A post at Get Rich Slowly put me on to this 150sqft house, built and inhabited by the author of the simplicity website rowdykittens.com.
Check out the image gallery and read more about the house in the FAQ. It’s pretty inspirational, and makes me feel like a bit of a slob in my 1,000sqft house.
Here’s a video shot for Get Rich Slowly:
Now that we have a few USB powered monitors on the market, I hope we’ll see a USB powered Cintiq soon. The Cintiq 12WX I use is far too cumbersome to be a portable solution. It needs USB, DVI, and Power connections to work.
Via TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/01/aoc-e1649fwu-portable-usb-monitor-a-good-match-for-your-macbook/
I haven’t messed with layout sketches before. I have used standard sketches in an assembly to drive parts, “top-down” modeling, but I have never used blocks in layout sketches to accomplish this. As an industrial designer my modeling approach is typically bottom-up, modeling a full product within a single part file, and breaking it up in to multiple bodies. That approach gets my head turned around if I need to deal with mechanical systems and moving parts, though, so I’d like to try to work some top-down layout sketch techniques in to my brain.
Here are a couple illustrative videos I found this morning while looking things up.
Platoon’s Seoul Art Center is the most impressive shipping container architecture I’ve seen yet:
http://inhabitat.com/platoon-kunstjalle-seouls-shipping-container-subculture-art-center/
This is very exciting. Adobe has unveiled concepts that use touch-centric tablet devices to extend asset creation as well as control of their applications. Â We’ve all thought about it, we’ve all wished for it, and now it looks like Adobe is rolling it out.
They are starting with Photoshop, releasing a multi-touch paint application, an advanced color picker (with paint mixing), and a UI extender that lets you view open documents or choose tools with the tablet. I’m most excited about the last one, since it will grant notebook users the power of a dual display workstation without the bulk of dual displays. You’ll be able to prop your iPad up on the table and transmit everything wirelessly.