Emilie has put up some pictures she took during Flashtival on the London MMUG web site and finally, it appears that we have proof that Peter Hall actually *is* a computer.

Peter Hall with AC plugged in. That sort of brain power must require some serious juice!

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Note: At the request of Harold, I have temporarily removed this post.

Harold has assured me that the Flash Europe organizers will be making a public announcement next week, after they have personally talked to all the speakers and attendees currently registered for the event and I, for one, am willing to support them in their efforts. Best of luck, guys, and I look forward to your announcement.

Wow, what a day! (Or what a wonderful couple of days!)

Emilie and I have been in Holland since Saturday and we've been having the greatest time. Everyone on the Flashtival team has been so friendly and it was wonderful meeting such interesting (and might I add, multitalented) people! Special thanks to Elmer for inviting me and to Lizemijn and Koen for all their support. It was also great to see Peter (Elst) and Owen again and to meet Ola and Johanna (and their delightful little baby!) Now I just have to practice my Dutch names!

I really enjoyed Ola and Peter's sessions. It's always inspiring to see the range of uses Flash has (Ola's animations were truly a work of art and I am quite sure we will be hearing more of Peter's framework in the coming days.) I only wish I knew Dutch and could have attended some of the other sessions also but alas there were only so many hours in the day.

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Peter's showing us his document-based Flash system (DDF) -- using a single HTML file that can either render as HTML or as Flash in the browser (yes, it's as cool as it sounds and I am sure that we will see some real community development around this once he's released the source. The thought going on in my head is, how hard would it be to wire this up so it parses Flex? (Ok, pretty hard, I'm sure -- and client-side Flex parsing proof-of-concepts have already been created -- the real advantage of Flex, of course is the server-side rendering and caching.)

The crux of Peter's new framework revolves around using a central document manager in Flash to map tags in the HTML (using XHTML) to text fields and movie clips in Flash.

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I'm sitting in Ola Bergner's session at Flashtival and watching some amazing animation being deconstructed. Ola's stuff is amazing. He uses shape tweens almost entirely to great effect.

Here are some pictures:

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