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Yes I am contradicting myself, by pointing out that ASLA does not take the steps to promote the industry, they should look outside the box but do not. Would celebrity endorsement help? it couldn’t hurt! If Oprah had a special on Landscape architecture and the role of LA’s on the Green industry it would reach and educate more people in a single…[Read more]

Oops, you are so right, Brian. Got my schools/athletes mixed up…Sorry, I’m a Rutgers Big East guy. My apologies!

I think Eddie is great for our profession and we should use any and all means necessary to continue exposure. I think Eddie might not like you saying he went to LSU though. I am sure it is a great school and everything but he actually graduated from The Ohio State University. He also has an MBA from Northwestern. I think he is a solid “Big 10” guy. : )

I don’t know if its ‘celebrity’ status, but one of the few ‘high profile’ people to advocate Landscape Architecture, and still does, is former NFL running back Eddie George. I have read many articles and online ASLA material featuring his efforts to raise awareness of our field. The difference from Brad Pitt, is that Eddie George has a BLA from…[Read more]

I agree completely.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Just a quick question. Are you running Indesign off of the server? If so Adobe does not support this type of environment. The software needs to be natively installed on each machine and access the server for your license key only. I would check with your vendor and if he says otherwise then he does not have a clue. I have run Adobe CS on Mac and…[Read more]

In general just being a celebrity does not warrant an honorary membership. But Brad Pitt has funded Make it Right, a group dedicated to building 150 green homes in New Orleans. The foundation has a landscape architect on staff. Sounds to me like the staff should educate Mr. Pitt about landscape architecture. This endeavor is among other…[Read more]

I am still a student, but I have used all the software hardware configurations discussed here either at the University, on my personal machine, and at offices where I’ve interned. There is little difference to me for Adobe on mac or pc. I get a few more crashes when running AutoCAD in a Parallels simultaneously with CS4 on the Mac side. But that…[Read more]

Hello Al Fathi! This was very helpful
Thanks a lot
Cheers

You seem to be contradicting yourself, perhaps on purpose?

In your opinion, should ASLA approach people like Brad Pitt, for example with an honorary membership?

Macs are a no-no wit AutoCAD, and a huge waste of money (time to get a new consultant, too). If your central system uses PC, stick with PC. Besides, you should not be having trouble with InDesign for PC. Adobe actually develops for PC first nowandays. Sounds like you need to do fresh installs (not upgrades) on all the PCs. A total fresh install…[Read more]

My 2 cents, however YMMV (your mileage may vary). Indesign is a publishing program, much like PageMaker was back in the day. You may have more success with Illustrator as a tool for vector based rendering (I am assuming that is what your using it for, then exporting to an eps or some other file that can be imported into AutoCAD). Illustrator may…[Read more]

STOP waiting for ASLA to promote the industry, if you want to promote LA’s in the green industries you need to promote yourself and put yourself on a team that competes for RFP’s and RFI’s you need to educate the architects and engineer’s as to what you can add to their team ASLA will never do that for you. The Brad Pitt Story is a perfect example…[Read more]

hi, wow… i never heard of such a procedure… we have so much fog here in northern California, will look into it. -cliff

Of course there are fog desserts in several parts of the world and plants there have adapted to collect fog.
Such as http://www.synbio.org.uk/component/content/article/53-plant-biology-news/1400-the-plant-that-can-water-itself.html?directory=255

And then there’s this:
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-05/invention-awards-watering-plants-desert

I was at the Philadelphia show 08 or 09, (cant recall) and arrived in the am for an LARE review. I was surprised how few people were there in the morning, I guess many groups go out on their excursions on the first day. When I left in the afternoon, I saw quite a few registering onsite. Like many conventions, you are all pretty much excluded into…[Read more]

Yes but not in a L.A. firm where I want to be employed. Is this a no? sorry for the editorialization