Re: FLASH: Organic flash: 2 great examples

[Kurt Dommermuth]

> > http://brittle-bones.com/

>

>I'm sorry... was I supposed to be able to read that teeny-tiny gray type

>font against those black backgrounds?

>Yeah, Nielsen is right in some regards.

>Didn't stay.

>

> > http://cmart.design.ru/ the piece called "desperanzza" just about broke my

> > heart.

>

>Ick.

>I guess I just wasn't in the mood for artsy-fartsy stuff.

>Especially depressing artsy-fartsy stuff.

>

>My opinion only.


You're right.  that text is way too small, but in my humble opinion, 

brittle-bones is *Art* and I don't think the same design rules apply to it 

as they would to a Yahoo or Amazon.  There should be no rules at all.


In any case, if you had stayed your probably wouldn't have liked the 'art' 

either.  That is understandable too.  It is not easy stuff to 

ingest.  Besides, our lifes are busy enough as they are and who has time to 

contemplate the musings of another? Especially when it isn't too 

rosy?  Frankly, I seldom do (though I ask others to ingest my musings all 

the time).   I consider myself lucky though, that last night for a few 

hours I was receptive.  As a human being, my heart raced and I could relate 

to some pretty hairy angsting that a fellow human was enduring.  As a flash 

designer/programmer, because i realize more an more that I'm getting 

downright sick of vector graphics and my eyes were opened to an alternative 

way to use flash.  The computer is so cold as it is.


For me, (and yes i want it to be for you too dammit) the value was that 

maybe these two sites will help my own flash style evolve and even more 

amazingly my understanding of myself.  Pretty grand and melodramatic, but 

real, to me, nonetheless.  at least for a little while.


Okay.  Now I'm sounding like a drama queen.  Strangely, I recognize how 

distasteful this will all be to many folks who may read it, yet I send it 

anyway.  !?


thanks for the venue.


Kurt

http://www.dommermuth-1.com



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