Privatization of Consciousness

Jerry Mander articulating some thoughts on the role of advertising in this tragic late stage of capitalism
https://monthlyreview.org/2012/10/01/privatization-of-consciousness/

animating bezier curves

I'm not claiming to know much about it, I'm just saving a couple of links for later:

• https://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/ 
• https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

animonger

some interesting posts on animation using Animate CC (ex "Flash")

jen simmons on the grid

helpful code pen tutes

http://jensimmons.com/presentation/designing-grid

Free/Open Source animation software

Some interesting animation apps that I didn’t know existed. I'm planning to do some frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation, not going for a Flash vector look, so it's probably one of these or Photoshop layers.

https://krita.org/en/krita-3-0-release-notes/
http://www.synfig.org/
https://opentoonz.github.io/e/

Facebook ads

I don't have much experience with this, but I need to know our options for advertising on Facebook.

If your ad is running in an app, there's a lot you can do.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/audience-network/getting-started

If it's running on your FB page, there's no HTML5, just static images, videos, animated GIF, and a richer templated thing called FB "Canvas". I keep links here for my own reference —

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/atlas-api/reference/objects/advertiser/v2.9

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/429550437381481/

https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide

Ad-blocking to be built in to Google Chrome?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233