Paul Neave is a London-based Interactive Web Designer who has taken his expertise with flash (and coding and all that other nerdy nonsense that get’s me all excited) and channeled it into a pretty sweet medium. His homepage, Neave.com, acts like his own “personal interactive playground; a place where I can explore my ideas and try out risky experiments that I wouldn’t normally get the opportunity to make anywhere else”, according to Neave at least. To me, Neave.com functions as a piece of interactive art more than anything else, with the audience manipulating their own experience to their desired end.

The site has many segments.

Imagination is a Jackson-Pollack-esque splatter of wavy lasers and wobbly colors.

Fractal gives a three-dimensional representation of the Mandelbrot fractal, one of a number of very famous three-dimensional functions that extend forever - Neave allows the user to explore the colorful corners and curves of the graph through zooming.

Webcam is a video-wall that is pretty much run as a free-for-all, allowing users to record videos wherever they want on the wall using whatever effects they want.

My favorite, though, is Television, or what Neave calls “Telly without context”. This is basically a series of forty really trippy video clips from all walks of the Earth and the Internet sorted randomly and played, while the user is able to flip through them with only a mouse-click. Sure, at first, the interface may seem like nothing more than a stoner’s paradise, but eventually, Neave’s Television project sucks you in and exposes the mindlessness of modern television along with the purity of meaningless film.

Paul Neave: “I love trying to dissolve the boundaries between code and design and exploring ways of making technology seem less scary and geeky, but more fun and human.”