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Effects of Oil Spill from Adam Enatsky on Vimeo.

Wired is working with Adobe to bring the print magazine to life via an iPad application. What’s especially interesting about the app is that while Flash -Adobe’s blacklisted technology doesn’t get a plug, Adobe AIR does. AIR is apparently the technology behind the iPad application’s rich-text, imagery, animation and interactivity functionality.

Adora Svitak is a twelve-year-old author and teacher who has published three books so far: Flying Fingers, Dancing Fingers, and Yang in Disguise. She is a delightful visionary who has traveled the world spreading her joy for writing and literacy.

This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age. For more information please visit: maya.com/practices/research Really interested in the implications of a trillion-node world? Read Dr. Peter Lucas’s seminal white paper that not only predicted this sort of scaling and complexity but outlined some of the resilient patterns that we need to follow to get there from here. maya.com/portfolio/the-trillion-node-network

This is a short film by MAYA Design about architecture in its broadest sense. This film is a companion piece to our film about information. For more information visit: maya.com/the-feed/what-is-information-architecture

This is a short film by MAYA Design about information. Although most of us think we know what we mean when we say “information,” we sometimes confuse the medium with the message. This is a companion piece to our film about architecture. For more information visit: maya.com/the-feed/what-is-information-architecture

William Trubridge breaks the freediving world record without fins with a dive to 88m (288 feet) in 3:30 in Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas.

The website urban-abstract.com works as a part of the piece and creates an extra dimension for the clips shown on TV.

URBAN ABSTRACT – About the concept:

Urban Abstract is a journey across urban space that unfolds in forty, 5 second parts. The journey, in one, two and three dimensions, is a bit like abstract surfing in which the original destination is only reached after a number of seemingly random yet linked detours occur. Points, lines, planes and other abstract elements create a journey through an Urban Abstract. The space between things is as important as intended space, perhaps creating a fourth dimension. Meaningful shapes and purposes occur in this dimension’s reality as well. The concept of negative space has meaning here. Nature plays a part as well. To be able to understand and differentiate what is urban one has to understand what is nature. The style of the shorts is fluid and, though seemingly random, stream into a cohesive whole. Perhaps watching them in a different order would be more like seeing the same journey from another point of view. The sound world is also very important — movement in space is sensed even if watching the shorts with eyes closed. Sounds overlap, fade, come and go. This feeling is reached through mixing techniques such as vectors, hand drawn lines and painting. Urban Abstract was realized in Tokyo by a team of artists, designers and animators from Finland and Japan. Urban Abstract was created by Jopsu Ramu from Musuta Ltd, a concept, art & design -studio based in Tokyo and Helsinki.