Finally got some good sleep. I think I slept right through my wakeup call so I had to take a later shuttle to the convention center. After getting some Starbucks I headed up to see Chris Orwig’s presentation on portfolios. He is such an amazing teacher and really knows how to captivate the audience. I’ve met Chris before down in Ojai when we were both recording Lynda.com titles. I thought it was a great session.
Next up was a session on sound design that was pretty good but I was hoping for more actual techniques oh how to create sounds, rather than when you should use them.
My favorite session at every Flash Forward is the Big Spaceship session with Garrett Nantz. He showed off some really cool stuff from the upcoming DaVinci Code movie website. The session basically focused on how they do most of their cool stuff in After Effects and then export to Flash video. But I just love his presentations and he seems like a really nice guy.
During the the first session of the day I met up with Dru Kepple, who has used gotoAndLearn() before, works in Hood River, Oregon at a company named Summit. Small world as that’s the name of the group I work in at Stanford. I went out for lunch with Dru and a bunch of his coworkers and reminisced about some old snowboarding videos. Nice meeting you Dru!
After that I ventured into the expo hall and met with the folks from Techsmith, the company that makes Camtasia. I showed them my site and they were thilled with it and are going to use it as a case example. They also interviewed me for a screencast which should be online tomorrow. I post the link when I get it. They also asked me to be on their advisory board which of course I accepted since I use Camtasia nearly everyday. I’m looking forward to working with them in the future!
Then I checked out the JSAPI session which was very informative and showed some cool ways to speed up productivity. But I doubt I will ever mess with it. Too many other things to learn 
I had a meeting with Michael Ninness, who’s the executive director at Lynda.com, and came up with some cool projects for the future. You’ll have to wait to see though as I obviously can’t blog about them. But Michael is probably the most down-to-earth person I’ve ever met and I’m sure I’ll be working with him in some form for quite a long time.
Next up was the film festival. It was really well done but I was a little too tired to enjoy it that much. I think most of the winners deserved to win which is always nice to see. Lynda pulled off an amazing conference this year and really raised the bar. Thanks Lynda!
I’m now in the internet lounge blogging this while everyone is at the after party. One thing I learned about myself years ago, is that I’m not a party person. To some that might sound anti-social but it’s really just a personality type of thing. If I know you well, I’ll act like a maniac. But forced socialization is something I refuse to do. Plus I don’t drink. I prefer prescription medication. Why pay all kinds of money and load on all those calories when I can just pop a xanax?
But seriously, congratulations to all the winners and I hope everyone is having a blast at the party. Hey, to me, doing this is a blast. Different strokes for different folks.
Gotta go catch the shuttle bus so see you tommorow!
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