[Phillip Smith]

I agree with the metasequioa and the taxodium. Both beautiful trees. But my favourites are all Australian natives. The River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) is a most awesome tree. It’s best seen in the context of the subtle Australian colours.

The Smooth-barked Apple or Sydney Red Gum (Angophora costata) is an excellent tree for cultivation, closely related to Eucalyptus and Corymbia. It has the most stunning bark that glows a soft pinkish green in the right light.

[Phillip Smith]

Cant seem to upload any images sorry.

[Phillip Smith]

This looks fantastic Tracey. I’d like to read more about the process of developing this stuff. We’ve been looking at a similar less technical approach at the community centre I work at. We’ve been working on ideas the theme ‘things animals build’ – birdsnest, spiders webs etc. and developing a range of safe building materials that kids can use to construct their own playground.

[Phillip Smith]

There is now a Beta version of Rhino that runs on Mac OS. No need for parallels etc. You can’t do everything that you can on CAD but it’s a great 3d program and so intuitive. It can be used to import CAD files and transfer to Illustrator. Not CAD but pretty useful if you don’t really work in CAD that much. And it’s free at the moment for those who sign up in return for some feedback on the Beta.

I have an old Powerbook G4 that I love dearly. Never been a computer geek. I like computers only for their usefulness so my Mac has won me for it’s reliability and simplicity. The iPod is another story. I only got one because it was a Christmas store model that I got half price. I would never buy another one, mainly because of iTunes and its annoying automatic functions. No matter how I tweak the settings it still opens itself randomly slowing down my computer unnecessarily. I can’t stand slow grinding computers.

[Phillip Smith]

I’m studying Landscape Architecture at RMIT, Melbourne. I just finished first semester of second year. I did studio with Marco Broekman and Bart Brands of Karres en Brands who came out from Holland for the semester. It was a Lanscape Urbanism kind of studio looking at ways to plan a sort of parametric suburb that would respond to change over time. Very difficult, very interesting. I recently edited Kerb 16 Future Cities, our undergrad publication on LA. You can find details in my folio. I work as Horticulturist and Landscape Designer at a community environment centre; 6 hectares of reclaimed dump site. I’m heading to Delft in 3 months for next semester. I’ll probably stay afte that and work for 6 months or a year. They have some amazing landscape firms that I’d love to work for.

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