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A look behind the scenes of Adobe Portfolio — at the product design, specs and styleguides

By Andrew Couldwell

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Pros And Cons Of Graphic Design €œSpec € Work

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A New Life Awaits in the Chinese Sea Colonies

First they take the South China Sea, then the galaxy…

China’s current terraforming activities and proposed designs for cities and vehicles provide an excellent way to expand their territory and power not just within its nearby waters, but also beyond Earth. Creating new land and living in ever more hostile environments, such as beneath the ocean and in orbit, allows it to continue to develop its industrial base and fully leapfrog the first world nations to become an off-world one.

Chinese reclamation work on Johnson South Reef (Image: Philippine armed forces)

Chinese reclamation work on Johnson South Reef [BBC]

We start our look in the present. At this piece by the BBC “China’s Island Factory“, which examines how China’s economic rise and development as a naval power is driving its need to acquire a legitimate hold in territory it had previously laid claim to, but not enforced. By deploying its freshly minted navy to contest existing claims by neighbours such as Vietnam and the Philippines. And by manufacturing islands:

This place is called Johnson South Reef. On my GPS it again shows no land, just a submerged reef.

But I’ve seen aerial photographs of this place taken by the Philippine navy. They show the massive land reclamation work China has been doing here since January.

Millions of tonnes of rock and sand have been dredged up from the sea floor and pumped into the reef to form new land.

Along the new coastline I can see construction crews building a sea wall. There are cement-pumping trucks, cranes, large steel pipes, and the flash of welding torches.

The appearance of these new islands has happened suddenly and is a dramatic new move in a longstanding territorial struggle in the South China Sea.

At the beginning of this year, the Chinese presence in the Spratly Islands consisted of a handful of outposts, a collection of concrete blockhouses perched atop coral atolls.

Now it is building substantial new islands on five different reefs.

On one of these new islands, perhaps Johnson South Reef, China seems to be preparing to build an air base with a concrete runway long enough for fighter jets to take off and land.

Plans published on the website of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation are thought to show the proposed design.

China’s island building is aimed at addressing a serious deficit.

Other countries that claim large chunks of the South China Sea – Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia – all control real islands.

But China came very late to this party and missed out on all the good real estate.

And they’re able to apply the adage that if you can’t be early adopter, be a mass adaptor. They certainly have the resources now; far, far beyond that of the challenging small nations and their forces maintaining a token, toe-hold presence. But they still come, like the Filipinos on Pagasa, for the dream of a new life.

“Back on the mainland everything is so expensive compared to here.” In a country where nearly a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line I can see her point.

Our host on Pagasa is Mary Joy. She came here two years ago to start a fishing business. It failed. So she took a job as the island’s administrator.

Mary Joy has big plans. The community hall needs to be finished. A proper harbour must be built. She even talks of a resort hotel on the pristine north beach. If only there were more money.

“The Chinese have so much money,” she says. “We have so little. But it is really important for us to stay here. If we don’t I think the Chinese will come in here.”

Wouldn’t it be so much better if the Chinese, and others, were coming in tourist boats instead? We’ll come to back this thought later on.

But the immediate issue isn’t tourism or economic colonisation; it is of course energy. And Vietnam is hedging against its future riches, investing in a submarine deterrent:

A master of guerrilla warfare, Vietnam has taken possession of two of the state-of-the-art submarines and will get a third in November under a $2.6 billion deal agreed with Moscow in 2009. A final three are scheduled to be delivered within two years.

While communist parties rule both Vietnam and China and annual trade has risen to $50 billion, Hanoi has long been wary of China, especially over Beijing’s claims to most of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea. Beijing’s placement of an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam earlier this year infuriated Hanoi but the coastguard vessels it dispatched to the platform were always chased off by larger Chinese boats.

The Vietnamese are likely to run so-called area denial operations off its coast and around its military bases in the Spratly island chain of the South China Sea once the submarines are fully operational, experts said.

That would complicate Chinese calculations over any military move against Vietnamese holdings in the Spratlys or in the event of an armed clash over disputed oil fields, even though China has a much larger navy, including a fleet of 70 submarines, they added.

However, as the BBC point out, China is interested in territory, not energy.

It is an oft-repeated statement that the coral atolls of the South China Sea sit atop potentially huge reserves of oil and gas. The struggle to control the Spratlys would certainly make more sense if it were true.

But a recent study by the US government suggests the main oil and gas reserves under the South China Sea do not lie anywhere near the Spratly Islands.

For China the struggle over the South China Sea is less about resources, though, than it is about sovereignty and strategic space. Nor is this just a quarrel with the Philippines and other countries bordering the sea.

Instead it is about China’s real strategic rival – the United States. The US government does not acknowledge China’s claim, and the US Pacific fleet continues to sail regularly through the South China Sea. But the Chinese navy is beginning to grow more assertive.

So why risk wars with Vietnam and the Philippines and so on, if there’s the option of treaties and partnership and mutual riches and forming a bloc acting against the actions of the fading empire of Uncle Sam?!

Let’s look at some maps:

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration

It sure looks like their aims could be complementary.

What if instead of life aboard rusting ships and islands that nearly wash out every night, and the hope of future wealth for their countrymen, the Chinese state just sat down and offered the ambitious citizens and their officials money up front and a chance to build and live in something like this:

After all, how long is a freshly dredged up island going to last in a turbulent century of heavy weather and water wars and melting ice caps? That is no way to stay true to a Long Now legacy of Hundred Year Plans. Whereas a floating city is far more forward thinking and offers new engineering challenges to broaden a country’s, or coalition of countries’, competitive edge:

AT Design Office, who has offices in England and China, was commissioned by Chinese construction firm CCCC-FHDI to design a floating island with an area of four square miles – utilising the same technologies that CCCC-FHDI is using to build a 31-mile bridge between the cities of Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai.

Entitled Floating City, the team’s proposal involves a series of prefabricated hexagonal modules that tesselate to create all the infrastructure needed for a city on water – from a transport network of yachts and submarines, to a floating hotel and entertainment complex.

Recreational green spaces would be located both above and below the water’s surface, while farms, hatcheries and rubbish collection facilities would allow the community to produce its own food and sustainably dispose of waste.

Declare some special economic zones at the edge of the oil & gas deposits. Help the region win back the diaspora that is literally slaving away in the Middle East, building megastructures for the megarich, when instead they could be building a “bright green future” for themselves on the back of the dark legacy of the fossilized past. All in return for forgoing any future contesting of disputed islands. Everything they want is at the edges. There’s plenty of free space in the middle for negotiation and future plans.

‘floating responsive architecture’ vertical farms

And sure these floating cities are already super sustainable and self-contained and all, but wouldn’t a ring of massive floating vertical farms that also just happen to be strategically placed to break up typhoons like this mad scientist planned for Tornado Alley really just complete the place?! (And further feather the cap of a rising regional power bloc.)

[A]rchitects from a Barcelona-based design firm called JAPA have designed a system of looping towers that would float in Singapore’s harbours and grow crops throughout the year. Called FRA, which is short for ‘floating responsive architecture’, the design was based on the floating fish farms that have been used by Singapore locals since the 1930s.

The odd shape of the vertical farms, which look like skinny “Ls” that face opposite directions and meet in the middle, was designed to capture the maximum amount of sunlight for the plants while saving space.

Inside the towers, a large number of sensors would monitor the crops and send real-time data on their status to various networks in charge of looking after them. This data would also keep track on how much food people are buying around the city, so the food produced by the farms could be adjusted accordingly. “The system will aim for zero food waste,” Ponce said.

Or surplus. They could after all be tied into the global marketplace. Servicing passing cruise ships full of long lived Baby Boomers, afraid of the sky, unintentionally spending the bulk of their elongated life on vacation, as they head out for yet another world tour; at sea where it’s safer. Filling containers to be drone dropped onto scattered populations of economic and climate refugees, as they petition the First and Last State on Earth for guest citizenship and a chance to begin again.

“supercavitating” submarine

But why stop the brave new undersea world there, when there are supersonic submarines to add to the picture. Overtly delivering payloads of green produce and black energy within and without the Woken Dragon. Covertly docking at the underwater terminals of the floating cities and unloading classified cargo and materials for the next stage in the Great Plan. Going right under the noses of the existing networks of pirates harassing vessels in key areas like the Strait of Malacca, and off the coast of Africa.

This technology, which could just as easily be applied to weaponized torpedoes as military or civilian submarines, could theoretically get from Shanghai to San Francisco — about 6,000 miles — in just 100 minutes. If all this doesn’t sound crazy enough, get this: This new advance by the Chinese is based on supercavitation, which was originally developed by the Soviets in the ’60s, during the Cold War.

future site of Eko Atlantic

Then the infrastructure is in place to really get started. In short: Elysium with Chinese and African characteristics.

Supersonic submarines are preferable, instead of far easier to shoot down flying drones, transporting the hyper rich and powerful from one bright green climate enclave to another. From the South China Sea to the coast of Africa, where they oversee the mining and transportation of vital resources.

Just off Lagos, Nigeria’s coast, an artificial island is emerging from the sea. A foundation, built of sand dredged from the ocean floor, stretches over ten kilometres. Promotional videos depict what is to come: a city of soaring buildings, housing for 250,000 people, and a central boulevard to match Paris’ Champs-Élysées and New York’s Fifth Avenue. Privately constructed, it will also be privately administered and supplied with electricity, water, mass transit, sewage and security. It is the “future Hong Kong of Africa,” anticipates Nigeria’s World Bank director.

Welcome to Eko Atlantic, a city whose “whole purpose”, its developers say, is to “arrest the ocean’s encroachment.” Like many low-lying coastal African countries, Nigeria has been hit hard by a rising sea-level, which has regularly washed away thousands of peoples’ homes. To defend against the coastal erosion and flooding, the city is being surrounded by the “Great Wall of Lagos”, a sea defence barrier made of 100,000 five-ton concrete blocks. Eko Atlantic will be a “sustainable city, clean and energy efficient with minimal carbon emissions,” offer jobs, prosperity and new land for Nigerians, and serve as a bulwark in the fight against the impacts of climate change.

Eko Atlantic is where you can begin to see a possible future – a vision of privatized green enclaves for the ultra rich ringed by slums lacking water or electricity, in which a surplus population scramble for depleting resources and shelter to fend off the coming floods and storms. Protected by guards, guns, and an insurmountable gully – real estate prices – the rich will shield themselves from the rising tides of poverty and a sea that is literally rising. A world in which the rich and powerful exploit the global ecological crisis to widen and entrench already extreme inequalities and seal themselves off from its impacts – this is climate apartheid.

Prepare for the elite, like never before, to use climate change to transform neighbourhoods, cities, even entire nations into heavily fortified islands. Already, around the world, from Afghanistan to Arizona, China to Cairo, and in mushrooming mega-cities much like Lagos, those able are moving to areas where they can live better and often more greenly – with better transport and renewable technologies, green buildings and ecological services. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the super-rich – ferried above the congested city by a fleet of hundreds of helicopters – have disembedded themselves from urban life, attempting to escape from a common fate.

Sea Dragon

And how better to escape the common fate than at eleven point two kilometres a second in another piece of resurrected Cold War tech:

The Sea Dragon was a 1962 design study for a fully reusable two-stage sea-launched rocket. The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet, one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean. Although there was some interest at both NASA and Todd Shipyards, nothing ever came of the design as NASA’s Future Projects Branch was shut down in the mid-60s. At 150 m long and 23 m in diameter, Sea Dragon would have been the largest rocket ever built.

Truax’s basic idea was to produce a low-cost heavy launcher, a concept now called “big dumb booster“. To lower the cost of operation, the rocket itself was launched from the ocean, requiring little in the way of support systems. A large ballast tank system attached to the bottom of the first-stage engine bell was used to “hoist” the rocket vertical for launch. In this orientation the cargo at the top of the second stage was just above the waterline, making it easy to access.

To lower the cost of the rocket itself, he intended it to be built of inexpensive materials, specifically 8 mm steel sheeting. The rocket would be built at a sea-side shipbuilder and towed to sea for launch.

Just the thing to build from barges anchored off the currently disputed and freshly created islands in the center of the South China Sea, using the now vast available energy and resources coming in from around the world.

Ferrying fresh produce from vertical farms to power the eager taikonauts in low earth orbit, building themselves into the next stage in China’s off-world plan – crewing zero-gravity factories deploying satellites and spacecraft, dropping advanced goods back to Earth, capturing passing asteroids and putting some of them in a safe orbit around the Moon ready for its transformation into a way station to not just the solar system but the whole galaxy.

Meanwhile tackling the next necessary mega-engineering challenge on Earth, a space elevator to extend the reach of the region figuratively and literally into the heavens.

Building first on and then increasingly further below the sea at increasing pressures to graduate the industrial base to new challenges.

Letting people adapt body and spirit to the challenges of living under the water and above the sky. Incorporating the technological into the physical. Becoming the cyborgs that Kline and Clynes intended.

Giving people like Mary Joy of the Philippines the resorts to operate they dreamed of.

Providing new forms of entertainment and escape and wonders to those lucky few passing through on their last wordly tour.

Transforming a region currently on the edge of conflict into a twenty-first century economic powerhouse, forging a robust path forwards and upwards. Shifting currently polluting industrial centres into orbit and leaving behind a world ripped open that can begin to heal.

A bright new future awaits, for some.

A New Life Awaits in the Chinese Sea Colonies was originally published on Cosmic Anthropology 101

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The Ent-er-net of the Wild Things

Unlike traditional electronics, which are made of silicon wafers mounted on boards etched with circuitry, a new generation of printable (and sometimes bendable) electronics are made in the same way as a newspaper—by depositing an ink-like substance on a thin film (hence the name) made of a type of plastic commonly used for soft drink bottles. The result is a sheet of electronics that can be over a kilometer long, is cheap and flexible, and can be embedded into everything from clothes to food packaging. Thinfilm’s electronic tags cost between 2 and 5 cents each when bought in bulk, says Sutija. That’s anywhere from a sixth to a tenth of the cost of a traditional microcontroller (a low-power computer chip). Some of these, such as electronics on packaging, communicate their information visually, for example by changing color or using a small display screen. Others, which need to connect to machines, use near-field-communication (NFC), a radio standard that allows data transfer. Using NFC, your bag of lettuce could signal to your smart fridge that it’s past its best. The uses for these simple, single-purpose electronics are endless.

The fake tree stands on a mound in the forest, fresh thin electronic leaves budding for the new season, ready to drift on the winds and tag the wild, hooking feather and fur with fractal burs. Sync with monitor bushes that mark the entrances to ancient animal trails. Logging stones by watering holes and river crossings. Algorithmically generating bridges between habitat zones as predator:prey ratios hit metrics computed daily against a thousand year restoration plan. Suburb by fallen suburb the guardian trees march forward, periodically offering up a branch to be carried onwards by eaglesque drones, establishing a new ward in the debris of industrial civilization. Beaming progress reports every decade to the generation ships headed to the Sirius system. Reminding them to do better this time.

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With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time - NYTimes.com:

“It just clicked,” said Susan Borden, Tom Borden’s 24-year-old daughter. “One day we came in and they had started milking themselves.”

Sure enough, on a recent Friday, the Bordens stood watch as cows lined up in front of the closet-size devices; each quietly allowed the machine to wash and scan its underbelly with lasers before attaching mechanical milk cups.

The cows ate the whole time, then moved along when the machine was finished. Nearby, another new device, a Roomba-style robot, pushed feed toward cows who lounged in a pen or lay on straw mats.

“We’re the most disruptive thing in here,” Mr. Borden said.

How do you fund deextinction and the rewilding of ecosystems forward to their next-natural state? What if you can make it pay for itself?

What if you can farm the rewilding with robots???

Why choose between domestication and the wild, that is so twentieth century binary thinking man. Embrace the xor!

Ride that paleo diet wave, and that suburban quest for authenticity via cable tv gurus: sell Auroch milk for $20 a litre in Williamsburg and to the greater citizens of Portlandia!

The first Boskarin cattle have now been released in the Velebit mountains. Part of the Taurus program to resurrect Europe’s only recently extinct ancient cattle:

The aurochs stands at the very roots of the whole idea of our continent but was sadly driven to its extinction by man. Luckily, it can also be brought back by man. In 2008, the Taurus Foundation decided to give the re-breeding of the aurochs a serious try. It has since grown into a joint effort together with Rewilding Europe and the Dutch organization ARK Nature. The end result will look like an aurochs, live like an aurochs, behave, eat, mate, defecate and eventually die like an aurochs. For the time being, this animal will be called the Tauros, the Greek word for the bull.

It’s 2017, and Oprah is saying: forget Quinoa, forget the ancient grains and antioxidant berries from the Amazon, try the milk of recently resurrected pre-domesticated cattle. The real, true superfoods harness the power of the palaeolithic, that Ice Age hardiness imbued unto you!

"Rumour has it this is what Cleopatra really bathed in,” the signs on the spas say.

Flown in by drones direct from the biomemetic milking stations built by anthropology majoring makers trained in augmented reality set design and custom blinds.

Untouched by a single human hand. Unseen by a single human eye. Reveal in the Authenticity consumers! Drink it in.

For an extra $99.99 you can have it tweaked with custom gut biota to cure all your ails.

And for 9,000 Euro you can have your own personal herd, visible to all your “friends” on Facebook via our special Farmville plugin.

It’s 2022 and the herds are now big enough to offer safaris for corporate retreats, buck’s nights and any other manner of escape. 

Armed only flint knives chipped with the very finest rocks. Wearing only hare-skin loincloths. Juiced up with Neanderthal DNA temporarily spliced in by harmless virii. They hunt their food for the year on foot and gather tales enough to entertain the crowds at their neighbourhood barbecues. Watched over by fleets of robot medics, ready to resurrect them or repair any injury.

We get a restored ecosystem, a better gardened planet, and they get… fed body, soul and hyperego.

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A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!

Take a flight to Titan. Take a flight on Titan. Stay forever and live as an Angel.

Lerman and two classmates factored in the density of air at the surface of Titan, gravity, and the ratio of the path of the air above the wing to that below the wing. The students calculated that a person would need to run at a speed of 36 feet per second (11 meters per second) if they wanted to take flight wearing a normal-sized wingsuit with an area of about 15 square feet (1.4 square meters).

That running speed is quite daunting considering that Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, the fastest man on Earth, achieves speeds only slightly higher (just over 40 feet per second, or 12 m/s).

To lift off by running at a more manageable speed of about 20 feet per second (6 m/s), a person would need to wear a more unwieldy wingsuit with a surface area more than three times larger than the normal size, the students said.

Their paper was published in the University of Leicester's Journal of Physics Special Topics, which features short articles written by students to help get them acquainted with the peer-review process.

Many of the papers test bizarre or pop culture-inspired scenarios, such as an article published last year that examined what traveling through hyperspace would really look like.

For extra credit, update the terrestrial math on the required morphology here for the posthuman near future life on the Saturnian retreat.

A functional wing is, sadly, out of the question. Humans lack the shoulder joint and massive muscles that millions of years of evolution gave modern birds. Wing loading is another killer requirement. Modern birds need at least a square centimetre of wing area for every 4 grams of body mass, so an 80-kilogram human would need two square metres of wing.

But an arm might be converted to a decorative wing. Poore suggests modelling it on the wing of Archaeopteryx, the earliest bird, which had a shoulder much closer to humans than the shoulders of better-flying modern birds.

First, fuse the outer set of wrist bones and the hand bones to create a bird-like carpometacarpus, the third bone in a chicken wing. The thumb remains free, like the alula that helps guide bird flight, but other fingers would be fused together.

Next, rearrange the muscle and skin to allow articulation of the new bone arrangement.

Things get tricky when it comes to feathering the wings. Hair grows in different skin layers to feathers and the two consist of different types of keratin. No one knows how to convert one to the other.

Yet.

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MY GOAL STATEMENT, AOI & DESIGN SPECIFICATION

GOAL STATEMENT: 

Some children in Jakarta don't have the privilege to watch movies because they don't have enough money to watch movies. These children that I have just mentioned, are mostly orphans. Orphans are children that have been abandoned, and there are a lot in Jakarta. Orphanages have limited funding and resources, thus orphans cannot watch movies. It is important for them to watch certain movies, because certain movies contain great orphans should hear morals that I believe. So my goal is to bring the orphans to watch an Indonesian family movie with good morals. The movie that I will be showing will be an Indonesian movie. The reason why the movie is in Indonesian is because it gives a sense of nationalism (All Indonesians should be proud that our country can produce movies with great and inspirational morals). Another reason why the movie should be in Indonesian is because, if the movie is in English, I am pretty sure that the kids are not going to have any idea what the character is saying and what the moral was; which is the main point of doing this project.  I intend to get donations from students of Binus International School Simprug and other people from my environment. I also intend to make a garage sale to get funds for my personal project. With this personal project, I hope that orphan children can understand certain topics such as the following:

To be grateful for their present, learn from their past and look forward to their future.

To always be nice.

To be respectful to one another.

I believe that i should do this project because, i believe that all children should get the privilege to watch movies as it is a fun way to learn morals & other things that are important for them to learn and to have the privilege of having fun.

 AOI  

The AOI that I linked to my personal project is, “Community and Service”. According to the IB website (www.ibo.org);

” Community and service starts in the classroom and extends beyond it, requiring students to take an active part in the communities in which they live.”

Some questions that we will have to think about in this AOI are the following,

How do we live in relation to others?

How can I contribute to the community?

How can I help others?

I believe that my personal project (visitation to orphanages and give them the privilege of watching a movie with good morals) can answer those three questions above. My project is a way of relating to others because, all kids, be it elementary kids to high school kids, love watching movies. In addition to that, my project contributes good and crucial morals to people who cant afford or do not have the privilege to watch movies.

The reason why i chose this AOI is because, I believe that community and service is a way to share your knowledge to people aside from ourselves, be it your classmates or the less fortunate. My personal project is a way to help people learn morals in a different way.

THE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS:

My final project (the design of the visitation of the orphanage that will give them a movie night) should include a kid appropriate movie, the movie should have subtitles, the movies resolution must be good (quality of the picture), some food or snacks and a game to test their knowledge of the movie. There should be a movie because, it is a movie night and having a movie for them is an easy way to learn good morals in an efficient way. In addition to that, their should also be subtitles because the orphans might not catch the words the character might be saying so if that happens, they wouldn't be clueless because they can read what they said with the subtitles. The picture quality of my movie should also be very high because if the picture resolution of the movie isn't high, then the movie will seam stretched and pix-elated. If this happens, the movie isn't going to be so good, aesthetically because a stretched movie looks really bad. If the movie isn't aesthetically good, I'm afraid that the orphans will loose interest and not pay attention to the moral that is trying to be conveyed.  There should also be food because the children might get hungry and would get distracted from the movie by their hunger, but there is a disadvantage because the orphans might see the food before its their actual time to eat which causes them to want to eat their food before the movie which would mean that they wouldn't concentrate on the movie either. Lastly, there has to be a game to test their knowledge of the movie. This should be included because; the main point of this personal project is to have the orphans learn the morals. Having a game about the movie is the perfect way to test if the moral is in their heads.