Sometimes flash development intrigues me. I’ve played with flash before, and I’ve found it to be fun but challenging. I know it does a lot of the (what seems to be difficult) fancy things for you, such as tweening and custom motion paths, but it’s still challenging. I’d like to watch someone work on a site such as http://www.thibaud.be/, just so I could see how difficult it truly is. I don’t think I’d ever consider flash for a site, but there’s a part of me that would like to be proficient at it. Proficient enough to build a basic site with good flash practices, at least.
This portfolio is clever and fun to look at. Try spinning one of the tags around. Or throwing one across your screen. Then open a couple, look through them, and close them. Notice how they go down to their respective spot in the line-up? I think that’s awesome. And I don’t know if you noticed, but if you happen to click on a tag that has an embedded flash movie, while the movie is loading, the preview image is wiped out. Cool stuff. You simply can’t do those kinds of things without flash.