@FourStar, oh yes, James’ talk really was something really special. Not seen anything quite like that before. Very good indeed.

Nice write-up – I was there too and thoroughly enjoyed the variety of speakers and topics, although the afternoon session probably shaded it for me. Merlin was amazing and Tom was slick and passionate but James was the real find; articulate and engaging about a topic many might have dismissed as dry and boring at first glance.

As for the detractors, what would be the point of ‘how-to’ Photoshop demonstrations at a creativity conference? That was the point – leave here and discover how to do it for yourself!

Cheers

Excellent post. I was a first time dConstructor myself this year and thoroughly enjoyed pretty much all of the sessions on offer and left feeling motivated and impassioned to create some great things.

I agree whole heartedly with your opinion that this exactly what a conference should do, teaching the detailed techniques of how to achieve such things are a waste of a stage as the can easily be explained through tutorials and guides on the internet, imparting passion and excitement are things done less easily over the web.

I was interested to see some puttz on twitter yesterday slagging the conference off because it didn’t offer enough in the way of technical detail and photoshop demos.

They made a comment to the nature of “the best thing about the conference was the lunch…. which wasn’t provided.”

I’m glad to see someone appreciating the conference for what it was.

Thanks for writing it up.

Robert