Something2

Boaz Zippor

"Something2" is an interactive flash page by Boaz Zippor, an Israeli artist born in 1972 now working in Thailand as a photographer. He has an extensive resume as a commercial graphic artist. "Something2" is an earlier example of his web art from 2001, a follow up to an earlier piece called "Something." The work is a blend of abstract visual web art, music, and poetry created in flash. The artist refers to it as "Yet another useless site you never expected" and he's right. But that is in some ways the purpose of web art, to just sit out there, unexpected, and to have people stumble upon it. Once found, the viewer can explore and enjoy it as they please.

It was interesting to watch and play around with the piece as we begin learning flash as it becomes easy to identify elements of the composition and how they were created. For example, the squares at the bottom of the screen work exactly like the buttons we created in class, including rollover graphic changes. One can also make out the tweening and looping going on. One interesting thing I noticed in writing this that I wouldn't have had I not been taking the time to write this is that, over time, the image in the backround changes.