July 12, 2001

5:50 AM

Any fellow mefi'ers at FlashForward2001 in NYC right now?
posted by Taken Outtacontext (7 comments total)

Woo! I love good artsy flash. Anybody else sick and tired of the goofy cartoon sites? I've been on the lookout for folks who try to tell stories, enhance poetry or tweak the technology for more innovative uses than whirrling gerbils. where is all the good stuff?
posted by muckster at 7:25 AM on July 12, 2001

Alien Abductee Theatre is awesome. Like the old Simpsons episode "how to eat humans.. how to eat for humans.. how to eat forty humans".
posted by stbalbach at 7:37 AM on July 12, 2001

C'mon guys, we all know the best use for Flash is a splash screen for your corporate website that has words like "innovative" rotating around and morphing while techno music loops in the background. It never fails to impress me! [gag].
posted by matthew at 7:49 AM on July 12, 2001

This site links to some fine flash design.
posted by dong_resin at 8:27 AM on July 12, 2001

I came. I left. Pretty dead there this year.
posted by lowblow at 8:42 AM on July 12, 2001

the quality of presentations definitely is lower this year. then again, i did get to see josh davis put red food coloring in his eyes.
posted by gwint at 2:11 PM on July 12, 2001

Yeah red dye in the eye. Nice touch.

There have been some amazing thinkers here. Erik Natzke, for one.

I am looking for more storytelling, less "flash." And, uh, I guess I have to get multiple tatoos (Matt and Josh) in order to amount to anything!
posted by Taken Outtacontext at 5:33 AM on July 13, 2001