Posts made by Roger

I hear the mileage is not as good as the Prius.

@unknownuser said:

@roger said:

Here in Arizona we are loosing the war on the environment. Tomorrow the state legislature is about to vote in a law that would make it illegal to follow any of the UN environmental guidelines.

Er, why?

Edit: nevermind. I can guess why.

That's it.

I looked at your website and you are immensely talented.

You may need to prioritize you clients. Keep the enjoyable clients and the highly profitable clients. Dump the miserable A-holes and the ones that cost you money. Use the time that is freed up to market yourself to better clientele. Basically it is a skimming or distillation strategy. And you never turn anyone away you, just tell them you are booked for the next two months. A bad client can break you more surely than no clients.

Good luck and take two Valium.

I have tried to learn blender, but it seemed beyond my reach. When time allows I will try again.

Jason, inside every old man is a young man saying "WTF happened?"

And my first reaction was YEAAH! Its about time.

American football on Vietnamese TV. Cognitive dissonance.

As always an impressive render, but it looks like someone dropped some paint thinner on the varnished floor.

@brookefox said:

All that common area outside and we're pretty much completely cut off from it!

We could be in newyorkcity or some such, I reckon.

Thanks for the sky lights and doors and steps to somewhere, though.

This is a work in progress and it will open up when I reinstall the carved wood doors on the end wall and the clerestory windows. For you, I will throw open the wood doors and reveal a small patio garden which is not there yet. Last week it snowed on the mountains and this week it is 100 degrees. In fact, when I was taking measurements I had a laser thermometer with me. The bottom interior walls showed 75 degrees and the middle skylight area on the ceiling was registering 98. This is a room to have cool romantic dinners when it is 10PM and still over 100 degrees F outside.

When you retire to the living room you can look through an entire glass wall with mountains, hawks, and javalina roaming the backyard. Candle light dinners are for looking into a woman's eyes and not being distracted by external views. Each room has a separate purpose and matching configuration. If the weather cooperates, dinner can be on the walled patio with 180 degree nature.

One I put candles on the sconces and light them the place will start to come alive. I also need to rebuild the double doors on the far wall and reconstruct the clerestory windows. Also I need some plants that would do well in this kind of lighting.

Have you looked at the histograms of your images? The histograms are so dark that in some of the images, I can not see the buildings at hall. Had to take them into PhotoShop and redo levels just to confirm there is an image.

What makes "Key Shot" a preferred choice for product renders.

Clearly Snead is in the spirit of the moment.

Love the way you can spit out a half dozen different versions at the drop of a hat.

Has anyone ever met Pete. He could be just a very clever algorithm (and talented too).
But either way, Happy Birthday Pete.

Pilou, yes, those are invisible candles. After buying the house there was no money for real candles.

Imagine 20 houses on 200 acres with 180 of the acres being a natural common area with no fences. Some of my friends describe the place as a one-horse town, but I gently explain it has one intersection and many horses. When my place was built there was a house and separate garage. Then the previous owner wanted more space and enclosed the space between house and garage. The design of this space currently has my attention. It reminds me of a dining hall in a monastery. I'm am not sure why as I have never been in a monastery. So I am confronted with my usual dilemma - champagne taste on a beer budget. If it looks like I am influenced by Mexican architects Luis Barragan or Ricardo Legoretta that is quite possible. This project is more of an exploration than a journey as I don't know my final destination or estimated time of arrival.

Snead, I apologize. Gaius, I admit that I made a Mickey Mouse comment.

Kris, we have the identical rodent minus the bondage. We had a mouse in the house and in addition to traps we figured the large stuffed rodent might be intimidating.

Use dental floss and tiny little knots.

Nice render and I'll bet it was very time efficient to complete.