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If you are close, like, VERY close as not to need a hotel, and you get the steeply discounted student rate, by all means go. You can learn a great deal about the profession as well as some of the “nuance” of design by seeing may of the presentations. It can also serve as great inspriration for your studio projects (gives you a leg up on your…[Read more]

Did you see the job posting for the firm in Aspen on the Land8 Jobs? Just noticed it the other day….probably doesn’t pay enough to move to Aspen, but you never know. It will come around – my mom has been a realtor in Denver and is starting to see the building industry pick up a bit…..

Yes, but what about living expenses? Life cots a lot more then 3K. 🙂 Student loan debt has now exceeded credit card debt in our country…in some ways the marketing to attain more and more education seems like a racket to me. I bet you could start your own business and make more then you would starting out in an LA firm. We live in a small town…[Read more]

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Your post suggests a tight budget.  If this is the case and you must travel a long distance, I would say it’s probably not a good expenditure.  Also, the ASLA conference is large, and it’s easy to get lost in the crowd.  You would get better (and cheaper) exposure to the “real world” and have better networking opportunities by attending lo…[Read more]

Thank you. 🙂 I’m not Clemson person although I applied it.
 

I am curious. Are you taking out more student loans? Those things are a…well you know. 🙂 I don’t think I would go for anything I wasn’t being paid to study.

I would save your money…and since we have just been trying to figure out the way to pay our loans off the best. Don’t take out too many if any student loans. Totally off topic…but I wish someone would have told me that. We could have worked our way through school and ended up ahead.
earthworker, may sound really dramatic but that is many…[Read more]

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By all means… attend!  You’ll come away with a greater sense of what is going on in the profession, from lectures, tours, walking the streets of San Diego, and face-time with people young and older from all over.  There will be acres of displays in the Expo where you can test products, pick up literature, and speak with reps.  I look for…[Read more]

Don’t waste your time or money.  I have been to the conference previously (back when I had a job and actually thought ASLA was worthwhile).  The ‘conference’ is nothing more than an excuse for fatcat firm principals and owners to take a vacation and attend self-congratulatory lectures promoting their latest overseas projects.  ASLA and their co…[Read more]

Wow, that’s an odd bit of info to have handy!  Researching other industries to kill time, are we?  Or maybe relatives in the industry?
 
What will be left of family businesses?  This country is evolving into a corporatocracy!

For everyone looking for work, these links are not exactly “uplifting” but they might be helpful in a recession-coping kinda way….I mean by that, I got intrigued reading them earlier this week for thoughts on how to avoid some time wasters and how to not feel so alone if you are getting poor responses (examples from other…[Read more]

Hi David,
I’m sorry I didn’t make clear on my questions. I agree with you on how CAD style works well in 2D linework and Rhino doesn’t look perfect for building design. But in addtion to design in realism, I’m also willing to learn different rendering for experimental design.

Hi Joshua,
I noticed you are graduate student at Clemson. I will be a graduate student in this Fall as well. The reason I asked about software is I want to learn a software to accomplish my ideas to models in “artist” style like you said. Did you try abstract or bionics shape in your assignment before? (It doesn’t matter if Arch. or L Arch.) I’…[Read more]

Trace and Jason–lol  Maybe we should compile a list of “toxic client types”?! 
I will start,  Toxic clients are ones who have:
1. have too much time on their hands
2.  are involved in power struggles
3.  are trying to impress a boss…..
4.  are so totally geeked out on one aspect they lose perspective
Anyone, please add……

Somebody complained I was scaring small children. Thus the cartoon.

What happened to the DOUR photo?? I so enjoyed “bitter Jason”…..

I know…i was just sayin’! The taxes part seems to be lucrative…at least with the feds. That seems to be the only stable job around here,

Jason….I was just joking….I agree with you that safety is an illusion..I was just trying for some levity in an otherwise dour discussion.

There…is THIS better?