FlashForward Boston, Day Two
In case you’re wondering what happened on Day One, your guess is as good as mine. I’m playing catch-up to the FlashForward conference in Boston. I missed the first day to wrap up some development on a project, and flew out early this morning to fall into the jetstream of day two. Oscar got here yesterday, so he’s been doing a lot of the networking and recruiting for Domani.
It’s interesting going to one of these after missing the last few years. It’s nice to see guys like Craig Swann continuing to use Flash as a way to creatively realize different forms of input (gestural, sonic, color, etc.). His presentation was full of different jumping-off points for experimentation, and hopefully I’ll get a chance to play with some of the ideas he brought up. I know that some of the work the guys at Domani have been cooking up for the Dumbo Arts Festival is mining the same vein.
I expected the conference to be an all-out Adobe AIR-fest (and there’s a lot of AIR-related content) but I can’t shake the nagging feeling that the general Flash community hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to start using AIR for. It’s similar to the stance that many had with Flex, where they had to figure out where the new technology might fit into their development workflow.
On a personal note I’m crashing with Joseph and Kristen at their new digs in Brighton. It’s always fun to see where your family lives, to form a sense of place that your mind can use to situate them visually.
