Seb Lee-Delisle

I landed in Amsterdam this morning at 8.15am feeling a little achey and strange after running the Brighton half marathon yesterday!

I’m just going over my presentation in my room, and I’ve just realised I haven’t actually uploaded the working files you’ll need to work along with me!

But don’t worry you can download them here!

It’s a Flex workspace so just point your FlexBuilder 3 at it and you’ll get all the example files.

See you at 4pm!

Download the source files.

Just a quick note to say I’ll be speaking at FlashCamp in London, and I hear that they’ve given away 300 tickets already so it should be a really good one!

I’ll be speaking about my work with Papervision3D at Plug-in Media, and also demoing some of the more fun aspects such as the big interactive installations, and augmented reality.

And they have an impressive line-up, with no less than 3 Adobe evangelists; Mike Chambers, Lee Brimelow and Serge Jespers.

Also they seem to have enticed out the cream of the London digital media scene, James Whittaker(RefreshingApps), Richard Dean (Lightmaker) and Michael Chase, AKQA.

Not only that but it takes place on 26th February. Which just so happens to be my birthday! And what better way to spend it than with you

Tickets are pretty much sold out, so If you want to come, I’d get in very, very fast…

The final line-up has been announced for FITC Amsterdam, and although it’s quite a small conference, the line-up is looking very good! I’ve been sent the schedule and it’s actually really hard to pick with session to go to!

I’m actually flying out on the evening of the 22nd of February so I’ll miss all the workshops. But that can’t be helped – I’m running the Brighton half marathon that day!

If you want a cheeky 10% discount, just use the code pluginmedia.

Finally you don’t have to make the trek across the pond to experience that rather wonderful British delight, Flash on the Beach.

And this time you don’t have to put up with the Brighton weather, unforgiving exchange rates, or jet lag. The american reversioning of this conference is doing it in style. In Miami beach!

The usual flash geniuses will be in attendance, including Andre Michelle, Mario Klingemann, Grant Skinner, Brendan Dawes, Craig Swann, Robert Hodgin, and also fellow Papervision team members Carlos Ulloa and Ralph Hauwert. Amongst others!

Flash on the Beach is the only conference I know of that has completely sold out some time before the event. So I would get your tickets as soon as you can. And they’re on super early bird prices right now – $299!

I’ll be there too, helping you with my beginners’ Papervision session. I’m actually getting married 2 weeks before! I guess it’ll be a honeymoon in Miami then…

Hehehe sorry about the z in reprezent. I couldn’t help it. You can take the kid out of the streetz but you can’t take the streetz out of the kid. Or something. But in my case we’re talking about the “streetz” of Lower Morden, so it doesn’t really count.

Ahem.

Anyway, I had a great time yesterday at the head conference, Yahoo’s Steve Webster, Papervision founder Carlos Ulloa and myself had a nice little chat with Aral.

Carlos is listening, but Steve’s losing interest. Unsurprisingly. http://flickr.com/photos/adactio

Answering such questions as “What’s the point of Flash”, “What can you do with Flash?” and “What is this Flash thing anyway?”. Explaining the reasons for Flash’s existence actually made me realise how out of touch I am with the rest of the web world at large. All of the projects we produce at Plug-in are so Flashy I never have to think about my options – we simply couldn’t do what we do with any other technology. But that does seem to give me a somewhat narrow perspective. I’ll definitely try to keep more up to date with new developments in non-Flash in the future.

But – it was great to see the Magic Circle headquarters – it’s an amazing building, and some great sessions.

I’ll also be giving my online presentation tomorrow afternoon at 3pm UTC in room 3, it should be really fun working with this format. It’ll be quite a short session, but hopefully plenty of time for questions and discussion.

So join me, if you want to get started in Papervision3D or if you’d like to see our current work in Flash.

… and you should get the Flash equivalent of Hamlet.

Well that’s the theory at least. However we only had seven coders and seven laptops, so we ended up with seven different types of crap.

At tonight’s FlashBrighton session we had a Flash Pass-the-Parcel, where we all got 5 minutes on each computer before shuffling along onto the next computer.

It’s quite an alarming experience, to be confronted with a timeline of code, you have no idea what the person before you was attempting, whether it’s working and how to improve it. But it was also bloody good fun, and nice for once having no criteria to work towards.

Due to the nature of Flash the work tended to be quite generative-art-like, and some of it really was dreadful. But somehow we managed to craft this little nugget out of the chaos.

And Aral crashed as well to talk to us about his Head conference :

And here’s the source code if you’re interested, including all the crap we left in It should just work on the timeline if you paste it in.
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I was always interested in magic when I was a kid. And last year I started rediscovering my card tricks; imagine my disappointment when it turned out I’m actually quite crap at it!?

But that doesn’t stem my childish excitement at the fact that I’m going to be at the Magic Circle’s headquarters on Friday!

As part of the Head Conference’s London hub, I’ll be in conversation with Carlos Ulloa and Steve Webster, talking about Papervision3D, the future of Flash, and perhaps the double lift.

I’d better get practising!

And there’ll be coffee, tea and later on cocktails!

And then on Sunday, shortly after my 10K run for Cancer Research UK (Please sponsor me if you haven’t already!) I’ll be presenting in my virtual conference room, my Papervision session, this time with some sneak peaks from Plug-in‘s latest top secret 3D project!

It’s quite scary thinking about doing a virtual presentation like this, but actually, now I’ve seen the technology, and how easy it’ll be to interact with the audience, I’m really looking forward to it. See you there!

I just realised that I kinda left this thread hanging – the truth is I’m bored with this fight! (And the discrepancies with european prices too).

I tried but failed to figure out whether their “free gift” for speakers would be something I may actually want (thus making up for the flights), but apparently that would ruin the surprise! More likely they haven’t worked out what it’ll be yet.

But I’m unwilling to take the free gift gamble and politely declined. Sadly, I will not be speaking at MAX this time.

And even more controversially, it seems that Adobe are in fact paying for at least one speaker’s flights for MAX this year, despite what they insisted all along.

As Ted said, there are indeed a lot of good people at Adobe. But unfortunately, they’re not the ones making these false economies. So to whoever you are – covering speaker expenses will make MAX better. And then (for once) I would LOVE to be positive about it.

And it is with a mixture of sadness, exhaustion, and joy to have been host to such a great many Flash friends from all over the world.

The conference was pretty damn amazing, and it was incredible to catch up with my great friends Mario, Ralph, Keith, Rob, Jeremy, Carlos, Chris and the many, MANY others! My session seemed to be very well-received, although I was actually quite nervous. The room was packed and they were stopping people coming in, so I guess I felt a bit more pressure than normal. And of course there was the 20 second code challenge, which didn’t help

Peter Elst videoed the whole thing on his mobile phone! And it’s remarkably good quality. So here it is if you’re interested! Download the source files.

Seb Lee-Delisle – Papervision3D Simplified from Peter Elst on Vimeo.

There was one disappointing disagreement, but I’ll save that for a full blog post later (and no, not with Jonathan Harris – I actually missed his session so have no idea what the controversy was all about).

In the meantime, I’m going to Gozo for a week’s holiday with Jenny. So I’m going to be a bit quiet and I’ll see you next week!

Just as the Flash literati are descending on Brighton it turns out that John Davey (Mr Flash on the Beach) has bigger plans… As if it’s not enough to set up a massive conference here in Brighton (an unbelievable 1050 tickets sold this year), he’s crossing the Atlantic to another famous beach, with hopefully better weather!

Flash on the Beach is an amazing conference. And that’s not just because it’s in my home town. John is so hospitable and generous (yes take notes Adobe MAX ). I’m really pleased he’s taking it over to our friends in the USA. I for one will be there. Tickets go on sale in November.