Got a good night’s sleep finally and managed to get some breakfast at the hotel. Plain bagel, yogurt, and OJ. Dieting sucks but I have to get my weight down if I want to last longer than 5 minutes in BJJ. Took the shuttle bus to the convention center and the driver mentioned that he wanted to get into design and was learning Photoshop. After talking with Michael Ninness, he agreed to give him a free 3 month subscription to Lynda.com. They really are the coolest company I’ve ever worked with. I can relate to the driver’s situation because I was a security guard learning HTML when I landed my first gig.
The first session I went to was with Hillman Curtis, who is has been called the master of web video. Well I’m sorry to say that I found his session really boring and wasn’t that impressed with his work. Typical New York artsy fartsy stuff. Just not my thing.
Next up I checked out the Techsmith presentation which was good but I basically know Camtasia inside and out already so I basically just checked email. Then they gave us free lunch in the expo hall and most importantly, coffee. I basically just found an empty room and chilled out for a while.
Up next I wandered into the Deconstructing Nitendogs site session. They have a very nice site, but to be honest, by that point I was daydreaming and getting sleepy. You wouldn’t think so, but going to a conference is VERY tiring. Just trying to absorb so much material in so little time is tough.
I sat through Beau Amber’s GIS mapping thingy but it was some pretty technical shit. All I took away from the session was that I don’t want to work with maps. His work was really impressive though.
Last but not least, I sat through Steve Kilisky’s After Effects session. It showed some cool AE features but didn’t really go into how it can be integrated with Flash.
Then there was the raffle and giveaway. No I didn’t win anything. That’s fine for me because I have most books and software anyway. If the tone of this posting sounds down it’s becasue I’m literally falling asleep as I write this. But just wanted to get it out tonight.
Got to talk to Lynda for a few minutes after the conference about future projects and there’s some really exciting stuff coming up.
All in all, Lynda.com did an amazing job at revamping the conference. It felt like a totally different conference. The venue was great, the sessions were good, And I met a lot of nice people.
It’s bed time. But I’m friggin’ starving. I barely ate all day. Should I just got to bed or make some food? Why am I asking you this?
Night,
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