We have another celebrity schedule you can refer to while building your own. This one is from Aaron Simpson, of Cold Hard Flash and JibJab fame.

Check it out!

Aaron will be presenting the session “Flash Animation: From One Computer to a Million Screens” at Flashforward2006 Austin.

Related links:

Celebrity Schedule: Chris Georgenes
Celebrity Schedule: Grant Skinner

A nice long interview with Lynda Weinman has been published at FlashCulture.com. Lynda discusses her long and storied career to date, what’s happening in the Flash industry, how Flashforward has changed and grown in the past six years, and many other topics. Enjoy!

Lynda Weinman will also be presenting a keynote of her own for the first time at Flashforward2006 Austin, so be sure to join us!

AUSTIN FESTIVAL FINALISTS

The sixty finalists for the Flashforward2006 Austin Film Festival have been announced. Take a look at the best Flash on the web, and be sure to congratulate the finalists!

PEOPLE’S CHOICE VOTING NOW OPEN

Cast your vote for the best overall site from among the sixty finalists, and it could win the People’s Choice Award.

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Heartfelt thanks to our brave judges for sifting through twice the usual number of nominations this time, and arriving at what looks to be an amazing and diverse body of work.

We will be contacting the finalists in person this week with more information. But if you see your work listed, feel free to get in touch, particularly if you did not nominate it yourself.

Good luck on the People’s Choice vote!

Photo credit: “Lunch” by Chris Fleming.

Greetings Early Birds!

Were you dismayed to discover that the best worms were slurped up last month by the Super Early Birds? Caught you off guard, didn’t it? For all those years, Early Birds had it so easy, and now here come the Super Early Birds. Madness.

More to the point: are you aware that this is the final week of discounted prices for Flashforward2006 Austin?

That means if you don’t register by Friday, July 28 you will be subject to Standard Bird or possibly even At-the-Door Bird rates. (Have you seen an at-the-door bird recently? Such dull plumage.)

We know you. You’re not Standard. You’re Early. Now go get that worm!

A couple weeks ago we told you about our new schedule selection feature, which allows you to earmark the sessions you want to attend at Flashforward2006 Austin for later reference. It looks like hundreds of you have tried it out so far, which is great!

We have been asking some of our speakers which sessions they are excited about, and today we’ll share the recommendations of Chris Georgenes and Grant Skinner.

Click on either of their names or pictures above and you’ll be taken to the schedule selection tool; your own choices will appear as before, while Chris’ or Grant’s will be highlighted in black so you can compare.

If you were having trouble deciding what to do during a particular time slot, this might help. But the main purpose of course is for the speakers to get offended with each other for not choosing their sessions. (This will be fun!)

We’ll post more recommendations in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!