Thanks for the links Mike. The price is already coming down then. I'm very interested in the prospects of having diy 3d printers but the RapRep project seems still quite rudimentary The fabbers seem to be a bit further on. I've downloaded a free version of Pepakura, a free "model unfolder". Interesting. http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

Thanks Edson. I will look this over carefully.

Wow, two big birthdays. Hope you both have good ones, and keep us in the loop ypnos.

Happy Birthday. Make this one count.

this video along with some more are available now at, http://es.youtube.com/etereaestudios

It's laughing all the way to the bank with someones $90,000 USD.

Kris, you are perfectly right about the 10% increase in constructions costs. Its the Chinese and Indian economies putting up all those new buildings. Maybe better to get out of buildings and into Commodities Investment Mike

As a Scot, I predict that we are going to be absolutely trounced (beaten) this year.

Thanks John, i thought you'd chime is before too long.... will go and have a look. Andrew

Believe it or not I use Windows media player Why - firstly because I love the visual Bars and Waves - Ocean mist, because it's one of the most accurate real time analysers around. ( I realise it wouldn't mean anything to anyone else) Also because I have all my libraries direct at hand, no need to load play lists. The only codec it won't play is realplayer .ram and apple .mov files. I have Realplayer Alternative installed and I try to avoid .mov files. What really annoys me is Quicktime - whenever I hit a page with quicktime it rewrites all my file preferences without my permission making it the no 1 player!! - it also pops up regularly asking me if I want to download I-Tunes. It's a pain in the A!! cheers john

just shows you can't believe what you see with your own eyes. in pictures anyway...thanks for the links

Oh Kelly, I missed this. Very happy belated birthday to a great guy. Many happy returns

Congratulations to your wife....I hope the "super-geek" will still talk to us common people..

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Good on her. Great to see here bouncing back. Alan

My muse is my audience. I have so many ideas in my head that I need to express, and the best reward of that is to see and hear people react to the things I do. It's not praise I look for, but the notion that something might spark or open up in the audience's mind. This is fuel for my fire. Generally what I have shown on this forum and my blog is going towards a comic book. I assume most people on this forum do not read comics, but that doesn't matter to me - I like to see how ideas are viewed. Hopefully, each one of the WIP shows something towards the themes the finished work will express. For now they appear as a jumble of incomplete and incongruous models. But they will interact and it does mean something, honest. (it's not just vanity)

the foundation piling inspired me to connect it to shipping containers... mmmm you could put them anywhere and then move them. [image: Drill_Piling_Container_004.jpg] [image: Drill_Piling_Container_003.jpg] [image: Drill_Piling_Container_002.jpg] [image: Drill_Piling_Container_001.jpg]

Hey--- what a nice thought- thanks guys!! I didn't get a cake this time- my sweetie got me an F-150 super cab with small V-8. Not new, but low miles. We LOVE it!! (Except for the part where we have to pay for it) Ross- Great Song- I like upbeat songs to listen to. When I play my guitar, I play sad songs. Crazy, huh? I almost didn't check the forum- been a long day. I go to bed now with smile on barley-pop face

Oh sorry, missed that. I am a member. I have yet to go to a convention though. It is always within days of the ASLA convention and I am going to that one. Can't do both. One of these days. I did take a 3 day watercolor workshop with Frank Costantino, one of the founding fathers, in Kasas City at the Mike Lin studios. That was great.