2Advanced for this world
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- nikdaum0
As another guy who has taken two exotic "sabbaticals" to collect his thoughts on what to do instead of a current soul sucking career, I respect his maneuver. The leaving for a foreign land part is easy, it's the next step that is the hard hard. You can only stay in a workless tropical paradise forever if you are brave enough to abandon the life you had before. I don't view this as wankery.
Alex Bogusky's story is a little different though. Thank guy is a wanker from start to finish. :)
- exador10
Good for him.
glad to see he's enjoying life.
- mg330
I envy him completely. It's kind of humbling to see that a guy who was/is so great at what he does, and was so visibly hung-ho about his work eventually got worn down to the point of needing to make a massive change. We should all be so lucky.
- CyBrainX0
Maybe it's because it's been a while, but do you guys remember how a 2Advanced thread would surface and it would be 200 postes of hatred and mockery. How times have changed.
- animatedgif0
^ Because they're not really relevant anymore and we're all just nostalgic for a time when we were a bit more excited about this industry.
- mg330
I was a mod on Flashkit.com a long long time ago. Balanced mix of love/hate there for 2A. A new site launch was sure to fill the message board with praise and nonsense. I wasn't always a fan of their designs because I felt like they were always designing for themselves rather than the client, but I was always impressed at how quickly they could get sites to load, and how fluid they were. Seems like nobody else was pulling that off at the time.
- instrmntl0
I think a lot of the hate back in the day stemmed from his arrogance. This interview I think shows he's a little more humbled and grounded. I can see why it look like he's trying to pull a Bogusky, but I think him moving to New Zealand shows that he is taking his burn out a little more seriously and feels less like a PR stunt. Bogusky went form selling BK Burgers and Domino Pizza to kids to fuck corporations in a years time and seemed a lot less sincere.
- Didn't the hate stem more from bad taste and 10 minute overwrought sci fi intros?reanimate
- Bogusky also took MILLIONS of dollars before his 'epiphany'...glorifi... cashing inbabaganush
- For sure. Fuck Bogusky.instrmntl
- Those intros were what were in at the moment. It was the copy of poor intros that kind of killed flash.instrmntl
- I still remember his site and being blown away by the realistic clouds floating over.instrmntl
- DaveO0
I actually really enjoyed reading that. It took me back to university days, just discovering Flash and After Effects and spending hours trying to crack stuff and being so jubilant when it happened.
We all forget how vastly different the internet / creative industry was back then, this is like a time capsule.
- <<< totally agree. like most things - the man owns it nowfadein11
- scarabin0
barneys.com gave me such a boner when it was released
- reanimate0
Autokern, init
- cbass990
fuck, i haven't done 1% of what that guy has done and i'm already burnt out.
- 74LEO0
- Those were the days.CygnusZero4
- I love it.. all the news in a 300x250 box... makes sense to me.bogue
- holy shitmoldero
- May 1st Reboots were awesome. Those were the days.instrmntl
- RIP threeoh :(Continuity
- Holy Shit!WeAreDAG
- Whoaformed
- fadein110
fair play - nice interview - QBN probably caused most of his meltdown :) but nice to see someone happy and lets face it although their design style was utter flava of the month tiny lines 45 degree illegible font flash/web finding its feet nonsense - he gets to take that sabbatical - how many of us can say the same?
- aliastime1
he laughed all the hate straight to the bank
- mg330
Did the timeline in the article seem incorrect to anyone else? I thought he was calling himself "2Advanced" well before having a proper company with other people involved.
- His site came out,then later on there was 2AdvancedStudios. Seems right to me?instrmntl
- He did the 2advanced site while working full time, it is rightnumero1
- It's confusing because when his site came out, it seemed like a team did it.instrmntl
- That was the whole thing it seemed like a team did it but it was just him at the beginningnumero1
- fate0
mg33, I thought the same thing.
- auxillary-2
Ah yes, now I remember why I hate Flash so much. Thanks!
- I knew THAT guy would show up eventually lmaoCygnusZero4
- @aux why?sureshot
- < because steve jobs said so,GeorgesIV
- actually LOL'danimatedgif