RE: FLASH: 2 Silly Flash Cartoons here...

[Cummins, Rob]

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From: Karin Christensen[SMTP:karincccosmo [dot] net]

> Sent: 	20 October 1999 00:18

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: 	Re: FLASH: 2 Silly Flash Cartoons here...

> 

> Here is the address for the Science site.

> http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~faculty/wagner/movieindex.html

> 

> To make myself clear as to the other posts.  I agree that we don't

> have to be serious all of the time, being home of the tap dancing

> caterpillar.  I will continue to take exception to music lyrics of

> "kill them all" or "kill you all" or whatever that is aimed at kids.

> I will just not accept it as being okay.  It is not responsible.  It

> is not humorous.  It is dangerous.

> Karin

> 

Hmm... Karin, I would like to say a couple of things. First of all, you must

remember that

Shockwave.com has it's own agenda. Gone are the days of the old shocked site

of the day, where

a site stood on it's own merits. The new Macromedia agenda is to become an

internet media presence,

and the way they're going about this is by doing entertainment. Just as a

documentary on Virology would

probably be passed up in favour of a cartoon involving Giant Killer Robots,

the same seems to have happened to you.  Macromedia's objective is to

promote their own technology and create web traffic... and this generally

means pushing content that is entertaining rather than educational. Although

they would like you to think otherwise, Macromedia are not here to be

arbiters of good taste, or judges of creativity. How many technically bad

sites have been SSOD just because they were part of a well known brand or

franchise?


Secondly, with regard to your comments on Radiskull... Consider

"traditional" children's entertainment: Red riding hood, Jack & the

beanstalk, and anything by the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl...all of these

feature big scary characters who threaten to eat or kill various people.

Just because it's set to a rock soundtrack doesn't make it any different in

my opinion. Look at Sesame Street characters like Oscar the Grouch or The

Count... part of their appeal is that they are initially what you would

consider "scary" (a green monster that lives in a trash can, a vampire ) but

they are actually quite cute and fun. I'd say the same thing is true of

Radiskull & Devil doll... (Devil doll is quite cute anyway)


Thirdly, Flash is for everyone. It can be used for whatever purpose the

person who buys the software sees fit. I don't think it's fair to criticise

someone for producing entertaining content with it. 


Anyway, that's my two pence.


Alias|Rob



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