Nabeel Al-Shamma

This last Wed I was at the awards ceremony for the Flashforward Film Festival. I was totally blown away by the amazing creations of Flash developers. We saw ~30-second trailers of each movie or site, which was fine as we saw all 60 finalists (in 15 different categories). A number drew from commercial work for ecommerce sites, we saw some movies and games, and some animated artwork. All of the finalists work can be found at http://flashforwardconference.com/finalists. (I don't see the winners for each category posted yet.)

A few of my favorites:
http://www.dqbooks.com/
http://www.zumbakamera.com/bendito.html
http://www.reisenthel.com/ (click on products then use buttons at bottom)
http://media.academyart.edu/freeclass/index.html
http://illustree.at/referenzen/oe3_spot_english/ (this is hilarious)
http://www.cove.org/flade/ (very cool physics engine demos)
http://www.agencynet.com/
http://www.samorost.net/samorost2/

Finally, I wasn't quite sure where to put this, but it's my favorite quote from the overall show, by speaker Brendan Dawes while talking about digital watch that required pressing a button to see the time.

“Cool and stupid go together a lot of the time”