Couldn't resist a Marion Mahoney Griffin tree render. In case people don't know she was responsible for most of Frank Lloyd Wrights renderings, and certainly the development of that style. [image: cUib_Picture11.jpg]

Reading between the lines I think it was the BBC who came up with the "bereavement" tag- it sounds to me like "The Rubble Club" (the name is a giveaway) has got less to do with helping architects cope with the loss of their buildings (they're too busy mourning the loss of their jobs anyway) as it is a tongue-in-cheek poke at the effects modern political wrangling and economic forces have on the increasingly disposable built environment. On the other hand, maybe I should apply for membership on the grounds that in my 2nd year at university I spent a week building a physical model of that term's project, well ahead of schedule.... then came home drunk from a night out and stood right on it. The sad thing about the demolition of the Forth Road Bridge toll gantries was that for 40 or so years they were just ugly engineer-designed (sorry) grey columns and beams with no aesthetic consideration evident whatsoever in the design. Finally, when this mundane structure, which is driven through by tens of thousands of commuters and Highland-bound tourists every day came to the end of it's life somone decided that its replacement ought to be elegant, interesting and given a little more thought than is normally afforded to scaffolding. Reich & Hall Architects delivered the goods and everyone who I heard comment on them (mostly non-architects) liked them and then 1 year later they were demolished... it just feels wrong.

@unknownuser said: HI ALL!! These videos about Sagrada Familia are simply awesome. Where did you get them from? Can you tell me how to find a similiar one for Notre Dame - Paris? Thanks. Youtube and Flickr search. If I have authorization of the owner I will upload new videos and images soon of the Sagrada Familia.

There's a bewildering choice of London hotels. It all depends on your priorities/travel arrangements/budget. Obviously, you know more or less what you are going to get with the big chains like Best Western or Holiday Inn. You also need to balance cost against location. There's a decent website here that allows you to search according to date and proximity to central London, along with a rough guide as to standard. http://www.laterooms.com/en/k16295585_london-hotels.aspx Obviously, if you see one you fancy then you can double check its ratings and reviews elsewhere. You can search in Canadian Dollars too.

Yeah, I have to admit that's the site as I remember

It's my understanding that the underlying engine in SolidWorks has been Mental Ray (for about a decade), yet the implementation of the interface in SolidWorks is so bad to this very day that it is easily worth paying up to $1K for a plug-in renderer like Hypershot, VRay, or one of the newer commercial offerings, if you are doing commercial work where time is money, and quality cannot be compromised. I've also used Mental Ray in XSI, and the complexity is pretty high, and necessarily so due to the need to enable features used for moving, deformable objects in an animation, special effects used primarily in movies, and so on. The power is there, but the ease of use wasn't, as of a year or two ago. My personal preference is something like Podium or Hypershot that does much of the work for you, taking away confusing options in the process, while still enabling renders as good as, or likely better than you could obtain in Solidworks' MR-based renderer (PhotoDoesn'tWorks) after hours and hours of PAIN. Yeah, as noted already, I'm sure they left off Max because no one would use the native renderer for product design renders, especially when it ships with MR included.

http://columbianmodel.googlepages.com/cmew Check out the public gallery. They also have 10 models on the 3D Warehouse. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=08289854392134475972 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-090608-chicago-model-pictures,0,6850601.photogallery?index=chi-egmodel0720090607152301

Marcel Duchamp

@chris fullmer said: And the article was from March 2005, so its a little dated now too.... true, very true. I didn't even realise it first as it came into my rss reader as "fresh". Maybe it was updated and reloaded? (from the comment at the very bottom, regarding Google cache, I could suppose this was the case). Anyway, the whole thing is still relevant as we can see scandalous things on the internet quite often I guess. So everyone just be aware.

Churchill on Clement Attlee: He's a very modest man. . .who has much to be modest about."

@unknownuser said: The other type of voting pattern springs from the view that the Red (Labour) party represents the average working man. The Blue (Conservatives) tend to support those who think they aren't working class. IMHO: The problem is that now the labour party in the UK considers anybody that has a career and can pay for their own existence as middle class as these people are more likely to display independant thought, not being solely reliant on the state and so are less likely to vote labour. The labour party deems people that don't want to work as "working class".

lol later they will come up with something that will communicate with your brain to make you actually feel everything

Burned it out? You know you're supposed to cut little pieces to size, not grind the sheet to size right? Lol, a new grinder isn't that much - heck, check Craigslist. Usually once a month someone is selling all their stuff.

come to think of it, which country is not run by imbeciles? good people have better things to do than get involved in politics. a politician that is not a moron is the absolute exception. of course, from time to time there comes one but they are far between.

Just came across a web appilcation that does this TiltShift effect. We can download this application using adobe Air! http://labs.artandmobile.com/tiltshift/

@unknownuser said: And for not make jealous take a look at my post here Yes, I've seen that. @unknownuser said: I don't know why but seems all progs want to born at the beginning of summer Maybe they want to go for a vacation during the summer.

That is a great find and surprisingly there are some advanced tutorials that are on SCF that are posted there as well. Great site. Scott

Couldn't resist trying... [image: sFCx_drawring.PNG]

Thanks for the input guys. We are in the process off developing a social media marketing "blitz". It will be interesting to see what comes of it.

The deadline for Challenge #001 - 100SF House has been extended to June 21, 2009. Please see the challenge description for more information.