Maeda's SIMPLICITY

Fall Foliage

The beautiful turning colors of the leaves in New England reminded me of a funny work by Ben Fry while he was a student here at the Media Lab. Eight years ago, Ben took the theme of leaves that change color and translated that to a tree full of traffic signals changing from green, to yellow, to red. If you click on the tree, the wind shakes the tree and makes the lights change quicker. Eventually all the "leaves" fall to the ground. Fall has never been more unnaturalaly natural.