IT seems these guys manage to hide away somewhere untill they release some exciting demo swf that wets everyones appetite, then all the attention scares them away.

You see these special creatures follow a diferent path, squeezing and hacking every bit of performance from the flash player. They migrate daily to a communal website for social interaction.

Here we have an excellent specimum of the Flashious3Dhacium in all its crowning glory. John from http://johnukmn.blogspot.com has posted an example of his efforts which have 3d lighting and a faux depth of field (click the swf) in his latest blog post HERE
If you do happen to catch a glance of this special creature please do not scare him as we need more of them in this world, and this particular one is making great advances.

Its really exciting to see new Engines come out in AS3 using the latest VM. The speed and framerate of this example is really promising. Well done John (hope the nature channel commentary isnt offending, Ive had too little caffine) ).