Etchings on the Attic Wall

This site, hosted by USAToday, shows a Flash animation of how the International Space Station was assembled.  It shows the dates that each module was added as well as future additions.  You can click on each section for a more detailed look.

This is the personal web site of interactive designer Paul Neave.  He is an expert with Flash and uses this web site to showcase his interactive tools, toys, games, art, animation, applications, and user interfaces.  His planetarium is very cool (which I’ve written about before) and so is his Earth animation.

I posted a fun timeline / clock in the past.  Here is another one.  The green line represents the current time and the individual rows move underneath it as time moves along.  You can also download this as a screen saver.

Here’s another fun game, called W.R.A.X.,  that falls in line with other similar games such as Tetris (object matching).  You move this thing called a “Katra” around the outside perimeter of the board.  The goal is to drop it so it lands on others below that look the same (3 or more similar ones to [...]

This is a cool Flash site. Called “Breathing Earth“, It shows a map of the Earth and, in real-time, shows the CO2 emissions created by every country, including the birth and death rates. The owners of this web site are trying to emphasis how serious of an issue global warming is. There [...]

Here’s a different web site. Do you find it romantic to name the stars for your significant other? At this site called “Rule the Stars“, you can create your own star constellation, connect the dots, have it transformed into 3D, and then send it to someone. You can create anything you want [...]

Do you remember these stick figure animations called “Xiao Xiao“? They first popped up around 2001 and were extremely popular. These are Flash cartoons created by Chinese animator Zhu Zhiqiang. He created 10 originals that can still be found on the Internet. There are also a bunch of parodies out there [...]

If you want to see a snapshot of the world’s news headlines, check out this web site.  It uses Flash to grab headlines from all over the world and collapses them into little boxes for easy viewing.  You can search by country or just view a particular category of news.  When you click on the [...]

Like people watching?  If so, check out this web site.  Photographer Simon Hoegsberg photographed regular people over a 20 day period on a bridge in Berlin, Germany.  He combined it all together in a scrolling view of humanity.  Very interesting array of people
http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html

Here is a very cool Flash animation by Adobe for the launch of their Flash CS4.
http://adobecards.com/