Off Grid/On Grid: ARKit’s Guide to Sustainable Living

While briefly scanning my twitter feed I noticed a Tweet by Kate Kendal, who is a fairly great player in the Social media Scene in Melbourne. She advised me of a free event that ArkKit are having as part of the State of Design Festival at ACCA Forecourt.

ArkKit constructs a fullscale prefabricated house – the EcoStudio. The house will be approximately 50m2 and will have a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living space and an adaptable services hub dependant on its ultimate location. Throughout the Festival period the EcoStudio will host a number of events, installations and activities. Launching the program is the habitation phase where two people will live and work from the EcoStudio. Visit the occupants at the Studio or follow the blog to keep learn about their experience living on site. Other events are to include a house party, book launch, professional work shops, public seminars and artist workshops.

Come and check it out.

More details @ State of Design

HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die

Some time ago Tim Legge ran out of his office and threw the opportunity out there for people to give their two cents on the HTML5 and Flash sissy fight disagreement.

There were some great conversations around the topic. Essentially we came to the opinion that flash wont die. It may die in web, but flash’s capabilities in multimedia and learning solutions for the corporate space is very much alive and thriving.

To support the discussions we had Ben Webber today pointed my (and others) attention to an article, Luke Reimer a contributor on Smashing Magazine wrote, that is very much a run down on the topic. Essentially he points out that our opinion was quite inline with what his is.

If you are interested in the detail he gives to support this, please check out the post.

HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die