Re: [microsound] call for content | Digital Salvage v.1

[tattermalion <tattermalion@xxxxxxxxx>]

 one of the problems i think that a number of people, myself included, have with flash is precisely that it tries to bring cinema to the internet. now, i have seen some very interactive and sporty things done with flash (check vectorpark.com or huge's site) but its abuses far outweigh its triumphs. in most cases, flash is used to put a little commercial into a brochure type web site. i think jakob nielson would agree that animation and little movies are not at all usable and ultimately reduce the role of the web user to mere viewer. 
personally, i don't even think that movies should be shown on television sets as they are not designed for such usage. i really think you have to be in a big dark room to see a movie the right way. at the very least you need the "widescreen" addition... 
 
 
 
  Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Flash has the potential to be as expressive as cinema (or at least
contemporary ideas of what defines cinema, according to Lev Manovich's
'Language of New Media' animation is just a subset of cinema as moving
image) but the environment in which most Flash based net art is viewed does
not confer the same reverence as a large projection in a theater.

-km


> There may be confusion as to what is meant by "new". Are we talking
> about a new idea or a new look? If your medium is flexible enough, you
> will always be able to bring about new ideas. I can't imagine how
> painting could reach a point where no more new ideas could be expressed
> through it. It may be, however, that something like Flash is not
> flexible enough to be expressive outside of a small realm.
> I don't know, I haven't used it.
> 
> -- jeremy avnet / brainsik .:. Public Key at http://brainsik.to/pubkey.asc


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