Where are you from?
We are living in an old farm-house in the middle of germany

Where did you grow up?
A small town, surrounded by a lot of german cows

What are your pastimes and interests?
A lot of sport, friends and work

What's your favorite saying or cliché?
It´s german. "komm-klar.de"

What's your favorite movie?
Matrix, Starwars, Alien II, soon final fantasy, I hope

What's your favorite cocktail?
VodkaRedBull (makes you drunken-fit :)

When did you first get involved with flash?
Around 1989. I asked "why you don´t use director for this?" :)

What is your view of the current use of flash?
I think there´s a lot to explore. Everytime macromedia implements new functions you see the use of half a year later...

Who has been your greatest inspiration?
My partners Tom and Marc, James (petalien), Peter (nrg.be), Michael Kronenberg, women, all the manga-stuff, MTV, George Lucas, James Cameron

Where do you see the future of flash?
Everywhere. Who wants to see boring html-crap having a DSL connection at home? (and who really wants to try to design a good website with html?) I think Flash will be used more and more in other fields than the pure online production.

What advice would you give to budding flashers?
Try to make something different. Everytime there´s a really innovative website half a year everything looks the same. And you could be the first...

What can FK01 attendees expect from you?
A big surprise, cause we´ll present our latest underground project. From the dimension of work it could be a production for the cinema, also it looks like beeing one :) We´ll present the work behind, previews of upcoming stuff and tricks about flash-games programming lateron.

Any closing words?
I think FK01 will get a big fun.
I hope I´ll meet Trinity while hangin around.

If you would like further information on speaking opportunities please contact: Mark Fennell(webmaster@flashkit.com). We have conferences planned in LA, Sydney, and Europe and Asia as well, so let us know your interest!