Flash Forward Day 1 - Wrap Up
August 20, 2008 – 11:21 pmThis year theme for Flash Forward is Passion. Passion for Flash or Flashion, as I would say, and Passion for creation and ideas. Here's my quick sum up.
- Keynote speaker, Miha Pogacnik, talks a lot about passion not flash. Relates the music he plays and passion to the professional world. I can sum it up quick: The song he plays in this video is interpreted in this picture which is the evolution of a passion/idea in your life. I dig it.
- Keith Peters shows a time line of Flash. He talks about trends and experimenting. He also bought up the new features in Flash Player 10 (more robust tweening, inverse kinematics, advancement in the drawing API, 3D, better text engine, Pixel Bender which uses the graphics card, better sound API).
- Grant Skinner talked about why he still loves Flash. Its consistant, rapid adoption, creative, coding is art, sexy, its in high demand, the flash community, and way more. He also talked about ScaleForm, which is a video game console flash player. Sites to check out: flashscene.org and osflash.org
- Missed the "In-Depth" sessions because the room was full...Lametown. I wanted to see the Away-3D session but after talking to a few people I heard I didn't miss anything that was really in depth. Here's the site if you want to check stuff out: away3d.com
- Chuck Freedman talks about Ribbit and the Ribbit developer platform. VoIP in flash. Check it out
- Phillip Kurman makes satire videos about technology. Tells everyone to make videos when they're mad. Apparently Adobe contracted him to make more satirical video about anything but Adobe technologies....neat.
- There was a magician. The relation to flash/flex/actionscript is unknown to me. It was a cool show, I guess.
- Robert Hodgin shows off his awesome sound visuals inspired by an LSD trip. Tells us to pursue the things you love. Also demos some live sound visualizations.
- Craig Swann also talks about his passion for doing the things you love. Thing thing that I got the most out of it was: If you're searching for money, you'll never find it. But if you do the things you love, the money will find you. Unless searching for money is something you love....like pirates. Also he was not a large fan of AS3 when it first came out
- Jared Ficklin showed a lot of real life sound visualizations and showed the translation in flash a well.
It was a passion filled day but all in all a good start. I am still missing the old Flash Forward format.
::If my Arnold pals are reading this, feel free to comment and ask questions about a session if you want more details.::
3 Responses to “Flash Forward Day 1 - Wrap Up”
Minor correction… Adobe has commissioned me to make a few videos–but always about Adobe products and events. On my own, I’ve moved on to targeting more general technologies (not just Adobe).
Thanks!
By Phillip Kerman on Aug 25, 2008
Hey Phillip! Thanks for the correction, I must of misheard you when I was laughing during your talk.
By Greg North on Aug 25, 2008
You know, there was one line that could be easily misunderstood. I said:
So I started making satires—and two interesting things happened:
First, Adobe actually liked these videos… I mean, really liking them—so much that they commissioned me to produce several of them. Suffice it to say, Adobe likes being made fun of so much that I’ve moved on to attacking on other technologies.
By Phillip Kerman on Aug 26, 2008