AutoDesk SketchBook Pro, Computer Sketches For iPhone

12 October 2009 | Category: Architecture Rumbling | Leave a Comment

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Autodesk Sketchbook Pro seems like an awesome piece of software. With all of these new software and hardware, sometimes I wonder where are we heading? Will lecturers accept digital sketches sketched on a multi-touch laptop? Looks like a very good police sketch artist software to me.

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And now we have Autodesk Sketchbook for iPhone, snap and sketch. Trace the outline, anything.

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Many years ago, I was involved in a heated debate on the effect of technology and architecture. A junior once said anything produced digitally with a computer is not a form of art; it has to be produced with tools such as pencils, paintbrush and etc.

What is photography, graphic design, and architecture then? When Photography was in film, it is art. Since the digital age caught up, photography is now an engineering course?

Come to think of it, art and design is all about ideas. Not so much of the tools we are using. Tools evolves, it is not limited to pencils, paintbrush, charcoal, paper, canvas and more. Indigenous Australian art (also known as Aboriginal art) is a form of art, what type of paintbrush do they use?

Art is about ideas, not the tools used to create it, be it digital or paper.

Then again, digital is not always the best media. Am puzzled on the court cases and digital evidence, it is not easy to airbrush a photo taken with film, on the other hand photos taken digitally can be easily edited with Photoshop together with the exif meta data.

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Odd And Amusing Real Estate Listing

6 October 2009 | Category: Architecture Rumbling | Leave a Comment

On behalf of all graduate architects, jobless architects, drafts-person, and all those involved in the building construction industry, I would like to thank George W. Bush for his significant contribution to the global recession.

Some are lucky enough to have more than one job offer, some are lucky to have few interviews but no job offer.

Some of my classmates are now tutors in Curtin University, some works for their father, some as real estate agent, and some as pizza delivery boy. Back in my uni years, someone told me Student-Senior A is a good salesperson selling a really bad product, although Student-Senior A is not in the real estate industry, it would be great to experience firsthand the ‘awesomeness’ of her selling the following property:

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image source: lovelylisting.com

A toilet bowl and a shower in the kitchen! The only place where we sleep, eat and shit at the same place is a prison cell.

Sniff…sniff… I smell something in the kitchen… Honey, what are you making?

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    Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. Calvin loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

    Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

    The author is not a CAD expert nor a web genius. Just another guy spending too much time online (believe me, way too much). The tutorials featured here are meant for basic level understanding.














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