June 2011
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self-identified identity crisis...
construction worker - full support.
designer - bad support.
hipster - minimal support.
runner - no support.
my feet bear the brunt of my various day jobs. they must be so confused!
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architecture school makes us so cool that...
we make piñatas in the shape of the yale building project house we are building this summer… yes, because we love the torqued roof that much…
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“Man built most nobly when limitations were at their greatest.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
This is very true for me when I am trying to come up with a design scheme. When I am free to do whatever I want, the ideas are all over the place and have no foundation or reasoning. When limitations are set, rules are made, and then it becomes a game - to play by the rules and...
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“The more you know… the more beauty presents itself.”
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architecture school makes me so cool that i have...
Step 1. Export Revit model as DWG file.
Step 2. Open DWG in Rhino, calibrate scale because the scale gets thrown off. Weird.
Step 3. Orient model for Maya in Rhino, because y-axis in Maya is up-axis. Weird.
Step 4. Export Rhino file as FBX for Maya.
Step 5. Import FBX model into Maya, adjust camera “far clip plane” to see the entire model, because otherwise you won’t see the...
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long early morning run to the summit, farmers market, then cooked huevos rancheros. but just downloaded #rhino for mac - total buzzkill.
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one man's trash is another man's treasure...
a piece of scrap… tossed to the side of the construction site…
now lives with me!
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WatchFiona Apple’s cover of The Beatles’ Across the Universe
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Yale Building Project Update...
The roof beam is up! We spent the day calculating the lengths of the rafters and the alignment for the sheathing for the roof’s nasty torque!
