the newzealand one totally blew my mind. not from a website/usability viewpoint, but as a photography fan. that is so beautiful, maybe the first time ever a website made me a bit emotional. I’m not that much of a designer, but this stuff is fascinates me.. it will find beautiful uses, just you wait :)
maybe we should make a distinction between “actual websites” and webpages/pamphlets. and that’s not dissing those “pamphlets”, they serve a slightly different purpose after all. a good website is a bad pamphlet and vice versa, if you catch my drift. you can’t have flashy and “easy and fast to use on a regular basis” at the same time? that’s not possible I think, there’s always a trade-off… but of course that’s just a challenge to be proven wrong :D
thanks for posting these all! it got me much more interested in parallax scrolling stuff than I was before. particularly the nizo one… I think I’ll try to make something that combines CSS animations/keyframe positions, and background positions with the window scroll position(s), maybe the mouse pointer and whatnot.. ohhh.. *inspired*
