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If you want to make it as an entrepreneur then pretty much everything is “worth the effort” unless it takes away from getting paid work done on time.
At the very least you might learn something useful for next time.

Typically,  you need to be on a pre-approved/qualified list of licensed/insured contractors or vendors.  To be on the list, a firm has to show it’s qualifications through previous project experience, proof of liability & e/o insurance and have a certain number of years experience.  You can create a proposal for the project but usually you must me…[Read more]

I am organizing a design competition for the City of Nashua, NH.  The Call for Entries is scheduled to be released by mid-May with the anticipated deadline of the end of August.  We are still in the preliminary stages of the development of the competition.  In the next few weeks, you will be able to find a link to the competition from my web si…[Read more]

Hugh where is this site location?  I have looked over everything on the website and have not been able to find the geographical location of the park.

That’s the thing, I want to be able to quickly communicate an idea. Right now when I have a thought or design idea, I write it down…not very effective. It helps me remember, but does nothing for illustrating an idea. Thanks for you thoughts (everyone!).
 

Based on your bike theif example, all of the “powerful white men” should be helping her implement her design ideas (cut the chain), no?
Discrimination/prejudice exists in different forms within different industries, except maybe the 9 o’clock news where every race and gender is represented in the cast. If I had to make a sweeping generalization,…[Read more]

Hi Jessie,
I am currently running a competition specifically aimed at students, and you can get all of the details on http://www.slant.eu
Let me know if you have any questions and I will get back to you asap.  Hugh

Well after reading this prolific thread, just had to quietly chime in…as a semi retired woman LA in the south, there were/ probably still are subtle and not so subtle experiences like this, but I also got doses of it as a planner in city government. We would have a problem and I would make a suggestion nobody would react to. Then a few minutes…[Read more]

Same with craft paper, and craft paper can be electrostatically printed on without jamming the machine. I used to do it all the time in the oversize machines in Kinkos. Works great!

I went to the ultimate authority – my wife (white woman who used to have a jewish last name). I read the OP and asked “what would you do?”.
 
Her response was that no one takes anyone seriously on a team until they are on the same page as the team. You tell them what they want to hear until they start listening. Then you introduce new ideas. She…[Read more]

Since when is b-u-t-c-h-e-r paper a swear!? Land8’s automatic editing is so P.C. you can’t even use proper English. Ridiculous.

I make long posts and a lot of them, and I don’t blame you for not reading all of them or reading all the way through any of them. If you do, you will find that I do believe that there is discrimination.
If you read Craig’s, you would know that he is an African American … or as he said “black”. 
 
If you do not “go around them” or “through t…[Read more]

If you liked cgarchitect, and get interested in 3D, check out http://www.cgsociety.org and http://www.3dtotal.com. They’ll have tutorials and forums more focused on animation and character modeling, but many issues you’ll face in the 3D world are universal regardless of model.
 
If you’re like me and have trouble creating a final hand-rendered image that…[Read more]

I can not disagree more with the Sketchup to Max methodology, not if you want your renders to finish sometime this year. Sketchup is notorious for exporting messy and error ridden meshes that can cause havoc with rendering engines. The more complex the model, the worse it’s going to be as well. While Ma & Sketchup share some 3rd p…[Read more]

Didn’t Maui Bob write something about Martha leaving her post at Harvard? These guys are clueless!

Wow! You and Andrew are sooo far off base!! Typical white dude mentality! Is it okay for me to write these comments, Sir, My plantation master? Read my post below and wake up!

Boy-ohh-boy…there sure are plenty of male chauvinist P.I.G.s in here! No surprise. I love all these men in here with their high testosterone comments about “standing up for yourself”, “discrimination doesn’t exist” or “walking through and over people”. I suggest to you is to put on makeup and disguise yourself as a black man. Take a drive and w…[Read more]

Yeah right! You only act tough and bring up your sexuality in here with us since you stay anonymous, but when you had the chance to reveal your true colors at a company function….you ran and hide like the coward I suspected.

No one is standing up for bigots and jerks. What some are saying is that courses of action are limited unless there is clear, provable in a court of law, discrimination going on. It is not about accepting them, but it is about moving on despite them. Yup, it sucks to have to work harder because of it, but any person working harder is stronger and…[Read more]

You will need many manuals and many tutorials to master 3d studio max…To get started however, you can check out Lynda.com, or the message boards on cgarchitect.com, there is a 3d studio max forum on there that has lots of tips, techniques.  Other than that, look at books from 3dats:
http://3dats.com/products.asp?ok=1
I agree with Fremont, do…[Read more]