I don't know about you but I've always wanted to attend the Adobe MAX conference. Held each year in cities across the globe, and involving thousands of designers and web developers, the conference agendas provide a mouth-watering feast of material. Presentations from Adobe techies and partners provide a sense of what emerging technologies will bring to the Web, with Adobe product managers providing an insider's view of the applications we use every day.

The release of Adobe's new Media Player has made quite a splash this week but those in the creative community using the firm's design tools have received an extra treat, in the form of the simultaneously-launched Adobe TV site.

Most publishers of art and design books don't extend their relationship with their authors beyond distributing the books and sending the occasional royalty check. But one German publisher is showing that more is possible to bring creative projects to the attention of a wider audience via inhouse-created video.

What is the Bubblegum Sequencer?

"The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade."

Go to this website. As the video starts and Arcade Fire singer, Win Butler, begins to sing with arms outstretched, he is actually beckoning for some interaction. Click around (hands, face, other objects etc.) to interact while the video plays.

Captivating video from the Discovery Channel; starts with a block of optical glass, ends with a full lens assembly. Apparently it takes six full weeks to create a single lens.

Okay, so all opinions on Tom Cruise's mental status aside, who among us can honestly say that the computer in Minority Report was not, to paraphrase Paris Hilton, "tight".

Well guess what?

Brand New School is "bicoastal directing collective working in all fields of commercial art" that is creating some of the hippest and most recognizable TV and Web spots out there .

Pre-orders are being taken for the DVD version of Helvetica - A Documentary Film by Gary Hutswit.

Perhaps the most timeless and recognizable of all fonts, Helvetica turns 50 this year.

The self proclaimed "YouTube of the Avante-Garde," UBUWeb is chock full of all things less obvious. I thought about picking one obscurity out of the lot to highlight here…