Linkdump time! If you find (or write) an interesting piece about Flashforward2006 Austin, post the link in the comments and we’ll add it to this list. Happy reading & watching & listening!

• Flashforward video Podcasts: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• Flickr: “flashforward“
• Flashmagazine: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Mike Downey audio interview, Lynda Weinman audio interview.
• Chris Orwig: photos, links and more…
• Aaron Simpson: festival highlights, post-session, The Flash Animation 10.
• Brendan Dawes: travel, pre-session, post-session, denouement.
• Lisa Larson: Keynote recap, Wednesday, Links, Streamingmedia.com article.
• Andy Hunt: lengthy, techy perspective.
• Aral Balkan: Days 1 & 2, Apollo@Flashforward, Flex Workshop slides, Supercharging Flash 8 slides.
• Niqui Merret: anticipation, keynote, last thoughts.
• Jason Fincanon: Day 2, Day 4, more…
• Grant Skinner: recap & session notes link, more on V3 components.
• Pamela Pfiffner: observations and reflections, Brendan Dawes.
• Chafic Kazoun: anticipation, session notes.
• Adobefolk: Mark Anders, Scott Fegette, Emmy Huang, John Nack
• Mario Klingemann: Recap.
• Ryan Stewart: ZDNet, FP9 penetration discussion
• Lee Brimelow: several blog posts…
• Robert Hoekman, Jr.: several blog posts…
• Excitement about Cris Ippolite’s session: MacDailyNews, MacNN, CNN.

UPDATE 28 September

• David Stiller: Day 1, Day 1.5, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4
• Festival Winner PR: GeeGuides, 15×15

Portrait of Brendan Dawes © Chris Orwig. Click through to see the complete set…

Not only was Brendan Dawes kind enough to join us as a speaker in Austin, and to choose our event to launch his amazing new book, but yesterday when another speaker had to cancel last-minute due to weather, Brendan stepped in and reprised his own session instead.

Not long after that we decided Lynda could use some company on stage for presenting awards at the Film Festival (the role we normally reserve for beauty queens) and, once again, Brendan agreed to help out.

Finally, some of the most beautiful pictures posted to Flickr in the past few days under the Flashforward tag happen to be portraits of Brendan Dawes, taken by our friend Chris Orwig.

Thanks for all your help, Brendan! And thanks Chris for sharing the amazing photos!

Flashforward2006 Austin begins this Monday, September 11! If you still aren’t sure which sessions to attend, we put together some ideas for you…

Remember that we don’t have tracks as such, and you don’t need to commit to your decisions in advance. But we do have a schedule-builder available for your convenience.

We also have the ability to highlight items on your schedule, much like a playlist from which you may pick and choose.

There are a few “Celebrity Playlists” — sessions chosen by our speakers — and we have now put together some additional playlists for you, organized loosely by topic. (But if a particular session doesn’t appear in any of these lists you should consider it a hidden gem!)

Each link takes you to the first day containing playlist items, but be sure to click through to subsequent days to see everything in the list.

Celebrity Playlists: Chris Georgenes, Grant Skinner, Aaron Simpson

Playlists by Topic:

Animation
Animators unite! From the basics of character design and drawing tools, to production for web and television.

Professional Flash: Workflow, RIAs, Accessibility
You’ve evolved beyond the one-man-band and now construct enterprise-caliber rich internet applications with a team of designers and developers. Here are some sessions that cover the issues you might encounter…

Art, Inspiration and Experimentation
Flash is the magic wand that unites your left and right brains, unleashing the programmer-artist within. Cutting-edge experimentation has always been what inspired and advanced the Flash community as a whole. If you want to see something new, or learn to make magic yourself, check these out…

Next-Gen: ActionScript 3, Flex 2, Flash 9, Apollo
If it ain’t alpha, it’s old news… this stuff is so cutting-edge, paramedics will be on-hand to stitch you up afterwards.

Pixel Pushing: Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Color, UI
Whether you’re new to Flash but immersed in Photoshop and Illustrator, or a Flash fan looking to improve your design fundamentals, learn about new tools and techniques here…

Video, Film and After Effects
Whether your work starts on tape and passes through After Effects on the way to Flash, or the other way around — check out Flash Video, Film and After Effects sessions here…

Pragmatic: Flash 8/ActionScript 2
Whether you’re learning Flash, teaching it, or need to finish the project that was due last week, consider solid topics like those below, which focus primarily on Flash 8 / ActionScript 2. Neither experimental nor niche, these are the skills you can use immediately…

Flash Lite: Smaller is Better
While some of us redesign our work for 1024×768, you’re planning for 240×320. While some of us swicth over to AS3, you’re excited to finally have most of AS2 to work with. Here are some sessions you might be interested in…

Last week we posted a podcast interview with Brendan Dawes and told you a little about the session he’ll be presenting at Flashforward2006 Austin. But this will be more than just a presentation — Brendan will be celebrating the launch of his brand-new book of the same title, Analog In, Digital Out.

Among his other activities at the conference, Brendan will be reporting on his Flashforward experience on the Amazon blog associated with the book.

He’ll also do a signing, and New Riders will be running a competition to win one of four exclusive signed prints featuring artwork from the book.

If you’re not excited about AIDO yet, check out Brendan’s “official site” for the book — fascinating snippets of found video.

You can also look at some Flickr photos Brendan posted, sent to him by the publisher so he could see how it turned out.

Join us in Austin and help Brendan celebrate this amazing new work!

For any of you who find the blog at all unwieldy for looking up past podcast episodes, we now have a dedicated page on which you can hear or download all our interviews so far. Happy listening!

Flashforward Podcast Archive…