I still love the style of flash animation he uses!

I've been coding in earnest, off and on, since about 1991.

Took a Pascal class at the university on the way to an English degree that I never got. Was working for a company at the time that was building mainframe databases using NATURAL and that was my backdoor to the programming world. Worked for them for a few years. My strength at that time was pseudocode, because I was pretty good at talking to the client and figuring out what they wanted.

Did some pretty cool VBA stuff for a long while, then VB/SQL systems for about five years to the point where I can't stand to look at it any more. I destroyed my VB6 and VB.net disks kind of like a madman burning his ships.

Starting my own biz and I'm sticking to the web standards: Javascript, PHP and MySQL. Still not very eloquent where my code is concerned, but I've figured out AJAX and I can usually hook or crook my way into making something work.

I'm one of those people who thinks web-based applications will be "the thing" to come in a big way.

I'm also heretical in that when I get rich, I want to start a project that puts the browser inside of Flash.

Want to do more ActionScript stuff and Flash, animation in particular, but I can't seem to stay off this one cool video site that I know about long enough to make headway.

This has got to be the best Flash animation I've seen in 8 years!!! LOL

they stole this joke from a video or flash animation (can't really remember) that floated around the web in the last presidential race. Where a guy would try to vote for Gore, and the machine, obviously rigged, would only accept votes for Bush.
Shame on you Simpsons writers. You're getting worse by the season.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'electronica, flash animated, relaxing' to 'sydney, downtempo, electronica, illustrator, after effects, relaxing, flowers, poppy' - edited by Eklek

THANKS MYCROFT! ...always have been my favorite doggy physicist.

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*promote... cause I am a creep. I am a weirdo... What the hell am I doing here? I need to go cuddle my puppy. Woo Ohh A Ohhh....

She's snoring on her bed----- She's cute and She has She has a fluffy hehhhhh eeehhhhh edd. FFluffff eeeee Hehhhhhhh ehhhh eddd.

oh come on.. I saw this in flash animation form like..last year.

To steal the words of a wise person, VideoSift addiction is...

...akin to poker machine addiction, as it uses a similar system of intermittent rewards for behaviour, as first expounded by psychologist BF Skinner. The idea is that if you perform action X you can expect reward Y, and this can be mildly conditioning, or "addictive". However, Skinner discovered that this action-reward link embeds itself more firmly in your brain if the reward doesn't come every time, but more or less randomly, as long as it only comes if you perform the prescribed action.

Thus, a poker machine addict will keep hitting the "play again" button like a trained rat so long as the flashing animations and jangly sounds of a win only occur every now & then.

HEY, i even adhered to your top 7

IMPROVE SIFT QUALITY!!

No TITLES missing VITAL info (same for the tags)
No screwed ASPECT RATIO
No SLOW MOTION where not needed
No lame INTROS or outros
No FLASH animations converted to a video
No COMPILATIONS
No pointless SOUNDTRACKS

I loved this song when I was a teenager. Even if it was Radiohead's one attempt at a pop single, it still kicked ass. And the animation is interesting and goes along surprisingly well with the song.

Hmm, I'm betting this was mislabeled as a flash animation. But if it really was, can anyone post a link to the original file? Love to see this in better detail.

Where have I heard that before? I know it was from some cheesy flash animation.
13 minutes later, after being stuck in my head for that long, I've realized its from a YTMND. Though, I can't remember which one...

@moonsammy

No, the Ultimate showdown was done by: music and lyrics- Lemon Demon and the art and Flash animation from Shawn Vulliez.

Hooray Wikipedia!


Oh, and soupskin, good call!

"It's the intarweb's "We Didn't Start the Fire"

Classic flash animation, love it!

It pretty much was one of the first Flash animation/video things out there. One of the first that I remember. "Fire! BAD!"

This short can be found on the "The Animation Show" Vol.1 DVD by, Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt.
It is done by Alex Boduvsky and named Bathtime In Clerkenwell (2002)
Here is some text that came in the DVD booklet about it, very rich.

ALEX BUDOSKY is calling from somewhere in the 917 area code, in New York City where he and his family call home, and his cell phone signal is breaking up. "Basically the entire family emigrated because of, you know, hard times in Russia in the nineties. we left in December of '94, garble garble garble garble garble garble. Yeah. So it was a good choice, I guess." Never having found out what their alternatives were, I have to say I agree with his assesment, the former immigrant who arrived with only artistic aspirations and no English vocabulary to speak of, is now the animator of choice for pop act The Real Tuesday Weld with a singular style and a rising career as a commercial artist.
Budovsky, who was born in St. Petersburg in 1975, came to America with his family and settled in New York, where they all still live. The then not-quite-20-year-old set his sights on higher education, but the fisrt priority was a practical linguistic one. "I didn't speak English when I arrived," he says, "so I went to Brooklyn College and took some English as a Second Language classes. Then I took some film classes, and graduated as a sound designer, with an emphasis on film".
He graduated in 2000 with an aptitude in all the film basics, including editing, screenwriting, and photography, and discovered a program called Macromedia Director, which is now software generally used in business presentations. He began animating as a lark, without any formal training. "I was working as an electrician in the New York City ship terminal and doing film in my spare for fun", he says, "so I just had fun entertaining myself".
At a friends house, he happened to hear Where Psyche Meets Cupid, a collection of droll cabaret/electronica by Stephen Coastes, a.k.a. The Real Tuesday Weld. He immediately decided to make a video for the haded hip-hop/hot jazz ballad "Terminally Ambivalent Over You".
"I knew nothing about copyright", Budovsky says, "and one of my friends told me, 'You can't just use this guy's music. You have to at least contact him and ask for permission'. So I wrote him and asked for permission, even though the film was laready made. He gave me permission. I waited several weeks, and sent him the film". The Flash-animated depiction of a love-distracted prisoner on a Gramaphone assembly-line unfolds mostly in black and white with a few color accents, and barring the contemporary soundtrack and the ultra-clean frame, it could pass for a particularly accomplished product of the Kruschev-era Zagreb Studio of former Yuogoslavia.
Coates loved what he saw, and sent Budovsky sketches for the songs from his upcoming CD "I, Lucifer". Alex heard "Bathtime in Clerkenwell", decided it was destined to be a hit, and immediatly set to work on a vdieo. The demented product is full of confused humans, belligerent cuckoos, and princers dangling over assembly lines - icons that seem to recur often in Budovsky's work. Don't bother asking where they come from, though, because Alex doesn't have a clue. "I never even think about what I do. It just comes out on its own", he laughs. "I can't really explain how all those characters appear."
To Budovsky's surprise, once Bathtime started making the festival circuit in 2002, it began to pick up an array of prizes, and the notoriety led to more shorts and commercials. He's worked on campaigns for Lucozade and Converse, his latest short is a music video based on Geoff Muldaur's version of "Brazil". Budovsky reworked the song with the help of The Real Tuesday Weld and friend Girt Chatrou (who is a two-time world champion whistler). He couldn't secure an internet license for "Brazi", but most of the rest of Budovsky's work is online at his own Figli-Migli Productions web site. (It means "low jinks.")
Budovsky doesn't have any feature film plans at the momment; his work method wouldn't support it. "All of my films - I don't do any pre-production whatsoever", he says. "I don't do scripts, I don't do storyboarding or animatics. I just build the film shot-by-shot, and halfway through the film I don't know what the end is going to be". For Alex, up to this point, short form has been the way to go because of the amount of contol he carries on the prokect. "In animation, you're a king, and you're a god, and you can accomplish so much alone", he laughs but adds, "I do like to collaborate though. It's exciting to see where people's input can take you."

/my wrists hurt, probably typos