Flash In The Can
I am fortunate enough to have been sent (by my company) to the Flash In The Can conference here in Toronto for the last few days. Considered I’ve been working in design / development, more specifically web design / development full time for at least 8 years – it’s about friggin’ time that I started making my way out to these things! I think I’ve stagnated for a good long while and am in desperate need of inspiration and this conference seems to have at least set the gears in motion.
For the designer / developer types – the new features of Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator & After Effects CS3 will blow your mind! Trust!
By far, the most interesting / inspirational speaker for me was Evan Roth from the Graffiti Research Lab in NYC. He’s got a fellowship from an organization call Eyebeam which basically means that his “job†is to come up with fun and interesting ways to use technology to improve the urban landscape. You’d be well advised to spend some time at the GRL site – hopefully it’ll inspire you to do something to make someone smile and make someone else mad as hell at the same time.
Amongst a lot of informative technical seminars, other high points of the last few days included sessions with Brendan Dawes, John Maeda and Alan & Patrick from The Movement. I, unfortunately, missed the Saturday workshop with Joshua Davis which I’m sure would have been good but let’s not pretend that it would have been better than spending the day outside on the most beautiful day of the year with my lady, my friends and all our dogs in the park.
I need to go to the gym.