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ff06: flash film festival

Thanks to last night's Flash Film Festival, I'm now the proud owner of a Flash Forward-branded kazoo. Meanwhile, 16 design groups were the proud winners of large orange rubber arrows recognition of their work from the festival judging panel. There were some great, inspiring pieces of works on display, though I was disappointed that only six of the winners (well, five, since one won twice) were on hand to accept their awards personally. (Although I did enjoy John Davey's hilariously profane proxy acceptance speech for the winner of the Art category.)

The winners* and finalists:

Motion Graphics:

• Converse One
• Corpse Bride
• The Havianas*
• The Unseen Video

Application:

• The Bad Luck Test*
• Findr
• Timberland Custom Boot Configurator
• Webcamtastic

Educational:

• Artnatomy
• Curating the City: Wilshire Blvd.*
• GitanEnglish
• Shahzia Sikander: Gods, Griffins and Cowboy

3D:

• Casio G'zOne*
• Dream Studio Design
• Extreme Music
• Paul Holcomb & Clones

Story:

• The Assassination of Richard Nixon
• POBEDITELI: Soldiers of the Great War
• Shakespeare Murder Mystery*
• Zimmer Twins

Art:

• Flash Art
• 99rooms*
• Perpetual Motions: Engrenage
• Phraggles

Typography:

• FBFX
• i2off.org
• Summit City Hip-Hop & Electronic Music Expo
• Words at Play*

Navigation:

• Andreescu and Gaivoronski Architects
• BBDO
• MoMA: Contemporary Voices*
• Remo Drums

Cartoon:

• Aardman Animations
• A Fairly Reliable History of British Films
• Little Foot*
• Sunday Pants Television

Commerce:

• Acura CSX
• Bow Wow
• MD-Extreme
• Tazo Tea*

Original Sound:

• Guitar Shred Show*
• Nestea Ice
• Nims Winter Story
• The Volvo X-Sea Challenge

Technical Merit:

• AsUnit
• Flashed
• RBKCustom.com
• Road Runner Portal*

Game:

• Death in Sakkara
• DOFUS: Tactical MMORPG*
• The Legend of Zorro Game
• Obsessed: The Game

Experimental:

• BlueSuburbia
• Gallery Incomplet*
• LiquidJourney
• Il Mondo del Fubbs

Video:

• Dear Mr. Barroso
• Fly Pentop Computer
• IKEA Dream Kitchen*
• Samsung D600 Mystery

People's Choice:

• DOFUS: Tactical MMORPG*