Flash activism

Little did I know that online messages or advertisements like Store Wars are examples of what is called “Flash activism”. Flash activism comes from the software, Flash, which allows you to create animations. Flash is cartoonish in appearance, and represents a trade off in simplicity of animation quality for extreme speed in animation development.

Here is an introduction to flash activism by the major player in the field, Free Range Graphics. The site contains a dozen examples of their best work.

To view the best in flash and short film activism, see the Fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festival.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 at 10:24 am and is filed under activism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Flash activism”

  1. liam says:
    6/28/2005 at 4:06 pm

    In a slightly unrelated note, I finally became irritated enough with flash ads to get the flashblock plugin for firefox.

  2. sieber says:
    6/29/2005 at 12:21 am

    You know what they say? If you’re not with the activists then you’re with the….

  3. liam says:
    7/4/2005 at 12:06 am

    pacifists? (harhar)