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Sites and Sightings

A list of the interesting, the amazing, the appalling, as compiled by the various Multimedia classes, other friends, and neighbors.

Music Editing Sofware for Macintosh
www.hitsquard.com.

"This site has links to a variety of editors from full-blown score composition and track mastering to much easier to use "effects" applications."

(Doug McNamara)

Eric Natzke
www.natzke.com

Web site of one of Flash's most skillful and inventive artist/designers. I want to be this guy when I grow up. -- sam

Flight 404
www.flight404.com.

(From Yoram Chisik:) "Go to version 5; Click on "Flight Manifest" (top left); Click on Business Class, click on Seat 12C, Sarah Gates; Open the windows to see the fishies and click the mouse on any window for various duration of time the longer you press the mouse the more bubbles appear. The fish swim towards the bubbles so you can make them run from window to window."

Promo Site for "Identity" (Sony Pictures)
www.sonypictures.com/movies/identity

(Shannon Tucker)

Pixel Fonts
www.minifonts.com

"Pixel Fonts are fonts that are designed to be used at small sizes at lower resolutions, while printer fonts, like arial tend to look blurry at small sizes. As the name suggests, pixel fonts match the pixel grid of a screen. Instead of blurry letters, every letter looks crisp because they are made up of pixels."

(Shannon Tucker)
Flash MX Game Design Demystified, by Jobe Makar
A sample chapter online: www.gamebook.net/chapter5.pdf.
(From Shannon Tucker)

Fischerspooner Flash animation
www.shine02.org/fis/fis.html. More gorgeous stuff; link suggested by Valerie Clemmer. Also check out the hosting site, Shine. Great concept, but what about that user interface?

Flying Puppet
Flying Puppet
Exquisite Shockwave work by Nicolas Clauss; see especially his Cellos project.

Neopets
www.neopets.com
Neopets are a sort of Web-based Tamagotchi (remember those?); owners gain points for their pets by playing Flash-based games, which are well worth your inspection.

Warriors of the Net: The Trailer
http://www.warriorsofthe.net/movie.html
Not Flash ,but amusing.
From Yoram Chisik.

Flash Player 6 for PocketPC
ww.macromedia.com/devnet/mobile/
(From Shannon Tucker)

PocketPC Flash Game Examples
www.pocketpcflash.net/
(From Shannon Tucker)

"Flaver" (Flash-to-Windows-Screensaver converter)
http://flashdev.info/index.php
"This link has some good flash info, but the best of all is its info about the flaver beta. It's a tool to turn a swf into a screensaver file for windows. It turns the swf into a scr file that if stuck in the system32 directory you can access it as a screen saver with the rest of the windows screen savers."
(Shannon Tucker)

The Rest of Shannon's Bookmarks
www.shannontucker.com

"Donnie Darko" Movie Site
http://www.donniedarko.com
"The movie, Donnie Darko, has a great Flash site. There are hidden links all over the place, which you have to find in order to view different nodes of the story. They also use multiple methods of creating links (key press, clicking, rollover, etc.)."
(Zahra Safavian--Multimedia '01).

SWFTOOLS
www.swftools.com
A utility for viewing ActionScript source from Flash object movies (.swf).
Thanks to Shannon Tucker for the link.

The Square Root of Negative 1
www.atomless.com/sqrt-1
A classic of interactive art. This is Shockwave (probably Director) rather than Shockwave-Flash, but MX now has programmable drawing tools that could let you do similar things.
Thanks to Geoff Hummer for the link.

J2O, the Experience
J2O
This from Doug McNamara and Yoram Chisik, who did include a Bad Taste advisory. You are warned.

NYSE MarketTrac
marketrac.nyse.com/mt/index.html
Advanced, data-driven visualization using Flash.

A simple and beautiful drawing program
www.imaginationatwork.com/Imagine
From Yoram Chisik.

All Your Base
All Your Base: The Video
Someone set up us the bomb!

Nosepilot
www.nosepilot.com
A Flash masterpiece.

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