Six changes we anticipate in the digital marketing landscape.

It’s hard to imagine but there was once a time when human beings only existed in one dimension: physical reality. But as the online experience congeals with this “real” life that we’ve spent over 250,000 years getting used to, so does the way we interact socially with one another. The division between online and offline life continues to blur with every advance in mobile and digital technology.

Remember laughing at past movie characters as they would physically interact with “highly advanced computers”? They typed on virtual screens and shook hands with holograms while we smiled and shook our heads knowingly. Yet today, some of these far-fetched interactions are closer than you might think.

Val Head, Agency1903‘s Senior Designer/Developer and Co-Founder of Pittsburgh’s FlashPitt, recently attended Flashbelt. While she did pass on some of the best pike and walleye fishing this country has to offer, we’re told (by Val Head) that she did make optimal use of her time as an attendee and as a featured presenter. The title of Val’s session was: “Merging Motion: Working with Flash and After Effects.” She discussed misconceptions regarding Adobe After Effects, the strengths and weaknesses of both programs, and how the two can be used together in web-based motion graphics or animation projects. Val aimed her comments at Flash-oriented developers.

Before there was Uptown or the Hill District, there was Soho. The name was brought over by an English immigrant named James Tustin in the early 1800s. Along with the name, Tustin brought with him a cross section of English culture upon buying the majority of the land now known as Uptown. Tustin’s refusal to mesh with the Colonial American culture contributed greatly to the community’s ill approval of both he and his property. After his death, the area moved on as if he never existed. Uptown began its new destiny in 1875 when the steel industry moved in and the wealthy moved out.