LEARN ALL ABOUT TANE.US
What is tane.us?
Tane.us is a mostly Flash-based collection of web pages that I started making right after I graduated high school and have slowly added to ever since, though mostly during my college years (long ago). The main tane.us "experience" died off as I became an actual full time employed adult person and also Flash met its demise. I still like to host various experimental web toys I work on here (like tane.us/ac) and plan to keep using it in the future.
Writing this in 2023 I have just updated the site to use the Ruffle plugin to make it mostly work again in modern browsers!!!! I've been hoping for this day for a while and I'm glad people can experience tane again as it was... pretty much.
Did you make all of this yourself????
Absolutely not here are people who helped and I wanna thank!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where can I get the music for such and such page
Oh gosh I have them all listed below but some of the rarer ones are hard to find..... I'm working on it.....
SELECT A TANE!
(blue border indicates collaboration)
Title: gl8ssesAdded: February 25, 2012
Music: Metronomy - Black Eye Burnt Thumb (Toby "Radiation" Fox CHIP MIX)
Collab with: KC Green and Toby Fox. KC did the art, Toby made the remix, I put it all together and did the programming.
About: Had this 4th glasses tane planned for a really long time!!! KC decided to make some pixel arts suddenly and I asked Toby for a song and I did some PIXEL PROGRAMMIN' AND IT ALL CAME TOGETHER VERY QUICKLY!
Title: hightaneAdded: December 20, 2011
Music: Siriusmo - High Together
About: Wanted to program some spinny stuff and use more cool music so a few hours of flash fiddling produced this! Amazing!!!
Title: calptane and calptane3dAdded: March 25, 2011
Music: Dog Panic - Calp
About: I made the song, felt like the middle sounded good for a TANE, wanted to mess around with some 3d projection stuff in actionscript 3 and then DID. AND THEN the next day I made it 3d!!!!
Title: spookyglassesAdded: July 23, 2010
Music: Metronomy - Black Eye Burnt Thumb (Dog Panic SPOOKY MIX)
Collab with: KC Green. KC did the art, I made the remix, put it all together and did the programming.
About: I had this CRAZY SCARY SOUNDING remix of BEBT lying around for a while so I said HEY KC LISTEN TO THIS and KC was like WHOA THIS GIVES ME INSPIRATION and then we created the tane that scares everyone away.
Title: weekend2Added: July 16, 2010
Music: ASparagus - Twilight Gloom
About: I listened to the song and was suddenly inspired to do some more PIXEL CITY STUFF. And then I did it.
Title: glasses2Added: January 19, 2010
Music: Black Eye/Burnt Thumb - Metronomy (Dog Panic Harpsichord Mix)
Collab with: KC Green. KC did the art, I made the remix, put it all together and did the programming.
About: The idea popped into my head while I was driving. I made the song and sent it to KC and he made the arts and A SLIGHTLY NEW TANE WAS BORN!
Title: glassesAdded: August 10, 2009
Music: Black Eye/Burnt Thumb - Metronomy
Collab with: KC Green. KC did the art and picked the music, I put it all together and did the programming.
About: KC Green sent me the art and music for this before face2, but I didn't feel like doing the programming, so I put it off. Eventually I felt like messing around with it and I had a great old time.
Title: microtaneAdded: August 9, 2009
Music: Microtane - Dog Panic (aka me)
About: I actually created and uploaded this page in January 2007, but I didn't like it very much so I took it down. THEN I PUT IT BACK UP!
Title: face2Added: July 21, 2009
Music: Miami Ice - Icy Demons
Collab with: KC Green. KC did the art and picked the music, I put it all together.
About: KC Green was like HEY DUDE I LOVE MAKIN TANES HERE'S THIS IDEA WITH COLORS! and I was like yeah I can dig it and it happened!
Title: weekendAdded: May 4, 2009
Music: The Weekend (Extended Vocal Mix) - Michael Gray
About: Got my hands on Flash CS4 and decided to force myself to figure out Actionscript 3. It was weird but ultimately successful. PS: You have to click it to the BEAT. On the QUARTER NOTES.
Title: staneAdded: May 4, 2009
Music: Calm - Chimp Beams
About: Found a CHILL SONG. Felt like doing something abstractish. It was pretty easy because I finally took some graphics programming classes OHOHOHO.
Title: linkAdded: April 30, 2009
Music: A Link To The Past (RAC Mix) - RAC
Collab with: KC Green. KC did the art and picked the music, I put it all together.
About: It was a long time since a tane update. KC Green saw tane and collaborative efforts were discussed. Collaborative efforts were carried out. LINK TANE was born!!!
Title: sneakertane / familyAdded: August 26, 2007
Music: Sneaker - Dream Line Out / the shadow - kors k
About: I was bored and I had a couple fun songs and I found a photo and played with some flash 8 stuff and made this pretty easily. THAT'S about it.
Title: silotaneAdded: October 4, 2006
Music: Jingle Medley (Excerpt) - 光田康典
About: A friend sent me the song and I thought it was about time I made a cheesy melodramatic tane. Not much programming, just messing around with fun Flash 8 effects. The background picture is the Silomonger's Domain. Its history is too terrifying to write here.
Title: taen2Added: July 3, 2006
Music: Hand Throw - Venetian Snares
About: Another page inspired by the song I used. I was listening to it and thought "That sounds like a good song to make FAST ACTION TANE to." and somehow that evolved into making an old page (see oldtane/taen below) go REALLYFAST. Glowing fun is courtesy of Flash 8 and I took the code for the little ember things from this thing that I made a while ago. Oh and Flash needs a radial blur filter so I don't have to use Photoshop. I don't know why I decided it should be six clicks to go to the next page. SECRET MYSTERY SIGNIFICANCE?
Title: squaresAdded: June 22, 2006
Music: 平均律クラヴィーア曲集～第1番ハ長調 - Unknown Artist (From the beatmania remix album "The Millennium of BACH")
About: A couple days before I made this I was listening to the song on the way to work and I decided I should make a loop of the beginning and make a tane.us page for it. When I got to work I scribbled on my hand with a pen to help me remember, and it worked. I counted the beats in the song before the drums came in and there were 48, so I decided to write out TANE with 48 squares and have one appear randomly on each beat. This took a while to script and it's still not exactly on beat but I'm pretty pleased with the result. I also scripted the color changes, fireworks, and tiling fullpage background. I took the random colors code from another secret animation I've made that I have never released due to secret legal reasons. Mystery.
Title: Tane is Love / lovetaneAdded: May 3, 2006
Music: 恋のテレビジョン・エイジ - Pizzicato Five
About: After another somewhat long hiatus, I was inspired to create this page by the song I used. Originally it was just going to have the man from the first picture, but that was kind of boring, So I searched google, and then my hard drive for more source pictures. They are as follows: Google Image Search guy, GIS gal, GIS guy, GIS guy, Rich Reynolds, Old Cheeseball Cowboy and Friend, fgsfds guy, Bill Cosby, toothy guy, AFP, Dandy Sakano, Burger Man, Dominic Agius & Dog, Kris "Baylow" Belau, Jon Protocol, and slafto dog. I worked for a while to make the bouncing sync up to the music, and eventually got it to work in the standalone Flash player, but then when I tried it in a browser it didn't work so well, but I gave up.
Title: slafto / doggeAdded: December 13, 2005
Music: Silent Hill 2 Dog Ending - Akira Yamaoka
About: This animation was complete except for the TANE text when I decided to make it a tane.us page. It is purely the result of playing around with the new features of Flash 8. It uses a bunch of tweening actionscript new to Flash 8, and a little script to make the slaftos scroll and make it so you can only click tane when all 4 dogs are tilted. Slafto, by the way, is another nonsense word I made up when talking to my friend Trevor Montgomery. I said to him, "Hey Slafto." and it was glorious. I forget where I found the dog photo but I love it.
Title: ScarytaneAdded: October 3, 2005
Music: Cha Cha Cha - Pizzicato Five (filtered)
About: After finding this scary picture of Harriet Miers on a news site one day, I felt like animating it to make it scarier, which of course led to making it a tane page. After doing some masking, animating, and scripting work I was about to upload it when I realized it could be seen as political commentary, which it isn't at all. Seriously. So I added the barely visible "This is not political commentary" message, which doubles as a mouth closer!
Title: TaneXAdded: September 17, 2005
Music: TaneX - Dog Panic (aka me)
About: This started out with me messing around in Flash yet again. I made a little blob animation and thought it humorous, so decided to make a tane page of it. Next I made the music (which was originally a short clip and later became a full song). I added the 3 other color blobs (one for each letter) and thought for a while of a creative way to bring up the letters when you click. I remembered finding an online speak-n-spell not too long before, so I recorded the letters, and then finished off the text and border with a sketchy look. I added actionscript to make it so all 4 letters must be clicked before you can progress.
Title: cowboyAdded: September 13, 2005
Music: Prelude in B-Flat - Henry Adam Curtis
About: A couple days after I made the friends page, I was again at my friend's house with access to Photoshop, but not Flash. Also, the only music I had with me was a CD by Henry Adam Curtis (AKA Hank), a pianist I met in Hawaii over the summer. For some reason I felt like creating a tiling background in Photoshop, so I chose a pile of cheetos as my source. After a little creative blending I searched for a completely random image to add on top of that and found this delightful cowboy illustration. The hand symbolizes my approval of cowboys and cheetos and tane, I guess.
Title: friendsAdded: September 11, 2005
Music: Friends Theme MIDI
About: I was pretty fond of the previous page, which is why I kept it so long, but one day I was bored and felt like making something artsy and ridiculous. I was at my friend's house, so I didn't have access to Flash. I decided to make something with photoshop and add a MIDI. I forget why I chose the Friends theme but it is pretty ridiculous and fitting. The girl power hat is an homage to Neil Cicierega's animation "Earth vs. Funk".
Title: oldtane / taenAdded: January 19, 2005
Music: Brand New Season - Cornelius
About: This page was the result of messing around in Flash. First I was playing around with curves and created the weird shape, then figured it would be neat to make that a mask over something moving, then added the music, then was trying to think of some text to add and tane was the first thing that came to mind, which led me to make it the new front page for tane.us. No actionscript involved except for the link to the previous page.