TAG finds out what's on Colin Moock's radar.

TAG is a quck interview with the different speakers and attendee's at the FITC Toronto 2008. See what Joshua Davis had to say.

The folks at the Dear Toronto video blog have posted a summary video of the Cut&Paste design competition held after the first day of FITC Toronto 2008.

Entries close for the CNMA's on May 5th. Get your entries in soon! Website

Colin Smith sent me this link to a great demo by Michael Coleman from the After Effects team. Its very similar to the great presentation that Colin Smith did at FITC Toronto. Enjoy!

“Why try to ride the tour de France using a tricycle?” says Andrew Bell of The Barbarian Group. By re-evaluating what other alternative tools are out there to solve the challenge, you can save time doing more important things by using the best tool for a particular task.

Another one of the great sessions for FITC for me was Flash Player Internals by Jim Corbett, who as Colin Moock commented is "a real, live Flash Player engineer". Jim proved to be a really great, energetic presenter, talking quickly, giving all sorts of great insight how the Flash Player 9 works as well as information about Flash Player 10.

Tali Krakowsky of Imaginary Forces describes “ambient”, “narrative” and “chorographical” to layout the general framework for what the core topic is about: “Building Fiction”. An interesting play of words where “building” is in reference to structural architecture in the real world and “fiction” plays off the virtual world of the digital domain. In order to build fiction, we must re-evaluate what we display and how we display it using the framework.

For years now a number of well known Flash designers with a knowledge of coding have been using Flash to create programmatic artwork. Joshua Davis' trick of converting Flash vector art into post-script has allowed designers to import Flash art into Illustrator, with certain limitations. Now Dr. Woohoo shows how it has been taken to the next level by creating SWFs that communicate to Photoshop and Illustrator.

My first session of FITC started off with an introduction to FMS3 by Kevin Towes, who is the Flash Media Server product manager at Adobe. Kevin gave lots of interesting info about where Flash video has been, where its going, and some of the new features in the FMS product line.

I did want to blog about Niko Stumpo and his presentation We do it cause we love it. The Nokia marketing reel was very well designed and got an oustanding applause from the audience. I also attended the fractal presentation, Playing with Chaos. It wasn't a wow and pop presentation but if you paid close attention there was a lot of information to take in.

Colin Moock started off his FITC presentation quite differently, by starting it off saying that people should skip his session and go check out Evan Roth's presentation next door. He even gave a quick summary of his presentation and said he wouldn't be insulted if anyone left. One person did get up to leave and Colin asked if he was going to see Evan's presentation, when the guy answered "yes", Colin gave him a free copy of his AS3 book and told the guy to tell Evan that he said hi.

Drum roll please. The winners of the 2008 FITC Awards are...

Speaker James Eberhardt talked about where using 2D barcode technology makes sense and where it does not.

Two very eccentric individuals from Manchester who got sidetracked at various points throughout the presentation, rambled on about off topic things, and used the f-word as an adjective many times.