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Create beautiful kaleidoscopic images with an iPad app that reinvents the classic toy

Arguably one of the most entertaining iPad apps we’ve come across, the Annamika kaleidoscope provides optic stimulation for inspiration, to cure boredom or as the ultimate stoner pastime. Choose any of ten preset images or one from your iPad’s photo gallery and the program runs them through a psychedelic filter to create a beautifully-digital take on the classic children’s toy.

The work of artist Catherine Hubert, the collection of images included with Annamika come from her personal portfolio of designs. Based on the cities for which they’re named, the patterns featuring intricate shapes, lines and patterns (see above).

Once you’ve uploaded your image, you can propel the image into a series of swirls and shifts by dragging a finger across the iPad. Pinching the screen zooms into the spiral, while tapping the image twice stops and starts the animation, and a double-tap in the center blacks out the corners for a classic kaleidoscope view.

Another amusing filter allows you to randomly change the color scheme of the image, adding an element of surprise and distorting the image for display on a projector—another nice feature. Compatible with the iPad’s video-out capability, you can project your designs on any screen, which (when combined the animation) provides a great background for dance clubs or your next rave.

Annamika sells from the iTunes store for $5, and will soon be available for the iPhone as well.

Did we ever tell you about the time we discovered a work by Robert Ryman at a tag sale in Cheboygan? Turns out it was just a blank white canvas, but hey, we only paid $3 (and that included a saltwater-bloated copy of Farewell to Manzanar), so no harm done. But another bargain hunter refuses to give up on his quest to prove that the 65 glass negatives he bought at a Fresno garage sale in 2000 are in fact the early work of famed photographer Ansel Adams, who died in 1984. Retired building painter Rick Norsigian (who we suspect is an Antiques Roadshow fan) has spent the past decade trying to authenticate the negatives, which include Adams-eque shots of Yosemite National Park. His attorney now claims that “a team of experts” has studied the negatives and concluded “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the photos were Adams’ early work, believed to have been destroyed in a 1937 fire at his Yosemite studio. Specialists in Adams’ work were not among the empanelled experts, and the photograher’s heirs remain skeptical. “It’s an unfortunate fraud,” said Bill Turnage, managing director of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, in an interview with Reuters. “It’s very distressing.” And yet:

The shots are of places Adams frequented and photographed. Several shots contain people identified as Adams associates. Adams taught at the Pasadena Art Center in the early 1940s, which would account for the negatives being in Los Angeles. The negatives are the size Adams used in the 1920s and 30s and several have charred edges, possibly indicating the 1937 fire.

But analysis of handwriting on the envelopes encasing the negatives and of the cloud formations depicted in the shots has only, well, clouded the debate. For example, the annotations, thought to be in the hand of Adams’ wife (who grew up in Yosemite), are rife with misspellings. Matthew Adams, grandson of Ansel, has suggested carbon dating the charring and the envelopes. Meanwhile, a Beverly Hills art appraiser has estimated the value of the negatives (if authentic) at $200 million, based on current sales of Adams’ prints and the potential for selling never-seen-before prints. Norsigian purchased them for $45, having bargained the seller down from his original asking price of $70. He’s now selling prints from the negatives starting at $1,500 each.

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A new crowd-sourced portal to architecture’s greatest achievements and newest additions

The just-launched OpenBuildings online database organizes architecture’s finest examples from around the globe in an effort to share info and highlight stunning developments. Multiple methods of navigating the buildings—as a grid, list, slideshow or Google Maps overlay—allow for individualized browsing of the user-driven site, and a forthcoming iPhone app will make it easy to tour architecture on-the-go.

Already 2,000 buildings strong, co-founder Tom Mallory hopes the architectural community will play an instrumental role in building “an all-encompassing informational resource” for everyone from professionals to tourists. The wiki allows users to edit, add or delete items for a democratic (though remarkably thorough) look at architecture around the world. Register at the OpenBuildings site to submit a building or to just check out many of the amazing architectural feats already listed.

Coming soon, the free OpenBuilding iPhone app called simply “Buildings” prompts self-guided architecture tours to make it even more convenient to learn about our built world.

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