Immersive Garden

       I was searching through the Webby's award page and I found this site, Immersive Garden.  It belongs to a Multimedia artist name Dilshan Arukatti.  The title of the site grabbed me and I was happy to discovered a really inspiring site.  This is the type of site I look at and say, "I want to do that!".  Dilsan's personal site is amazing on its own right.  I really enjoyed the illumination effect from the single point of light along with the profound aphorisms.  The following animations of flowering plants and other media is equally mind-blowing.  The portfolio area is impressive and even skimming through you can see an amazing body of work.  It is a very energizing site and I am happy to have found it.

Jesse

The National Parks Project is an interactive site that encourages exploring not only in the website where one can find endless albums of photographs,films and songs, but also is intended for the actual exploration of the park. Clean in design the site makes it easy to explore park to park it is a good educational tool telling information of each park.

Peeps

Here's an interactive flash piece from the Peeps website. You can play around with it and go to different places to learn stuff or view pictures or watch videos. Also you can get recipes and other stuff to do. It can freeze your browser so be a little careful.

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I make my case

Check it out!
Ok... So I burned a good hour playing around with this site. There are so many different options! Basically its a flash run page that allows you to create a case for your phone, using a number of different artists, shapes, patterns and colors.  I really enjoyed the flash on the first page that takes off wherever you move to mouse. It really makes you want to buy a 40 dollar case without even looking at the actual case!

Bunnykill

Bunnykill is a flash animation about a bunny that fights other bunnies. The animations are graphic and have a lot of blood so don't watch them if you get offended by that stuff. There are more than one of them so if you want to watch them google "bunnykill". Quote from description: "This cute little bunny rabbit with a samurai sword slashes through other bunnies in some kind of fairy tale-like forest."

The first one is here

FlashTextFX

In this post I am going to introduce to you the flash-based program called FlashTextFX. It is a program that utilizes ActionScript 3.0 to present you with a variety of text options in a user friendly, code-free, simple and visually appealing manner. To give you in-depth description of what FlashTextFX is, I'll copy and paste the direct description for your convenience:

"FlashTextFX is a Flash component that creates an unlimited number of high quality text effects in Flash. Includes an easy to use custom interface with real time preview. Option to add multiple effects per textfield. Effects can be saved and loaded for future projects. Customizable scale, position, rotation, opacity, tint, blur and glow. Available for ActionScript 3.0 (Flash CS3/CS4/CS5) only."

http://flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/flashtextfx/

Artist/ Portfolio Exploration: C.J. Yeh

My Mondrian based on my data.

myData=myMondrian is an interactive digital art piece developed by fine artist, CJ Yeh, where the final outcome is a printable work of art made to look like a painting by Piet Mondrian, but is created using the user's data.

CJ Yeh's piece was originally an interactive installation piece at the Queen Museum of Art (2004). Gallery goers were asked to type some personal information into a computer, the software then created a Mondrian like image based on the person's data. These personalized Mondrian-eque compositions were then printed out and placed on the gallery walls.

 myData=myMondrian is not the only digital art piece inspired by a famous fine artist. His other digital work makes "reproductions" of Jackson Pollock  , Philip Glass, Chuck Close , and Rene Magritte's work. myData=myMondrian, as well as the other fun interactive computer programs are found on CJ Yeh's website under the Digital Art link. 

His website is also a great example of how flash can be used to navigate an artist's portfolio, you can use a navigator or links to browse around CJ's page. I would use the navigation, it seems to take you to pages not accessible through the links. Check out TypoGraffiti with the virtual navigator (it's to the far left, by Times Square and Penn Station), you also  might want to click the small circle between the links bar.

Artist Exploration - Fredo Viola

Freda Viola is a multimedia artist and musician. His site, theturn.tv, has a toy-like interface that invites exploration and play. The interface itself is an instrument that you can spin and throw around to make music...

Hello Sour Sally is a fun, interactive game-like experience for a yogurt in Jakarta, Indonesia. I was attracted to hand-drawn illustrated style and fun way to navigate the content.

http://www.hellosoursally.com/