Flash Forward, Day Three
Day three kicked off with a keynote by John Maeda. He spent the first part of his keynote giving background on his evolution as a digital artist, and the sources of inspiration for his work. He had a funny joke about his mom thinking Samsung was a person he was working with, Mr. Sam Sung. I’m about to read his latest book, The Laws of Simplicity.
The last third of the keynote was devoted to a presentation of E15, a new visualization environment for code/web content/somethingorother. Some details are here. Four of Maeda’s grad students made the presentation.
I attended a couple of other sessions, including “AIR Out of the Box” by Keith Peters of Bit-101. That one was a lot of fun, demystifying the new AIR runtime as simply “Flash Player on Steroids” as well as decoupling the AIR development process from Flex.
