Wow! This is a really cool app. You can drag and drop different video, audio and scratch clips to the timeline to create your own version of this provocative commercial for Old Spice men’s deoderant.

http://www.whensheshot.com/

By the way, if anyone knows who built this please let me know. I’d love to talk with the developers.

mdowney –at– macromedia.com

[via Daemonite]

Talented design shop and animation studio, Nectarine, is at it again (see MXDU keynote openers) with this new animated short that they have produced for network television.

From their website:

Real World is a 4 minute animation created by Nectarine for Film Victoria’s “Four Minute Wonders” program. It’s our visual response to the song ‘Little Town’ by Amalia Fitzgerald.

Real World uses Apple’s recently released Motion software to bring together plasticene models, Flash-generated 2D animation, and 3D objects.The editing was done with Final Cut Pro, and output at 1024 x 576 for digital hi-res broadcasting.

More here: http://www.nectarine.com.au/virtualstudios/realworld/

Wow - I’m finding all sorts of cool Flash content throughout IBM’s site. Here’s another interesting site that is laid out as a monthly newsletter. It utilizes Flash and Flash video in a very effective way.

Note that you must sign up for their free email newsletter in order to view most of the content.
http://forwardview.showmail.tv

I was just researching corporate “Our vision of the future” sites and came across this nicely done portal for IBM’s “On Demand Business” campaign. If you dig around the site you’ll find all sorts of cool uses of Flash - including effective use of Flash video.

Explore the foundations of On Demand Business. Learn how to start, sustain and fine-tune your company’s ongoing evolution.

View the site here.

This is another cool Flash video site.

http://sho.com/video

I found this through my regular check of 2advanced.com’s portfolio page (I love their work). It looks like they built yet another cool microsite for Ford Motor Company which shows off the new 2006 2005 Ford Mustang.

I really like the use of short, quickly downloaded, high-quality videos used to provide a better visualization of the new car. One of my favorite sections on the site is “Sound”. Catering to the target customer (someone like me), they are effectively communicating the experience of the raw horsepower (insert Tim Allen-style grunting here…).

I’m a long-time fan of the Ford Mustang (I’ve owned three, including my current baby, the Roush Stage 3 but I’m not sure that I really dig the new body style of the 2006. This may finally convince me that it’s time for a SUV…

MaryQuits.com takes you on an interactive Flash video tour, presented as a video blog, of Mary’s 28-day crusade to quit smoking. This is an effective way to communicate a difficult message in a more engaging way.

Visit maryquits.com

I’ve always found it kind of interesting that Apple seems to have no Flash content on their website. Even Microsoft doesn’t use Windows Media for everything. Of course we don’t really use anything other than Flash, HTML, and CSS on our own site (as far as I can tell). We did use Quicktime for a lot of our learning content before we added video support to Flash Player, though.

In any case… While having a discussion about this at lunch today, one of our developers mentioned that Apple uses Flash for their .Mac learning center.

Cool!

… Coincidentally, I decided to sign up for a .Mac account today.
UPDATE: here’s some even better Flash content on apple.com - http://www.apple.com/education/hed/students/ (thanks Robertson!)

Join the Macromedia Mobile and Devices product team for a live, one-hour online seminar and learn how you can develop rich, engaging, and easy-to-use content for mobile devices using Flash MX Professional 2004 and the Flash Lite 1.1 CDK.

Description:

Creating compelling content for mobile devices with Flash MX Professional 2004

We’ll kick off with some examples of Flash content for supported mobile phones, and review the Flash Lite 1.1 CDK, which is intended to assist you as you create mobile content and provides you with authoring guidelines, interface elements, examples and more. You will learn how to publish Flash Lite 1.1 SWF files from FMX Pro 2004 and how to create a sample application.

We’ll look at all these solutions and more and also answer your questions so you can get started developing content for mobile phones with Flash MX Professional 2004 and the Flash Lite 1.1 CDK.

Register here.

I just found this on my Y! homepage. It’s a simple app (similar to the Flash Video Gallery) that walks users through Yahoo’s choices for the top 100 moments on the Web. It’s kind of a fun walk through the last 10 years. Sad to see that “NakedNews”, the “dancing baby” and “Hot or Not” made the list.

What do you think was the most interesting moment in Web history? I think my favorite was the dotcom launch party. I don’t remember which dotbomb it was, but I remember one spending more than half of their VC, upwards of $50M, on their launch party in Vegas. Good times…

http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/