8th flashconference ® May 05 - 06 / 2006 +++ blog space
+++ THU Jun 02, 10.15am
Greez from the outer space ;-) I'm sitting in a 27° surrounding reading about Germany's late winter... oh guys! Edith takes her motorscooter to go to work in MUC... unbelievable! Rich wrote, he's afraid Germany will win the soccer world cup... because all other teams will freeze! But there are good news: David Riedel lauchned his new website: http://www.a2-17.com/ ..::::... check it out!
+++ TUE Jun May 30, 11.45pm
wow! I visited the flashforward website right now and ... saw Mario's workshop on their program! Congratulations!!! He will speak about Mashup Baby... and it seems that one can see some more insides of his ideas on existing Website API's ... like what he presented with his Islands Of Consciousness workshop on this year's flashconference ...
+++ SUN May 28, 5.30pm
Folks! don't wonder, that there's no daily new flash here ;-) I'm preparing my next trip right now... and if you would like to join me ... check your luggage! I can tell you that there's so bad weather here! Anyway I expect 30° soon ... and I'll give you some impressions ;-)
+++ FRI May 26, 9.05am
A new contact dropped in ... from Bollywood ... and I hope we'll do something together next year! Cross your fingers!!!
+++ THU May 25, 11.37pm
CDV blogs on their website about their nomination of "war front" for the realtime film festival: "Tamás Fodor, Digital Reality: 'We are proud of this nomination, which shows that our e fforts are appreciated. We can produce top notch cut-scenes and trailers — which is a must today — in our own rendering studio. In War Front, these scenes serve to support the alternative historical and Hollywood-ready story.That's why we set a new benchmark in the strategy genre'."
+++ MON May 22, 11.44pm
Some wondered about the font of the fmx website - it's cool and today I found it: it is tripleX bold ;-)
+++ SUN May 20, 12.05pm
Marc Thiele - well known in the flash scene wrote: "Unfortunately i could only attend and enjoy one day, since i was very
busy.
Overall it was great though. The workshops were not extremely
technical,
the things holger and mario presented were very inspiring without
diving
into technicalities.
I'm going to comment on that in my blog.
Perhaps i'll be there a little bit longer next year." ... and I hope this will come true ;-)
+++ SUN May 20, 11.50am
Frederik Ring feed-backed that way: "I found the flash conference program to be well balanced between technical and creative content. It was a shame that Nina Paley's presentation took place at the same time as 2minutes' presentation – making it impossible to join both of them. Next year, everything related to flash should take place at the flash conference and should be more intensively linked to the real-time film festival."
+++ SUN May 20, 3.30am
Benjamin Herholz - who performed together with Sven Loskill for the well know German Agency "Jung von Matt" about his impressions... wow that's a long version ;-)
"
The flashconference was excellent and fun. As to the integration into
the fmx I can only say, they are one thing! And it looked very
professinal. In general I feel like the flashconference makes perfect sense as a
part of the fmx, given that the flash world transformed from a shadow
existence for simple animation to a complete package for digital
content and ideas.
In my opinion: what we can see happening now, integration of video,
interactive television, multimedia installation, and more is just the
beginning. I am very anxious and excited on what will happen.
The program was extremely interesting, the visitors were absolutely
amazing, especially the contacts one could make:
from nvidia
chiefcoder, a sony entertainment filmprofessional up to a ibm digital media
employee from Taiwan.
It's a slightly different world than ours. And that's exactly why it was so delightfull. I found very interesting, how the flash platform is slowly being respected more and more by renowned pros from other areas of the field (postproduction, visual effects,...). it's not a small toy for designers any more, and I'm really glad about that. I would have expected more
pittyfull smirks."
THX a lot for your feedback Ben!
+++ SUN May 20, 0.22 am
Marcel Fahle sent me the following feedback: "I had so much fun, the organization was perfect and the location
unique. Unfortunately i was not able to attend all the workshops, since I met
so many old friends - there was a lot to talk about. But the workshops I
did see, were top notch! Overall - compliments for you, the team, the nice girls and all the
others! No question - we'll be there next year!" - thx a lot ... I'm sure we'll apreciate it!!!
+++ SAT May 19, 4.30 am
The flashconference recap is now online - download doc or pdf
+++ FRI May 18, 10.30 pm
Gary wrote me from Canada - he uploaded his flashconference files to his website and wrote: "Personally, I wanted to thank you for inviting me. I remember reading
your original email and wondering... is this guy was for real? Lucky
for me, you were (...) I was (...) utterly mentally energized
from all the people I met, the city of Stuttgart, the culture and just
finding myself on the other side of the world. The conference really treated me well. I loved being in Europe. It was great to walk around the city and drink it all in. The mix at the conference was totally inspiring. I thrive on people who
are intense in their work. People who love their work produce great
work. I go to these events to see, listen, talk and most importantly,
be inspired by the best out there. How could you not be inspired?" ... and be sure that I want him again in Stuttgart next year!
+++ WED May 17, 6 pm
Oh folks I'm really tired ... but anyway - John Mamais from aconygames and member of the realtime film festival jury on the fmx, where I was in the role as head of program - ... ok he answered on my idea to specify the flash category into interactive and non-interactive entries: "I was actually partial to the interactive entry which
imo
is the strength of using Flash for animation. You could split the
category
to interactive and non-interactive." I'll think over that ...
and I'll have a lake-tour around munich tonight ... going to the Ammersee and Starnberger See-you ;-)
+++ TUE May 16, 11.59 pm
... guess what: the project crew girls took me to the cinema for mission impossible tonight ... screaming around me * ;-) * and ... be sure ... they have some really cool visual effects... it's worth to cry ... uuups try ... and if you'd like to be a hero ... invite the girl(s) you want to rescue ;-) *g (... this is only the begin of my first film project's storyline ;-)
+++ MON May 15, 11.30 pm
Mario Klingemann wrote "The flash conference was a lot of fun once again (...) I thought the choice of speakers was outstanding, and the workshops overall were very productive; there was everything from keyframe animation to hardcore coding. All of the sessions I attended were most interesting and smoothly presented by the speakers".
+++ SUN May 14, 04.22 pm
Hermes - nominee for the realtime film festival / categroy flash - from Italy wrote: "the flashconference/fmx was a big surpirse for me. All was fantastic! In Italy there's no festival like this. Thank you for all and see you next year!"
+++ SAT May 13, 11.15 am
Jens France blogged his impressions on the flashconference and fmx - check it out here
+++ SAT May 13, 6.30am
David Riedel - winner of the realtime film festival 06 in the category "machinima": "I regret attending the fmx only one day. I watched 4 very interesting
presentations on realtime. The program is superb, however i would have
liked more screenings, actually i would have appreciated full length
screenings even non-cut.
The people were extremely nice, to be honest: every single one i met!
Additionally one was able to make great contacts and network. The award ceremony could have been attended better, but I must admit, overall I
really enjoyed it. I thought it was really exciting and I will
definitely drop in next year."
+++ FRi May 12, 11.05 pm
Patrick from Pixar wrote, that he's back and will talk to his colleagues for the 20 years of animation exhibition... coming to Stuttgart ... cross your fingers!
+++ THU May 11, 10.49 pm
Karin Wehn - Realtime Film Festival Jury Member wrote: "I was very impressed with this year's fmx at which I heard many interesting presentations and novel ideas. I really hope to be part of next year’s fmx!" ("Ich war insgesamt sehr sehr angetan von der FMX und habe dort viele
interessante
Vorträge gehört und Anregungen erhalten und wäre gerne im nächsten Jahr
wieder
mit von der Partie")
+++ THU May 11, 2.11 pm
Nina Paley wrote me a feedback ... read here: "FMX was the best-organized event I've ever attended (...)I think FMX was
the first conference - as opposed to just festival - I've attended, and
I much preferred it. Everyone I met was deeply engaged in the
creative/film/animation/effects world, and the interactions were more
meaningful than I've had at festivals, where most attendees are
spectators and only a few are "stars." I enjoyed the broad scope of FMX
presentation topics, which exposed me to new ideas and people. Before
the FlashConference I didn't think I (as a more traditional animator)
had anything to offer to the larger community of Flash users, let alone
VFX artists, but it turns out I did."
+++ THU May 11, 0.40 am
I've been out with some exciting people from a model contest in Munich talking about a new fashion production which should be flash enhanced ... wow ...
+++ WED May 10, 3.20 pm
Nina did another fmx / flashconference 2006 review - click here
+++ TUE May 09, 11.15 pm
Matias from visual orgasm promises to come to one of the future flashconferences ;-) and asked me to promote their shirt-contest
+++ TUE May 09, 04.10 pm
Nina Paley wrote an email - back in NYC - an gave me the URL with some of the pictures she took in Stuttgart: check it out here
+++ TUE May 09, 0.32 am
is there anybody in Cologne for the Adobe days? would be interesting to hear about it!
+++ TUE May 09, 0.30 am
uuups there was a wrong link on the pictures webpage for May 06 ... I corrected it... sorry!
+++ MON May 08, 2.45 pm
André informed me, that his PC was infected by the W32.Rontokbro@mm worm during the fmx via network on a shared drive - please check if your computer was on the network, if there's any impact of this worm - check out m3nghua.com and/or Symantec's website for more information.
+++ SUN May 07, 4.00 pm
I had a cool cabrio-trip together with Gary after breakfast in the sun on the Wilhelmsplatz... where we met a crowd of girls ... ok I do not mention their guys ;-) we took a ride roundabout Stuttgart, went to the Killesberg Park to climb up the sightseeing tower and ... I'm sorry that I'm always walking so fast ;-) ... good food nearby the television tower - even if I couldn't translate the German menu card ... talking about nearly everything ... and our children... ! Gary promised, that he will make an entry for next years' realtime film festival ;-)
+++ SUN May 07, 9.00 am
wow! flashconference feedback emails in my mail account! thx a lot! An I've got a report from our San Francisco office about this "web application platform", US patent 5,838,906 - which means that flash isn't displayed automatically in the Internet Explorer... check it out ...
+++ SUN May 07, 1.30 am
I'm so tired but I m u s t put the pictures of the day onto the web ... thinking all about all these impressions, people, relations, opportunities, news... which I've got on the 8th flashconference! I've already forgotten all sleepless nights since november last year, which I took to organize that great event... and hope that you all enjoyed it! If you have any feedback please mail it to me!
+++ SUN May 07, 0.30 am
... got an email from the fmx... about 5.000 visitors this year!!!
+++ SAT May 06, 7.15 pm
Closing of the 8th flashconference with warmly thanks to Claudi, Nina, Benjamin, André, Dirk, Frederik, Gary, Gerd, Greg, Holger, Jörn, Mario, Sven, our audience, all the fmx staff, thanks to Mrs Mozer, Mrs Hägele and Mr Hägele and very special thanks to Adobe Systems and Stefan Prestele!
+++ SAT May 06, 6.00 pm
"I'm not Matthias" ... André clarified the situation and made a spontanious Actionscript 3.0 firework ... promising additional stuff next year!
+++ SAT May 06, 5.00 pm
Gary starts again an amazing tour into liquidjourney's virtual world... get excited on his virtual Bonsay gardens
+++ SAT May 06, 4.00 pm
"Uncle" Tom joint Mario Klingemann's stunning multimedial performance...
and we are missing Matthias Kannengießer again ;-(
+++ SAT May 05, 3.00 pm
Fulminant echo on Nina Paley's "it doesn't look like flash" presentation
+++ SAT May 06, 1.15 pm
Gerd Hilgemann was so nervous about his first workshop in his life... and after technical problems with the beamer he starts with an impressing show!
+++ SAT May 06, 2.10 pm
André Michelles workshop must be closed for late entries because of overcrowding
+++ SAT May 06, 11.15 am
Amazing Nadja visiting the flashconference!
+++ FRI May 05, 9.30 pm
... got an email from Rod Jagodzinski: he is unfortunately ill and his workshop tomorrow at 12.00 am is cancelled - all the best from here!
+++ FRI May 05, 5.30 pm
I met Patrick from Pixar and Prof. Schulz from the university for media in Stuttgart for an appointment with Angela Matyssek from the art museum of Stuttgart to check out the possibilites for Pixar's 20 years of animation exhibition in Stuttgart's new glas cube museum
+++ FRI May 05, 2.10 pm
wuhh! we must close the session with Holger Eggert for late entry audience because it's overcrowded!
+++ FRI May 05, 10.10 am
the 8th flashconference is opened and Greg Rewis does a cool workshop about Video integration into Flash via XML ... and he gives a technical preview on APOLLO - Adobe's vision of an integrated on/offline platform for pdf, flash, html and applications ... cool!
+++ FRI May 05, 9.00 am
technical check for the flashconference - everything is up and running! many thanks to the technical crew of the fmx - especially J. Genannt!
+++ THU May 04, 12.15 am
I met Michael Moerte from Adobe and he introduced me to Greg Rewis who will be on the flashconference tomorrow as opening session at 10... featuring Video in Flash and guess what: talking about APOLLO ... Adobe's hottest news about the flashplayer productline ... ignore us - at your own risk!
+++ THU May 04, 0.15 am
yesterday's pictures are live ... check it out
+++ WED May 03, 8 pm
dry run for the realtime film festival award ceremony ... how exciting!
+++ WED May 03, 4 pm
I met Patrick James from PIXAR and he did a great show with detailed information about their workflows
+++ WED May 03, 3.24 pm
The Sueddeutsch Zeitung online reports the realtime film festival - category flash ... how exciting!
+++ WED May 03, 2 pm
Nina Paley presents Fetch - the first flash film on 35mm format in the realtime session in the Cinema Metropol ... and what a surprise: Alfred a former student of her from Nairobi is present!
+++ WED May 03, 10.15 am
I met Michael Brink from das werk in Düsseldorf queuing in front of the check in counter ... I have an idea ;-)
+++ WED May 03, 8.55 am
Hugh Hancock is ill - all the best from here! David Mass - a colleague - will
hold the realtime film festival session about BloodSpell +++ get better informed +++ read the flashconference news ;-)
+++ 'WED May 03, 1.00 am
I met Nina Paley on the fmx party tonight and I'm really excited about her!
+++ TUE May 02, 10.00 pm
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE FMX ... the show begins!
+++ TUE May 02, 8.00 pm
about 100 speakers already in town tonight - that's what other conferences have as visitors! Gary and Nina were already seen!
+++ TUE May 02, 7.30 pm
wow ... what a fulminant start of the realtime film festival with the screenings of the flash, cut-scenes, machinima, demo and visuals entries!
+++ TUE May 02, 10.30 am
best news from the location - the crew did a perfect job and everything is in the timeline - check out today's pictures on the pictures page
+++ TUE May 02, 8.30 am
rebooted... today the realtime film festival screenings will start 2 pm at the Metropol cinema - see you!
+++ TUE May 02, 2.30 am
closed for tonight ;-)
+++ TUE May 02, 0.30 am
the first pictures of the fmx technical construction and from the International
Festival of Animated Film here
+++ MON May 01, 11.30 am
new entry in our program: Mario Klingemann will present his project
Islands of Consciousness during the lunch break - that's realtime at it's best!
more information soon! ... more
+++ MON May 01, 8.05 am
the weather forecasts: more than 20° C on Wednesday - here we go!
+++ MON May 01, 1.30 am
the information pages are relaunched and live... good night!
+++ SUN April 30, 10.00 pm
Nina asks for her 35mm copy of FETCH ... wow ... some stress...
+++ SUN April 30, 12.00 pm
making all the information sheets for speakers, drivers, hostesses, press...
+++ SAT april 29, 5.47 p.m.
Gary needs a adapter for his notebook - and I ran throughout this
incredible city ... finding nothing ;-(
+++ SAT april 29, 2.00 p.m.
Since yesterday evening we have the winning free fmx-ticket action on
the website... and the community needed extactly half an hour to realize it ;-)
+++ SAT april 29, 9.07 a.m.
It's pretty cold in Stuttgart - 9° C ... that's about 48° F ... and you know:
we're talking about the day maximum
forecast is about 15° C for Monday - German springtime ;-)
you can have a look from our office webcam
+++ FRI april 28, 6.15 p.m.
the workshop of das-werk is cancelled - we are sorry about it!
but they want to join us again next year ;-)
+++ FRI april 28, 2.30 p.m.
the mozilla / firefox users called us, that they can't see the websites, because
the layers are not positioned - oh no! we only can ask you to take opera - thx
+++ FRI april 28, 12.35 p.m.
OK folks! we have an new entry in the program!
CATIA from dassault systems will be on the stage
FR May 05 at 6 p.m. and they will introduce us to VIRTOOLS!
You wanna know who CATIA is - check it out here
There are no news about the workshop of das werk... hold on!
I'm coming from a meeting with the "cube" manager
Ms. Ackermann from the Museum of Art in Stuttgart...
introducing her the Pixar - 20 years of animation exhibition
which I saw at the MoMa in NYC this January... I'd like to see it in Stuttgart and she was appreciated about that idea!
+++ fri april 28, 8.00 a.m
fascinating how the radio station SWR3 ignores the International Festival on Animated Film in Stuttgart ;-)
We invited them to join the fmx/flashconference... and I'm wondering if they'll come ... but... it's a long way to Stuttgart!
+++ thu april 27, 1.05 p.m.
how exciting!
only a few days and the fmx starts
next tuesday evening!
So we are finalizing our program...
and the workshops of das werk and from Greg Rewis are still unsure...
So let's hope, that we'll get the chance to see them!
Did you realize that the
International Festival on Animated Film starts today in Stuttgart?
check it out here
+++ wed april 26, 11.00 p.m.
I saw the preview of Pixar's "CARS" movie... this could be the begin of a long friendship with Carrera ;-)
+++ wed april 26, 10.00 a.m.
the winners of the flashconference attandance patches from
several blogs and webspaces are announced ... and the'll get their
tickets in the next days!
you are wondering about shockwards.de? don't panic! Franca is still working on that ...
+++ tue april 25, 08.00 a.m.
did I already mention the pixar's exhibition - 20 years of animation...
which I saw in January this year at the MoMa in NYC
+++ mon april 24
this is a black day for me, because I must realize that live can end... give me one day for reboot!