the overwhelming amount of powerless, dispirited and pessimistic grumbling on masto about today's technology is a daily reminder that people are equally capable of creating very beautiful, aspirational things using creative tools.

this is a 5 minute recording of Ceremony of Innocence, by peter gabriel's Real World Multimedia. you may recognize the style, because it's a playful re-imagining of Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine epistolary novel.

if you recognize the voiceovers, it's because they're by Isabella Rossellini, Ben Kingsley and Paul McGann.

it was built with macromedia director 30 years ago. this recording was done on a 2004 iMac G5.

we're equally capable of building beautiful things like this now.

where the danger lies, also the saving power grows

#multimedia #macromedia #retrogaming #hopepunk #macintosh #vintageApple

tldr: video tour of a multimedia Enhanced CD that no one has seen in 30 years.

anyone under 40 has probably never heard of enhanced cd's. they were a *very* short lived phenomena of the 90s: a Blue Book audio disc that has both redbook audio (music) tracks *and* a data track with multimedia content.

they were expensive to produce. every enhanced CD that i've personally seen was a Macromedia Director projector, usually in both Mac & Windows formats. since the data portion usually took up a significant chunk of space, this also meant sacrificing a music track or two.

but as a teenager, there was nothing cooler to me than being able to stick my cd in a discman to listen to music, and then stick the same cd in my doublespeed CD-ROM drive and goof around with multimedia content.

the best CD I owned was by a canadian band: I Mother Earth. and like almost all great canadian bands, we selfished refused to export them in the 90s and kept them all for ourselves. so no one really knew about their enhanced CD

I Mother Earth had one chart topping album in canada - Scenery and Fish.

a few years ago i ripped the windows and mac versions of the data track from my original teenaged copy of the disc and uploaded them to IA:
https://archive.org/details/ime-scenery-fish-ecd

#canada #music #multimedia #macromedia #macintosh #vintageApple

Clangers Activity Centre

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/clangers-activity-centre

They're made of wool and they enjoy the simple things of life like eating blue string pudding and watering plants. From the earliest days of their TV appearances, the bright pink, mouse-shaped

#macgarden #EarlyChildhood #2002 #Europress #Macromedia

til: the title sequences for Trainspotting were built in macromedia director and a fax machine

some great typography and graphic design discussion in this interview

https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/trainspotting/

#macromedia #graphicDesign #typography

Macromedia Multimedia Showcase

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-multimedia-showcase

Download #1 - Multimedia Showcase 3.2 bin/cue
Download #2 - Multimedia Showcase 4.1 bin/cue

#macgarden #VisualArtsGraphics #1995 #Macromedia