Flash Alice - and Jim Flora

Over at spamnet, he's having a prolonged sparkle of flash inspiration I think, as has sourced a lovely animation short of Alice in Wonderland. here it is full screen:

 

http://www.feelgoodanyway.com/interactive/alicepop.html

 

It reminds me alot of the site of Jim Flora, a fantastic Record Cover Designer. I think this guy started doing covers in the thirties, but his style is utterly timeless. Like the flash of Alice, it represents the hep cats of the forties/fifties especially, the epitomy of cool. We don't really have style like this these days do we? I wonder where it all went, that inventiveness and originality.

 

http://www.inhi-fi.com/flora/