As attending FITC in Toronto for the first time last year was a life changing experience, this year I bought my super early bird ticket, in hopes of another great event. And it was. In fact, in the past year I feel that I’ve advanced pretty far in terms of knowledge related to the industry (a lot of it thanks to Matt Wright from Rokkan, Adam Barnum, and Jason Arena as well as my other professors from RIT New Media), and I’ve had a lot of enlightenment from the websites of many of the speakers that were present at FITC; it made each and every presentation that I went to all the more valuable.

This year, the amount of RIT New Media students that attended the event has almost doubled, and so we definitely didn’t get as lost in the crowd - in fact, we were the crowd! (at many of the sponsored parties, at the least! ) It’s good to see more of the underclassmen there at the event, taking advantage of both the student pricing and the close distance that Toronto is to our school. I’m sure a majority of them enjoyed the event and were inspired by the speakers.

On Sketchnotes: In my last post, I had written about Mike Rohde’s inspirational sketchnotes from sxsw. Sketchnotes are hard. Whilst sitting at Jason ‘JTed’ Theodore’s creative presentation, How To B.S.(BrainStorm) Better, I attempted to take sketchnotes, but I found that often JTed was speaking too quickly for me to actually take notes neatly. I ended up re-sketchnoting the notes from his presentation, which ended with the result below:

Next time I’ll probably have a regular pad to jot down my notes, and rewrite/sketchnote them after the presentations. I also noticed that, at the more technical lectures, there were less to actually sketch out, hence the two liner at the end that simply was a url to Colin Moock’s lectures (the url’s actually moock.org, and not his full name colinmoock.org).

Some of the other notable Presentations I attended were:
Si Scott - Challenging Imagination
Mike Downey - Adobe Keynote
Erik Natzke - Beyond the Knowledge: TheArt of Playing
Mario Klingemann - The Pixel Whisperer
GMUNK - GMUNKICKDOWN 08
Ralph Hauwert - Flash 2D & 3D Effects
Scott Hansen - ISO50:Blending Analogue & Digtial
Ryan Honey & Orion Tait - How Buck Goes ABout Making Commercials & Stuff
David Eriksson - North Kingdom - An Inside View
Jarnes Eberhardt - 2D Barcodes for Mobile Devices
Brett Forsyth - Building Multi-Touch Interfaces with Flash
Grant Skinner - My Favourite Things

Unfortunately, I missed the last three presentations, but I had hoped to watch/listen to Group 94, The Ronin & Dstrukt, and Robert Hodgin. All of the presentations I was able to attend, though, were really informational and I enjoyed them a lot. Overall this year I think it was definitely better than last, I’m really looking forward to going to FITC and other conferences like that in the future!

thanks for the linkups!:
jted!
jonezy

So, I emailed Ben Fry for the processing links that he displayed at the reprocessing lecture @ FITC Toronto 2007, and he replied back to my email with lightning quick speed!

Personally, I was looking for flight404 and the music visualizations.. those are so NICE!

Here you go, new media krew~ enjoy!

people/projects:
steph thirion http://www.trsp.net/teaching/gamemod
james seo http://lossless.net
axel kilian http://www.designexplorer.net
michael chang http://users.design.ucla.edu/~mflux
karsten schmidt http://toxi.co.uk/blog/
florian jenett http://www.florianjenett.de
robert hodgin http://flight404.com
marius watz http://www.unlekker.net
casey reas http://reas.com

electronics:
wiring http://wiring.org.co/exhibition
arduino http://arduino.cc

keeping up with processing:
http://del.icio.us/tag/Processing.org/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/processing
http://youtube.com/group/processing
http://www.vimeo.com/tag:processing/
http://www.processingblogs.org/

oh yeah, and be sure to check out Ben’s Page @ http://www.BenFry.com/ as well as the processing homepage at http://processing.org/!

Got back from Toronto last night, FITC was really inspiring! I think this year was a good year to attend because of the newly released creative suite 3 by adobe, there were a lot of presentations that made use of the new creative suite, and I saw a lot of the features of flash cs3 and actionscript 3. The FITC ticket was definitely worth the money, and us new media kiddies had lots of fun attending the presentations and meeting the big people!

I think I’ll definitely go again next year!

Now that I’m back in Rochester, I’ve gotta get back into the working mindset. In Emerging Multi-Media, we’re currently doing a motion graphics package for Homework Hotline, a show shown on PBS all over New York. Check out http://flip.cias.rit.edu for the in progress work.

I’m relaunching this blog (previously at jefflindesign.com/designlife), partly because I want to start blogging my design stuff, and also because I deleted the previous blog from my webspace after becoming fed up with countless spam comments. I just found out about the Akismet plugin for wordpress and have enabled it. Hopefully this plugin and the changed address will help prevent much spam from getting posted.

I went blog template browsing this morning and couldn’t find anything better; Hemingway is still my favorite. I modified it a bit. I’ll probably change it up more when I have the time.

To my New Media Design Peeps - If you have a design blog that you’d like to get linked up with, let me know! You know where to find me… You can link to my blog using this address: http://labs.jefflindesign.com.

I’ve been working on my flash portfolio, and I’m hoping to have it done this weekend, so I can send it out. I’m also planning on designing some quick business cards and getting them printed at overnightprints. I requested a sample pack and received it within 2-3 days, the samples seemed to be of decent quality, and their prices seem fairly cheap. Hopefully I can have them designed and printed before FITC I’m looking forward to this trip, it’ll be a much needed, educational getaway from Rochester.