Sidetrack

Samorost2 is a game built in Flash that showcases an impressive array of sounds and visuals. The game storyline is quite inventive, and it engages you to think creatively in order to proceed from level to level. It's not surprising that it won an award at the Flashforward conference in Austin. Brilliant!

The concept of PostSecret is brilliant -- invite people to creatively depict a secret of theirs on a 4x6 postcard and anonymously submit it via mail, all in the name of an "ongoing community art project." Seeing a sampling of the postcards on the PostSecret Blog really struck a chord in me -- it's amazing to see such raw human emotion represented so creatively and how providing people with this outlet elicits such a resonant response. (A compilation of these postcards is also available in a book).

Here's a funny Flash animation called "Cinema Rules" which was created by ILLUSTREE. It was a finalist at the Austin 2006 Flashforward conference Film Festival.