manny, you tutorial for random cycling numbers is great but I can't get it to work. Please help, do I need to have generator?

I'm new with Flash and I love it. I use it for work, I am a graphic designer, making product demos with it at the moment.

[Vts31]

Does like everyone have a Job using flash or what!?...:( i feel left out. I wish someone paid me to do flash. lol

[soommen]

Judging by your banner, you could easily get a job using flash!
Do you have any other skills though?

[Mikeylkzt]

Well, My flash CD is finally released and out to the world...It was a lot of fun doing it and i learned sooo much...thanks to this board which is mentioned in the credits of course.

Now they are sending me to SQL/COM/ASP/HTML world...wish me luck.

"I WILL ALWAYS BE A FLASHER...NO MATTER WHAT"

[Vts31]

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

lol Umm yeah im a great illustrator and good at math (16 year old Calculus student baby) I'm extremely creative and umm and have excellant communication skills. Im not that bad at writing tutorials either. Oh right Experience with 3ds max ( vts330.tripod.com/3d.htm (http://vts330.tripod.com/3d.htm) )

I think i can get a job...there has to be someone looking for some one like me lol

[eyezberg]

...most of you are younger, some in their 20s, but finally we get a 36, so as I'm back from a week's holliday, just checking all the posts I missed, let me start by confessing : born on october 20th, 1965...most of ya are good in maths.. :-)
Anyway, I feel younger and don't really understand how you can ever want to become an adult, why?
I started using Flash like in February this year, and am looking for a job in webdesign right now, but times are hard in France.
I got another question to everybody: WHERE are you ?
I've been living in Paris/ France for 3 years now.
Have a nice weekend everybody, greetz

[Vts31]

i Live in beautiful Southern California in a coastal city called Redondo Beach. And i work in Downtown La

[eyezberg]

I hate you!! ;-)
That's just because I love windsurfing, and summer and all this cool lifestyle, and it's always raining here and the sea is so far away, and I can't wait to get out of this place, but in France, all the works seems to be concentrated only in Paris, where people are so stressed out....enough.

[kirupa]

I live in Hoover, Alabama. No beaches or anything here, just fast internet access and 'peace and quiet'....just the way I like it :)

[upuaut8]

I'm from the middle of NY state... well not really the middle. Along the boarder of CT.

and I don't have a PAYING job in which I do flash.. so don't think I have it so good. I do have DSL, and a lovely start in the business, but it's all for free right now. :)

[gingerhippy69]

I'm originaly from Winnapeg, Manitoba...but was moved to the UK when i was 12...

I now live in Leeds, UK...

nice place...s?*t weather...'n' loads of thiefs...

[vimpaler26]

Funny, I am originally from Dallas, Texas, but moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) in '95 (it's a long story).

brrrrr!!!

[soommen]

I'm originally from South India and now live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which is one of the best cities in the world to live and work in...and I've been to a few.

[thoriphes]

yeah, i could really use a job, so i could stop leeching on my parents for money. i was actually hoping to professionally work for someone online, but nobody takes 17-year olds :(

[Mikeylkzt]

well....Im from Southern California....Oxnard/Port Hueneme to be exact. I really am glad and fortunate to find this GREAT forum which helped me and I'm sure others as well on Flash and just about anything computer/web related...


Keep up the good work.

Oh, and congratulations to VTS for the Site of The week award...KOOL MAN!!

[sqladmin]

flash rocks!

i'm sure most of you know this already, but i'll tell ya any way.

Microsoft is shipping XP with built in flash support! a whole lot of creative opp's will follow.

[kirupa]

Flash does rock. It's been of the best programs that I have ever used in my life. It is versatile for all users, and I'm glad Windows XP will include Flash. As for Java, I think Shockwave/Flash will become more dominant a programming language than java. I'm glad that Windows XP won't come with Java VM installed; if I see one more Anfy Java applet, I'm going to scream.

[msjensen]

Well Since I am new to the site I will say that I am of the age of 30 and reside in Coeur d'Alene Idaho, and am sometimes called the Injun. I started flash 2 weeks ago and enjoy but my true occupation is a Landscape Achitect who love technolgy.

[kirupa]

I decided to bring this post back from the depths of 'The Archives' section. Seems like too much of an interesting post to lie there :)

[dan4885]

indeed it is my friend!

[crazylife]

I can finally read over the posts and reply....

I am 16, male, live in Spokane, Washington, was hoping to get a scholarship to college through wrestling. I prefer windows based over MAC and I am gonna buy an
Athlon XP 1500 motherboard and processor for $170 from www.pricewatch.com to fix my computer......
Anybody have any other opinions on processors and motherboards so I can get the most for my money then please tell.... oh yah I also work at a Skippers restraunt and it dosent smell like fish it smells like shrimp ( in my opinion worse )

Peace

[kirupa]

Hey crazylife,
I'm an Intel fan, so I won't be able to help you there in choosing the right cpu/mobo combo. I do know of a great place in which I often hangout.

The site is Madonion.com and they make the popular 3DMark2001 benchmark products. Their site is filled with some very knowledgeable techies ever. The URL is: gamershq.madonion.com (http://gamershq.madonion.com) and you can click the discuss link to post your question. That site is very addictive so be forewarned haha

Cheers,
Kirupa

[wykdfehrie]

Hi-ho,

I found this site sometime in the summer when I thought I was smart enough to understand Flash. I was wrong, but I still come back to this board to check on what you are all up to being the entertaining group that you are. I just fiddle around with HTML now.

I am too lazy to log into my other name - jenisdumb... so, there you have it:

23, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Lived in So. Cal. graduated from UCSB in Anthropology - now back in school... ICK, worst idea I ever had to get a Masters. I bow down to you all in your infinite wisdom.

Hey, gingerhippy, I live in the ghetto, too, but I don't get my stuffs stolen out of my apartment! Hope you got your G4s by now.

[rabskers]

I,ve just realised that i must be the oldest Flash user here!
I'm 68 on January 18 and have been using this wonderful programme for almost four years.

But it seems you all have the years on me and one day soon i shall be gone in a Flash.

Live in peace

Rabskers

[upuaut8]

Let us hope not. You've still got years left,, and you've probebly had a pretty descent math education as well, unlike myself. :)

keep on flashing.

[Uber Noobie]

Im 15

Us youngsters dont play Counter Strike all day, playing that is sooo immature......we play Wolfenstein.

(it has more blood)

I think i started "flashin" coz i had wayy to much time, coz im a lazy slacker who doesnt do homework.

hahah " Daddy uppaut " offensive and brilliant.

Woah dang kirupa, youre 16? you lying? man, you must have took up flash at the age of 3. Sheesh you too good to be 16. Liar. Lol.

God loves ya all

Uber Noobie

[kirupa]

Hey Uber!
Haha, I get that quite a lot. I only started flashing about 3 years ago with Flash 3 and primarily Flash 4. I still have yet to scratch the surface of Flash's potential; I'm learning ActionScript only now lol. Better late than never I guess.

Hey Rabskers, one is never too young to learn how to use Flash :)

Cheers,
Kirupa

[Ghostyu]

i'm 17 also