The saga continues. Went to a couple more awesome presentations – Robert Hodgin of flight 404, and James Paterson of presstube. Interesting story about Robert. I work directly across the street from him on Newbury Street in Boston. We’ve been in touch for a while via email, but never made the effort to actually cross the street and meet in person. Then, when Sam and I were on the plane to Toronto, we realized that the guy sitting in the seat behind us was Robert. Scared the crap out of him when I turned around and said his name.
One thing I’m coming away with from this conference is the desire to get back into more creative Flash (and/or Processing!) My roots in Flash are with the experimental stuff at BIT-101, but in the last year or two, I’ve really been concentrating on components, applications, frameworks, patterns, software design, etc. Cool stuff, but all this cool creative stuff that I’m seeing is making my mouth water. got to get back to that soon.
At night, we went over to the Awards Ceremony. It was good to see Grant Skinner and Craig Swann both win stuff. Then we went to another multimedia dance thing arranged by Craig Swann, Flux. Closed that down around 2 a.m.
Somehow got up early enough to see Jared Tarbell’s complexity talk this morning. Another incredibly creative guy. Everything he does always blows me away. Just hanging out for now. The big events this afternoon are Josh Davis and Yugo Nakamura’s talks. Yugo, Josh and Jared are the three guys who inspired me to create BIT-101 in the beginning.
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What was going on here? Very cool demo of 8ball by the looks of it… http://photos1.blogger.com/img/242/4268/1024/IMG_0517.jpg http://photos1.blogger.com/img/242/4268/1024/IMG_0515.jpg
Yes, they showed two versions. One in Flash 7, which got slower and slower as time went on. The Flash 8 version was very speedy to begin with and stayed really fast even with all those particles moving around. Apparently it has to do with the way thing are rendered as bitmaps so they don’t have to be continuously redrawn on each frame.