The site's plan now and then

I guess it's partly my fault here and there since I've not been updating regularly due to my havoc in work and life imbalance, well and just got back some time to blogging after completed one project seemingly unrelated to Flash. But that's just I guess a valuable experience to me somehow.

But whatever it takes, I'll still come back often as I could to post more findings and reviews I can find on the internet about this great application. But I had no idea when I will really feel demotivated and wanted to run away, due to stress from work and deadlines. I feel that i'm degrading.

But really, let me know what you think and feel. It might enlighten me a bit.

Not dead but not too alive, yet.

Flickr Related Tag Browser
A very cool richmedia application by Airtight Interactive, This one's a search engine where the search keywords will then display related keywords around the center search result, I guess this is one of the good or best flickr information visualisation yet. But I can't seem to find the Amazon search visualisation built by Yugop since I've ever come back from the Max Conference at Singapore.


Vodafone Journey
A very impressive site by it's navigation so far I've ever visited in my life. I'd mean it does really breakthrough how a stereotype website would be on a normal basis. Awesome FLV implementation and it's so freaking smooth that you couldn't believe you are viewing a website, it's like on a CD-ROM! It's best if you have ear/headphone with you as you listen to it closely, you can observe how much detail are really put into it that the transition for the intersection are carefully planned to let it merged so well with each other.


North Kingdom
Who'd say that technology and design can't blend well?


Oooooouch
This is a very interesting website advertising a sunblock lotion product :D. Ouch as you touch the girls. Play on and you'll know why. I'd think they're using FMS/FCS for the backend I guess?

Would You Like A Website
by Freedom Interactive Design.


Session
Still remember the great intern for Exopolis from HyperIsland that sets a bar for motion graphics in Flash? I mean, I'd really have deep respect down to its toe for this guy man, he rocks even in this latest attempt on creating motion graphics in Flash. That's just plain insane.


1Mug
A creative agency, but which provides an interactive tour around the company with a fully rendered 3d sequence, you'll need a fast broadband connection to view this. But well it's good and resembles Sony Style also in its own league.


Magnum in Motion
What's so special and impressive about this site is the narrative style that is proved to be totally brought out the mood of the picture which is taken professionally. With a surplus touch onto the audio, some of the audio will really take you down to a journey which will gives you a chill in your back, some even goosebump. But seriously, you must pay a visit here. Great navigation and Flash implementation from the dudes at Group94. Awesome as always.


Makine
Talk about being fun and serious and somewhere in between. This is a portfolio site which you'll be spending some time in clicking on hidden objects while playing around enjoying some cool transitions.


Mecano
This site has previously won various awards from FWA and more. And the site is absolutely beautiful separated with different colour scheme and hidden bonuses. What's more attractive is probably the navigation systems are friendly and usable indeed.




LoveLines
Ever wondered what other people in this world think and feel about love? This is an experimental site collecting datas from an external sites and then VISUALIZE the information in graphical manner. And I'd bet this trend will go stronger and stronger in the future and more people would demand information to be displayed in graphics for better information absorbtion instead a bunch of text right? Well, this happened to be started way long time ago from Marumushi @ NewsMap. And now Digg's even doing it. Who's next?


It has been a while since the event ended and it was awesome, both nominated sites and even winners, they're just both awesome though I suppose there are more that deserves the award. But of course, it's also one of my dream to attend one of these great flash conference or even best still, to participate and give speech *cough* on it, well, it's a dream.

Flash Forward Conference Seattle
Below is the list of site i compiled from the nomination and winner list, but well, in case I afraid they took it off, so i just list it out here, in no particular order :P
http://www.99rooms.com/
http://www.geocities.com/gio_art_1/splash.html
http://www.nfb.ca/perpetualmotions/perpetualmotions/?w=engrenage
http://www.byma.de/phraggles
http://www.aardman.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/fairlyreliable/
http://www.biteycastle.com/littleFoot.html
http://www.wefail.com/sundaypants/
http://www.acura.ca/acura/csx_micro/en/csx-popup.html
http://www.bowwowlondon.com/
http://www.md-extreme.pl/
http://www.tazo.com/
http://www.bluesuburbia.com/
http://www.incomplet.org/
http://www.fubbs.net/
http://www.liquidjourney.com/
http://www.deathinsakkara.com/
http://www.dofus.com/
http://www.mtv.com/cms/templates/games/video_games/obsessed/flash_game/
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thelegendofzorro/zorro_game/
http://www.artnatomia.net/
http://www.curatingthecity.org/
http://www.geoimpact.com/cx/project/gitanenglish/index.html
http://redstudio.moma.org/interviews/shahzia/
http://www.converseone.com/
http://www.corpsebridemovie.com/
http://www.havaianas.com/
http://www.theunseenvideo.com/
http://english.pobediteli.ru/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/game.shtml
http://www.theassassinationofrichardnixon.co.uk/
http://www.zimmertwins.com/
http://www.andreescu-gaivoronski.com/
http://www.bbdo.com/
http://www.moma.org/contemporaryvoices/
http://www.remo.com/
http://www.forestandthetrees.com/findr/
http://nesteaice.com/
http://www.goober.nu/nim/high.html
http://demo.fb.se/e/volvo/xseachallenge/
http://www.asunit.org/
http://www.i2off.org/flashed
http://www.rbkcustom.com/
http://www.rr.com/flash
http://gzone.jp/
http://www.dreamstudiodesign.com/
http://www.extrememusic.com/
http://www.newpaul.com/
http://www.fbfx.co.uk/
http://www.i2off.org/
http://www.schemexpo.com/2005/
http://www.wordsatplay.com/
http://www.dearmrb.se/
http://www.liveonthefly.com/
http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/dreamkitchen/
http://www.samsung.com/se/current/campaign/d600/index_en.htm

Fun with Flash

Physics in Flash?
http://www.cove.org/
http://www.sephiroth.it/blog/img/flade.swf
http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/05062202.html
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=115
Was browsing around the net for resources and then found these interesting links on physics inside Flash. Cool.

UnitZeroOne Daily dose for Flash application.


BlinkVille
A highly interactive site that lets you post message onto it, well, to leave a mark. But for sure, it's really awesome, and the backend and coding although not revolutionary, but it's far than surpasses any Malaysian site ever created yet. So far. From (if) interactive.


FLV Meta Data Injector
A very useful application I found from Buraks which injects meta data into your FLVs so it's crawlable by search engines, and also, if i'm not mistaken there are also SWF MDI somewhere around the net where you also able to let search engine to crawl swf's meta data injected to it.


Old-Film Webcam Effect on-the-fly using Flash 8
Here's a site that i've ran through that provides a really nifty codes that let you run in Flash8 that produces an old-film-alike effect in your webcam output.



The Black Sheep
One very cool mention here, The Black Sheep is actually a graduation campaign from one local design college in Malaysia, but I won't mention about it. Anyway, why it's here? That's because of the quality of build are put inside the site, dynamically and interactive. And powered by XHTML and CSS. I salute the team behind it.


I miss U E-card
Do you miss anyone lately?

camMover v.3 Move the cube with your hand!

Screenshots


The Thing
[ View the Demo here ]
[ Download the Source ]
(You need a webcam and flash player 8 or newer to view it properly)

////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////// CREDITS AND SALUTES ///////////////
// 3D CUBE Script by Kirupa, www.kirupa.com //
// Webcam Detection Script by betaruce.com :) //
// Inspired from Quasimondo's Minority Cube. //
////////////////////////////////////////////////

CamMover Prototype Version 0.3 ( 11st July 2006)

+++++Using the Script++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Basically the video attached on the stage are for
reference only, which you can remove it, but if you
notice, i've offset the BitmapData outside of the stage
which it replicates the Orangebutton's position.
Same goes as well for the Orange square, you can hide it
using _visible = 0 or setting the alpha to 0.

And if you look closely as well, there is one green tiny
dot appeared running around the video, you can also
hide it from appearing with setting the alpha/visible.

+++++Author's Note+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Currently i'm still working on different navigation
or interaction possiblity with this webcam input.
There are still lots of bugs to fix at the moment
but I guess it's way better than the first prototype
i produced which taken the example from Guy Watson's
fla file, which is way heavier and laggy even on a
3.0ghz machine, and it would crash whenever it runs
for a long time. But it has not been tested on this file
yet. Let me know if this file also crash on a long run.

There are basically around 3 type of different interaction
until this moment.
1. Scrolling through a picture gallery
2. Control a 3D cube (which you'll be able to select one of it)
3. Drawing with your body + sound

But of course most of it only uses 1-point interaction,
I'm looking forward on implementing a two point interaction
so it would be possible to use 'zoom-in/out' or 'rotating'
the canvas in the future. But if you know of any solution.
Let me know about it ya. Thanks a lot.

Drop me a comment on what you think if you decide to
use it on your project. And i would be glad to see how
far it would go to.

p.s. - reason i'm doing this? I think by sharing this would make the community better, especially
when OSflash is promoting on how to make the flash community better.

p.s.s. - but ONE serious note here ya, if you knew anyone that misuse this source for their own commercial use, without noticing me and give credit back, let me know i'll sue that person off until the end of this world. :D


Copyright (c) 2006 ManMeng.net. Some Rights Reserved.

Making good, effective and usable site

Computerlove
If you want to see one of the best integration on the web on the latest cutting edge web application + high quality, I guess it's really been a while. but cpluv answer all your questions. What amazed me is not only very well designed XHTML+CSS valid site, and also, something you can see from Frappr, which connects you within the world of a network together with other really awesome designers, creative and art directors alike. Upon digging into their About section, the site's backend are maintained by the guys from Embassy of Aesthetics. And really cool photo sharing enabled by Woomp! I'm yet to know how far this competes head to head with Flickr's API, but it's promising, on the main page to see a rather dynamic presentation on recent uploaded pictures.


DQBooks
Very beautiful yet minimal approach on building skectchbook. And the work speaks for itself. Self explainatory. Art directed by 1h05, which also responsible for Days in a Day project that takes you through A city's map, which I've seen this 1 year back if i'm not mistaken. (It's rpg-like type of game, but without a specific character)

Refeed : Checking back with Andre Michelle's blog, lots of update on Flex2 & AS3 development. Happy to hear he's invited to Flash Festival's Paris.


Volvo Design
Very unusual, but intuitional and daring implementation of navigation, for such a big company, really, really, exciting. And I guess if this method are being pushed towards the market loudly, it can be a very useful and usable type of website, to stand on it's own, because you're navigation using the logical arrow navigation. Up, down, left and right. And you can zoom in and out. I'm not really sure but I guess it's also heavily influenced from gaming design as well, with the very useful "map" displayed on the bottom right to indicate where they are now. Very nice.


Media Catalyst
Heavily influenced from transitions you always from TV commercials (if you know psyop, you'll know what i mean). Besides from being experimental on the transition, they still maintain lots of usability on the site, content and navigation still remain intact and usable. But I guess by looking at this website, how much % it will impact your site's experience towards the user. See, the transition.


Shave Everywhere
If you wonder how far that Flash Video presentation would take your site, look at this site, and it answers most of your doubt in selling a product, on it's 100% effectiveness. Very smooth site on both platform, tested and one worthy note, there's very little hiccup in between of the loads of the FLVs, very optimized. With this approach, your audience will most of the times feels a lot closer interacting not in only mouse clicks, but, a person that talks to them, telling and educate the audience with the correct message they want to deliver.


Reflets
One of the very best animation work I've seen incorporating Flash8's filters after littleFoot, Prowlies at the river. You'll be amazed by the details and cinematography that is able lives almost up to the 'movie-like' standard. Unique style i would say, a joined effort between Sukiland and Papy3d, i wasn't too much suprised when they're being nominated on both Flashfestival and Brooklyn International Film Festival. Congrats guys. Yes, I still think, Suki's illustration is great as ever, check em out!



Webcam Fluid Dynamics
Certainly, another cool experiment done using Flash 8's new features. and live from gskinner's blog, i saw this... "...This experiment lets you interact via the webcam with particles that behave similar to fluids. They flow downhill, get caught in bowl shapes, and are generally a lot of fun..."

Converting SWF to other video formats

This has always been one of the most used feature that a lot of TV Shows are gaining momentum in using Flash to animate it before airing on the TV. So there's probably a lot type of question on beginners that how they can convert the ever small .SWF file to ...let's say... an AVI file format?

The Freeware
http://www.pizzinini.net/projects/swf2avi/
Though I have not used this one yet, but I guess it could be one of the good one out there.

/////////////////////////////////

LIMITATIONS

- no audio support
(simple workaround: record your windows stereo mix :)
- no support for compressed movies

////////////////////////////////


The Shareware
http://www.winmpg.com/SWF-to-AVI.html
http://www.flashants.com/root/swf2video.shtml
Not free but powerful, with support.

The Flash Itself
You can actually use the built in export function from the Flash interface itself, File--> Export Movie but there are of course certain limitations would occur from using that, and that's even if you're not using Quicktime Pro.

We'll discuss about audio export later, now we can come to the video itself, by using Flash export, it's easy, yes, but there are things you'll notice that the movie clips inside the main timeline, that normally has animation, doesn't play when exported and stopped at it's first frame. Why? I've yet to find an answer. But if you have everything animated on the main timeline, i guess you won't have any problem with it.

And as for the audio...
You can playback the SWF file, and while it's running...
1... You set your Recording Control's setting to Stereo Mix
2... Open or use any audio recording device, such as Adobe Audition, MySoundStudio etc etc.
3... Press record on your recording software and then fire up your SWF...
4... it will record whatever that is streaming on your pc at the moment, so make sure you turn off volume for all other application, if you have audio player running of course.

Combining the both
And after you get both output file, audio and video itself separately, you can now combine it with any video editing software, such as Adobe Premiere, or VirtualDub.

P.s. - not actually an official tutorial but more like a sharing. :D

Next generation 'trend' of Flash experience?

XRS Nowe Media
First the evolution of timeline-based-navigation. Now, inspired by airport terminal, which has all of the ambient and sound element when you are at that place. This site really captures it well, and should be one of the revolutionary one. What's very nice about this is the integration of the whole concept, planes, terminal, the 'ticking' sound. The good guys behind this.


Recruit 2007
Comparing to the XRS Nowe Media that is about some airline services, what similarity that shared among this 2 site is the navigation system. You are moving along the line.


Quasimondo : Incubator
One of the Flash developer page you shouldn't miss out anytime soon. You'll find Mario's experiment on generative art, prototypes on installation and more. But a look at the recent dugg article on his Minority Report 3D Cube prototype (you can control the cube with your hand!) has an interesting comment...

"...And if someone decides to decompile it and use the algorithms without my permission I will find out one day and sue that person's ass off..."

Chill out dude :D. Another noteworthy group that Mario's behind as well, côdeazur.
(côdeazur is the venture of four renowned software engineers, Claus Wahlers, Ralf Bokelberg, Mario Klingemann and Florian Krüsch.)



Pulpservices
The ambient of this site is just cool, bringing you through various quizes that is related to the services provided by this company, and the hands on experience is not bad, with being you walking around the forest with a piece of paper, marking down the answers on the paper. Reminds me of BadLuck-o-Meter.


FlipMo v.2
A really cool portfolio site really lives up to its name, Flipping Motion, as what you can see, every transition towards other section gives you a whole-moving section. Controlled dynamically with ActionScript and XML, I can say the cpu usage for this site is awesome, optimized and smooth between pages. And i'd want to congratulate him for winning few recognition and being nominated as the 6 finalists in Flashloaded for May. Kudos.


Frappr
Another RichMedia Application, that is going pretty hot and gaining momentum slowly, well, slow i mean. Which at this moment it's still beta, and acts more like a community site that lets you get to know where your friend located at, through the integration of google earth/maps. Similarity found @ shoutwire :D


Diesel | Cabinet of Visions
The brand, which is really has been infamous as one of the big brand incorporating designs strongly with fashion. I'm really suprised that the ambience of this site has gone way higher notch than I expect, from the loading screen that emulates the old TV screen, which flickers with dust and scratches, and when being at the main page, dropping petals. Awesome.


Mind Flood
Going back retro, this site aesthetically has the 'look' & 'feel' but what's more interesting is the organisation of the content, and how it is being presented. As the finalist of One Show Interactive, they're no small names to be reckon with, but I guess, featured work such as Red Bull MET and Interactive Mirror really does justify at where they stand now. Check em out.


Yoann Lemoine
One notable thing with this site is the 3D space around the main page, while on the other one, is the illustrations.


Mazda5 Quiksilver
Bling your car, the street style. We make graffiti out of anywhere or canvas we can find, the wall, table, bags and more, but, this time, legitly, on the car, pre-customized by designers.


The Formshape
Multi displicinary designer, from Crew11 (remember the toysite?), with just only 21 this year, does scores a lot of promising work so far. From visual identity to illustration. You just gotta dig into his style of presenting portfolio, 3D space in an interesting setting, leaves as transition


_moving
A bit on the experimental work asides, this Shockwave page provides you a random list of picture displayed all around that the installation has occurred. I guess you will have to check out the site for more interesting specs on it.


Full Throttle Energy Drink
Those dudes from BigSpaceship has done it again. Integration of FLV clips within the sites, transitions and smooth surfing experience, all packed into one, and of course, being in that site reminds me of a retro console game "Rock'N'Roll racing" back in the Sega Megadrive era. I guess that's how gaming really plays a big role inspiring some great works.

Coming back towards the mid

Spam Recycling
Who doesn't hate receiving spam? A project initiated by EnBW, we had enough hearing from recycling bottles, cans, aluminium cans and stuff...but...spam? Why instead of trashing away all of your spam mail, why not participate and make the world a beautiful place? Yes, your spam mail can create really nice artwork, logon to see.


Jan Peiro Communication Design
It's interesting to see how flexible this website can be, being catered towards two different distinct audience, his client. With both option to choose from, both high and low bandwidth, design are altered and file size are reduced greatly though the content stays the same. This is where the power of XML comes in, and of course that is from my point of view on how I intepre the site is being done, possibly could be done the other way, but this is what XML integration really comes in and powerful, which you have one set of standard content but you'll able to socket it with different design


Tom on the web
Another Flash tutorial goodness, but this is catered specially towards FLV, though you'll find other speciality within that site. Look at how and what can be possibly done with your FLV plus with the filters.



Ashtray Mouth
Of course, myflashportal is not the one portal that talks about good design and methodology but, we can discuss about how effectively one thing is being applied towards a subject, for an instance, i guess it's good for once in a while for an awareness campaign towards anti-smoking campaign, but how effective is this? As usual which i always saw around my country that promotes it using the 'scary-pictures' which has larva brains, and a lot of disgusting pictures, but well, still, i'm not really sure if that is really working. Look on the other side, there are always debate on "why do they pay for killing themself?". Interesting thought.


The Flash Blog
Hey, if you're interested in some interested inside-scoop of what's gonna come next on Flash, look no more to keep yourself hook onto this site always. And if you know, the guy behind gotoAndLearn? Yes, it's the same author, just except to feed yourself with really goodness of flash tips and tricks, especially on the really neat alpha mask tutorial. And also, you'll find some Breeze presentation on filters in flash8.


Yutaka Loves London
This has to be one of the blue moon i've seen any site providing tour to a tourist attraction this way. Being in love with one place is one question, but to make a site out of it and to present and introduce to other foreign visitor as you're the resident there is what makes it unique. I once heard and I still believe that..."content is...king"



Forgotten War
Being in the midst of war of commercialism doesn't always take you far if you only think of digging up cashes from your beloved clients and consumer's pocket, but as what Pill & Pillow are moving toward are different and seem to gained a lot of momentum. Forgotten war is one unique site that acts as an awareness central to keep people aware of what's happening on the world outside, in Congo. This site certainly reminds me of a site back then that is done by the good guys from Leo Burnett Malaysia on Pakistan's war (correct me if i'm wrong, i have bad memory). I'll try to dig the URL to see if I still have it. It resembles quite a bit in a way that both of the concept/contribution from the user will form the shape of the 'country' that is under fire, while unveiling a little bit here and there of the suffering people. And it has also came across my mind that the navigation has seem to go trendy from an experimental one. Remember the one that yugop did for the xbox360 campaign in japan (i guess that site went offline)? and leoburnett canada?Zoom in Zoom out.

MyFlashPortal's status (updated)

Been a lack of updates for few weeks, because I'm pretty exhausted from my fulltime job's project. But I promise i'll update and share with you guys as often when i get myself back on track with some time. Can't even have time to develop any experimental work for quite a while as well.

Don't worry, i promise and i will always will, keep the passion burning for flash, and if you would like to have a look at the latest project i worked on, it's at http://www.creativemediaaward.com.my
A lot of massive debugging and tweaking needed to be done

Salutes,
ManMeng

updates : yeap, i'm back to bring you guys with the juices I've been overflowed with those creative sites recently. hi world.

Diversify Yourself = Limitless

Isabelle de Vooght
A very good portfolio site (content wise), seeing how this designer successfully conveying message of a car brand's selling point, combining both seemlessly non related object together. Who says you can't do that? That mini site won herself quite few recognition.


ConceptM
Just when I stumbled across this site, i went like, "ah...ok, the simplest idea that people say it might not work, might turn out to be the best idea". And this sparks another reason saying how limitless what kind of outcome Flash can do to you. A newspaper, as a company's site. Who say you can't do that? It's the matter of you want to do or don't want to.


Pardus - Massively Multiplayer Online Browser Game
Let's see, how things evolved nowadays, where prefernce are moving towards browser based application, which installation are void, except that you need to have a fast connection, and a hassle free browser, like Firefox, and a latest plugin from Flash. If you fancy a Shoot & Loot action, head on to The Land of the Dead.


Wayne Kerr Music
This is another site which sparks a good marriage between textures, music, vector graphics and some neat navigation. Though this site has came way back then, and looks dated, but the idea isn't, you might think to grab some inspiration off from different section and make it new all over again, and yes, this site gives a 'narrative-style' of presenting information, the left site and the right side are divided equally, and visually, it's beautiful. :D


Dstrict
Remember a site back in 2004 that appeared for Samsung, and broke the tradition of defining interactivity? And created a 'OH MY GOD' on everyone's mind? Yes, this is the portfolio site for the company that developed that site, DSTRICT, based in Korea, even on this site itself, the navigation and 'interactive experience' are clearly redefined, and how 'exploring navigation' should be. A+ Class Quality & Revolutionary


Pixel::Blog
A blog dedicated towards some rich media application development, another hangout by the Flash Developers discussing on what's hot and not on the scene, plus you'll find at lot of interesting post targetting towards technology, browsers and operating system, good to know you'll learn something extra to optimize your Flash projects.


Crew 11
Latest graduating list of students from HyperIsland, namely crew11, and ready for internship for a period of 6 month (if i remember correctly), which turned out to moving towards a different art direction this time, compared what is usually done, previously, (look Crew9) which suggests a bright and clear look of the graduates, which this time, they decided to move towards a darker theme. This of course, created a lot of conversation between designers, and the reaction and outcome turned out to be very positive and satisfying. Having a web based project as big as this is certainly not an easy task, especially when dealing with more than 5 person involved. (You'll certainly know if you managed any campaign before), deadlines, and commitments, everything. I'd salute and bow to these dudes out there. And of course, HyperIsland is one of my dream land to step on.


SamBakZa
SamBakZa, a very unusual name, but it's already very infamous among Flash animators, especially if you visit NewGrounds frequently for your daily flicks on Flash Animations, you'll see the top 10 having 2 animation did by these 3 talented dude from Korea, titled "There She Is". Of course, what makes them stands out so much from the rest, let's say, Ninjai? Is because the planning and execution would makes your jaw drops upon watching it(the animation). Camera Angles, music and sound effect synching, and well, virtually, you'll have to see for yourself. And this really makes everyone wondering, afterall, is it all about the $$$ or passion? Kudos to them.


TychoMusic
If you'd need a break and in search for a different direction and a retro look, head over to this site, and note the styling done on the site's header, a video, yes.


Swatch
Are you ready for some spring'ing action? Inspired by the latest sets of watches for Spring (note the season). You'll see how bouncy the site would be for you.


Spring By Dannon
*BOING* Those dudes from Juxt Interactive has done it again! I can't stress enough how much I enjoy most of their latest web projects, since NesteaIce, which nominated as the finalist for the Best Sound Category for Flash Forward this year. And also, the not very long ago, Just For the F Of It are also granted the Best Site of the day by TheFwa, man, this guys just really know how to keep the user busy with the brand while keeping the site loading. Pure fun. And clever.


Struck Design
Design, randomness, textures, and design, there's where you can talk about going inside the site.

http://www.oneclub.org/oneshow/osi.php
Probably one of the most enlighting quote that I've saw throughout this year, "If you aren't doing interactive, you'd better get out of the business." Something really that great about this site, is THAT IT IS THAT BIG. And it's almost like the Emmy or Grammies for Interactive Design. Just look at the Gold winners, you'll be amazed on how something that is so unconventional works commercially. And you'll of course, find yourself looking at a vast variety of creative works.