I seem to be "known" in the Netherlands
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(This was seemingly cribbed from the SketchUp case studies...and that was something I did a long time ago, when I was a grad student! What in the world is it doing here? There's a Portuguese language version out there, too.)
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
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you have a style that is very distinctive, and natural. I like it. I translated the text, and it was very wordy in Englsh, but a good pitch for SU!
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Yes it is the Dutch resellers site. Back in SU version 5 days the site featured some of my work. I recall the guy did write me seeking the permission that I gave. What he's trying to do is show potential purchasers of the Dutch version (a relatively small market) the kinds of things other users are doing with the program. He seems to want to show the more creative or innovated uses and I admire that he takes that approach to marketing SU. I imagine his biggest market is architecture students more interested in ideas than how easy it is.
You'll note he does include the names of those who created the models/images, and it isn't just small print. The guy is sincere and he certainly isn't trying to rip anyone off. I'm also sure his reselling SU is more a labour of love than a way to make money. With the free version of SU out he probably isn't rolling in gilders (or euros).
Regards, Ross
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and that's what you do with your 1000th post...
pitiful...
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Off-topic: Lewis, Susan noted my avatar (watercolour self portrait) made me look angry. You avatar makes you look kind of angry too! Are you? I'm not. Smile
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I vote Lewis looks more angry than Ross. Ross, your's make you look a bit heavy.
Last week, RickW and I both got an email from a Japanese CAD magazine, requesting permission to put a few "free" scripts on a CD for one of their upcoming issues this fall. We thanked him for asking and obliged.
Todd
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@unknownuser said:
Alfazet is a Dutch reseller of SketchUp yes. Often pictures from the SketchUp site are used without permission, this is just something people do. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it's flattering and on the other hand they're making money with using your work as promotion material, for which royalties should be paid really.
It's old work, so I don't mind. I was just surprised to find this (I was googling myself, in fact, to see where that fantasy pavilion of mine was turning up, now that AIArchitect has profiled it: nowhere other than the AIA site, here, and PPB2, but I have had some nice email correspondence concerning it from an architect in Singapore.)
Actually, @Last never paid me either, and they used this project in printed advertising according to Aidan. But it was student work produced in almost no time for an assignment, and as Ross pointed out, no one has failed to credit me with the authorship, so I don't see reason to get upset.
By the way, Ross, I'm not generally angry...but I've been told that photo reflects my typical facial expression. Nothing like overwork and constant illness on top of four years at YSOA (a pretty discouraging place, actually) to give one a perpetually grim demeanor! I'll try to find something that looks more pleasant.
EDIT: How's this avatar? Age 11 (that's 29 years ago, in case you're wondering), visiting you-know-what for the first time. Come to think of it, I look a little grim in this one, too.
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
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Regarding avatars: Grim is better than angry. In my new one I look surprised. That too is better than angry.
Lewis -- what do you remember thinking about Stonehenge?
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@ross macintosh said:
Regarding avatars: Grim is better than angry. In my new one I look surprised. That too is better than angry.
Lewis -- what do you remember thinking about Stonehenge?
We went there at my insistence...I had been reading up on it. Even though I was prepared and was waiting to see it rise up out of the downs as the car approached, I was shocked to find that I almost missed it, as if it had just suddenly dropped from the sky to the side of the road. I was also disappointed that we were not able to approach the stones more closely...there had recently been some kind of damage from a protest or ceremony, and they had been roped off. Now, except for special occasions, you are kept even farther back it seems. Avebury was much more approachable, but less coherent (to my 11-year old mind). I've since come to appreciate the uncanny atmosphere of the other isolated and incomplete Neolithic monuments more--the cromlechs, single menhirs, and lesser circles--although I only visit them through reading and photographs these days.
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
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Thanks, rhankc!
It seems this is the site of a SketchUp reseller...I think. It seems to me that @Last/Google should have copyright on both images and text, if I don't. I never really understood how that happened...but Aidan Chopra told me at 3D Basecamp that they were using the English version of this on pamphlets sent out to architecture schools. Oh well, who cares?...it was a long time ago.
I'll have to add this to my resume in some creative way..."projects profiled on Dutch, Portuguese, and English web sites" or something.
Posted by Lewis Wadsworth
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