My current company, in it’s infinite wisdom, is sending about 90% of the creative department to Flash Forward in San Francisco.  Flash Forward is a design, usability, accesibilty, developing (etc etc…) conference that focuses mainly on the use of Adobe Flash.  I’m pretty excited about going.  I’ve always heard about it, and that it’s a lot of fun, but have never had the pleasure of attending.  Before I started this job, I was familiar enough with flash, and used it on occassion, but not to the extent that my new position forces me to, and I’m having a blast learning all kinds of new things.  I’m pretty stoked to go to all the lectures and workshops that I can fit in.  I’ll be bringing a camera, and my laptop, so don’t be surprised if some blogging happens while I’m out there (barring that the hotel/conference area has free wifi).  If you’re going as well, hit me up, I might be able to swing by whereever you’ll be and say hi.  Also, I’ll have stickers to give out.  ONWARD!

(p.s. Scott McCloud is going to be there talking about comics…I’m pretty much nerding out about that).

So.

I’ve been messing around with a new project from Three Rings called, Whirled.

Essentially, Whirled is an open, community driven, flash world. It’s made up of games, rooms, furniture, and various other things, created, uploaded, and sold by users.

It’s a nifty little project. I was lucky enough to get into alpha testing, but it is now open to the public for beta testing.

Up until now I’ve only been testing it’s capabilities via playing the games, interacting with people, and using other users’ creations. That will all change once my new computer arrives (which should be tomorrow) and I can once again work from my home studio. If you do end up joining, stay tuned to see seanoconnor.info themed creations peppering the “whirled”.

stay tuned.