Iain Denby Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 Hey guys I was asked to send this image to a friend, so I thought I would also share it with you. So come on, let's see your set up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 i think you need to down the intensity of the light on the desk, it is creating a hotspot on the wall. besides that everything looks nice. ...did you use vray to process the radiosity solution? specs please.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 On the left..Dual 1900+ MP Athlon in a Coolermaster ATC-110 case. Epson 1270 Stylus Photo Printer. Also a little APC UPS 650 Pro in the corner. On the desk...Dual Samsung 191T LCD's, Logitech Z560 Speaker System, Belkin SOHO 2 port KVM. On the right of the desk...S5i 3DBoxx Dual 2.8B Xeon with 2 gigs of DDR. The little box next to it is a Shuttle SS51B XPC with a 2.53B Pentium IV. Graphics cards are pretty dynamic, but are currently a Quadro DCC, Ti 4400, and a Quadro 980XL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plastic Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 okaaay, nice screens, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 Beautiful screens marc . I love those things. I fell in love with the first one so much, I sold my viewsonic vg191b and bought a second one . Btw, if anyone sees a BLACK microsoft natural keyboard that is NOT wireless, please oh please tell me. My whole setup is black/silver cept for that DAMN KEYBOARD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 Originally posted by Greg Hess: Btw, if anyone sees a BLACK microsoft natural keyboard that is NOT wireless, please oh please tell me. My whole setup is black/silver cept for that DAMN KEYBOARD. I have a new black SiliconeGraphics USB keyboard that I bought and never used... come get it... BTW it has a PS2 port on the right side of it, so you can plug a PS2 mouse to it I'm affraid I cant post my work area after seeing all your beautiful toys and corners. I'm rebuilding my whole station so maybe in a few weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 biga, It has to be a microsoft natural keyboard. . Thats the only keyboard I can type at for an extended period of time without wrist strain/discomfort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 I have a new black SiliconeGraphics USB keyboard that I bought and never used... come get it... BTW it has a PS2 port on the right side of it, so you can plug a PS2 mouse to it Oh, I wish I had known about that one. I just went looking for a USB keyboard to use with my laptop, since it only has one PS/2 port. I hate the keyboard on the laptop, so if I am at a client's office and want to get real work done I need a real keyboard and mouse. By the time I add that stuff, the AC power supply, perhaps an external hard-drive--it's hardly a light, grab-and-go laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 My thoughts on the matter, for what its worth. I think i will treat this like 'Hercule Poirot' from an Agatha Christy novel, or Sherlock Holmes. The environment of work, contains many, many clues as to how we think and operate as architects, planners, artists and designers. I really, really think that your workplace says alot about how you work, what you produce, what ones priorities are. For me, i used 'the spare room/office' of my folks house to put all of my dinosaurs, and sometimes at weekends i test out a new piece of hardware etc, etc. I can Network render something or whatever. I once did a project for an architect who wanted to live and work from home. The reasons he said was, close to his family and not have to spend hours in traffic getting to work every morning. I had difficulty addressing all the issues in that design problem, since there aren't making great examples of living/working environments to go by. Yet the design problem is a complex one, and i think can boil down to detailed elements such as furniture and fittings etc. Not to mention the quality of light, views, circulation to and from your office to the kitchen, which is 'sort of the hub of family living'. It is the same even at a theatre, where actors ALWAYs hold their work meetings over coffee in the staff canteen, or green room. I myself like the views and natural light in my spare room at home. I can relate to Greg alot, as sometimes i am liable to have 4-8 systems around, all build to different modifications etc. But looking at my own private workplace, and some of the others, i know what lies ahead of me in future - better organisation perhaps. 10 Years ago, i was all drawing boards and sheets of paper, now it is four computer chassis!!! I like the way most people have chosen to treat 'their workstation' as just the particular area immediate to their computer, keyboard and monitor. For me, an ideal space to work in, has bookcases and places to put things, all stuff you like to have within easy reach. This comes from my early days as a painter, sketcher and artist, when my studio really was a 'place, or a space' to occupy, to inhabitat and to allow the mind to work. I notice you all have beautiful foreground environments for the eye to enjoy. I tend not to have any particularly nice organisation of my desk/space in the immediate foreground. But i do tend to 'like' having storage space, shelving, drawers and so on to organise myself properly. If i need a nice view, i go for a run out across the mountains! I notice that Greg has a nice little sketch board stuck to his wall, as a very convenient position to where he works. So whilst working on the monitor, he can quite easily turn his head the odd time and view 'the origianl sketch concept' of the piece of furniture or whatever. I feel this would help to keep ones own mind, on what the image or presentation is meant to convey to a client, public, brochure, sales literature and so on. I notice that everyone, has the computer screens turned on, with screen shots of the latest MAX dual screen fully DX9 compatible windows interfact. Me, i much prefer monitors in my space when they are turned off! You will notice that i look upon the work environment as the whole space, where i have easy reach to countless volumes of interest about architecture, art and design. I could definetly do with some notice boards or something to pin a sketch or two. However, some people can take that to extremes and soon the room begins to resemble a teenagers bedroom covered in pop idols, and sports star pin-ups. In fact, i am much better at reading and writing and thinking about architecture nowadays than i am at getting to work on cg visualisations. But then again as an architect, i just don't have the benefit of the focus of 'just doing cg'. I have spent an obscene amount of hours working for a living, doing IT support, software training and so on - when i would have preferred to have been designing, since the late nineties. To deal with this problem, which is i think a problem facing many young men and women of my generation - that of becoming 'the tech-head' just because no one else will bother to learn IT from scratch, i have looked for alternative directions in my life. I have nowadays tried to take a much more pro-active and genuine interest in planning documentation, masterplanning proposals, transport, public space and pedestrian environmental issues. I like the way the planning type of perspective gets the practioner, be it cg artist, architect or whatever out of the office or studio periodically. It involves a complete alternative spatial perception to the one offered by a standard 1:200 GA document in an office. Literally because the body has got to walk, cycle, bus or tram its way around the place in order to fully perceive the problem or the solution. Having said all that now, i believe you guys have great setups to do what you do, which is concentrate on cg visualisation. Me, i rarely use a computer for more than typing now if i can help it! So perhaps an old word processor, and a writers chair would sort me out much better, or a laptop i could put in a drawer!!! :ngelaugh: [ June 18, 2003, 05:09 PM: Message edited by: garethace ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Home sweet home. Horrible lighting. Hey, Greg, you ever have the Fire Marshall over to look at those wires under your desk? [ June 20, 2003, 09:31 AM: Message edited by: John Dollus ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted June 20, 2003 Author Share Posted June 20, 2003 Garethace Hey man, I don't mean to be rude, but had you just been burgled when you took those photos! :ngelaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Garethace Hey man, I don't mean to be rude, but had you just been burgled when you took those photos! Go right ahead and be as blunt, honest or rude as you like, because i couldn't agree more with you. I used to work in Dell at the time those pics were shot. It is evidenced all over the place, as i was constantly doing self-learn classes in IT science, networking and programming. So it is your typical geeks den full of books about Linux distros, the history of microsoft, the history of hackers, of computers... You see, if i were to go the computer programmer career route, that space could be just about right. Maybe a couple of server racks instead of a bookcase, maybe a basement concrete finish instead of first floor bedroom, but basically a tech-head like i was doesn't need much more. At the time of taking those pics i was mainly teaching software to young people, and had given up most of my drawing board work, design work and freehand designing for the sake of computerisation. I believe the computer needs to be tamed - one normally is better than four. The server if needed can be accomodated anywhere else in the building if needs be, with a lot of books, backup tapes, CDROM resources, printers, paper and what have you. I will scan some of the better designed architects studios i know from books etc and post them up soon. But it is vital for any designer to do a thorough record, analysis and pictorial view of 'the bombshell site, before it got 'the treatment'. I mean, i am not going to start knocking holes in walls or anything, but in a couple of years i know exactly what type, height, proportion of room that i need to do my job much, much better. I am at the moment, compiling together the problem, a brief of requirements for a good work environment. So that eventually, when i do have the money, i will buy/rent a nice place and know exactly how i am going to treat it. I will wait until then to think what kind of image my office should project to the public - i would like something spacious like Nisus has shown of his studio before on another thread. I must get a few pics of Carlos Jimenez, Richard Meier and Tom Maynes interior work environments though - all very different, but exactly what the architects wanted for their own places. The interiors of the offices often looking very similar to the architecture they design! I feel though, one has to start someplace, diagnose the worst that can happen with a workplace, know how to avoid all that when choosing or building a new workplace. [ June 20, 2003, 12:18 PM: Message edited by: garethace ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 I just got a new desk the other day so this is the cleanest my workspace has been for over 3 years (when I moved in) It will stay like this for a few weeks then once I'm back at uni it will return to the chaotic pile of rubble it usually is. It will return to normal in other words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 [QB]Garethace Hey man, had you just been burgled when you took those photos?Thank you for posting those. I am sitting in a mess of a studio right now, and had no intention of showing the worst mess of this thread. Now I am safe. Personally, I blame my mess on a never-ending seven-day-a-week schedule. No time to tidy up. But who am I kidding. My studio is the top of my house, so now I call myself "the thing in the attic". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 And all those short people who live in the same house as you? (Kids?) :angecool: Right here are some images to aim for guys: First up, Tom Mayne of www.morphosis.com Second, Richard Meier And lastly, a Huston texas architect i think, Carlos Jimenez. See them and weep, i wonder would it be ever possible to have such nice places? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Hi all, You might all have seen this before, so I just past in a link... (large image) My spot is somewhere at the bottom... Nisus Office @ AniMotionS rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Yeah, certainly did. I gave me a great deal to think about actually - a good work environment like that is one of the real pleasures of doing a job. I worked in a practice which had a very similar interior for a few months once. I must say, people do behave differently in an open plan situation than a cellular space. There is a different dynamic to how people interact, and one i think which lends itself well to creative tasks such as architectural design, visualisation and formalisation. Great photo, thanx very much again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted June 21, 2003 Author Share Posted June 21, 2003 I just got a new desk the other day so this is the cleanest my workspace has been for over 3 years (when I moved in) Kid, You got shares in Ikea, or what! :winkgrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 Can't say that i ever cared for learning old boring flight sims myself. But i like the way he has rigged his chair up though, you could almost fight a marlin or swordfish, with that kind of rig. I wonder is it possible to get a game for simulating big game fishing, looks to me where this guys should be headed. It would be like the Carribean fishing holiday every evening after work! Force feedback marlin fighting chairs, using state of the art Microsoft Sidewinder Pro USB2 technology! Comes with its own reel, rod and line! Ah i don't know really, might be easier to do the real thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archimniac Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 garethace, wow! whose place is that man?! But i think the number of monitors this guy has is scary man! gees...look at the number of cpu he has on the floor, i'm sure there's more! anyway, its real cool, seeing it for the first time! :ebiggrin: Hmm...is there someone out there who uses projector/s and screen/s instead of monitors? Will be real cool to see it! [ June 22, 2003, 03:51 PM: Message edited by: archimniac ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 The link is here: http://members.chello.nl/~s.ferris/ Have a look at his 777, 737, etc other images linked at the page too. You get the feeling, it is possible using a Geforce 4 and a few monitors to actually learn to fly! Come and join our bouncing bomb talk over here if you feel like it: http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=100022251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 I've been to Mier's Office in West Chelsea. What a sterile environment. There are about 20 models (physical and very large) encased in plexi and sitting on stands for the clients to see when they first walk in. Everything is white in that office. Kinda drives you crazy. One cool thing is there is a little woodshop (closet size actually) for in-house models, something a fellow UF grad convinced Richard to have rather than outsourcing every model they need. Anyways, I don't think I'd liek to work there. Too bad I didn't take pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 mmm... but not too much exitement in a flight simulator imho... I'd prefer to doom or quake that place... (but suddenly this lad remembers suffering heavy from migrain... ow ow ow... al those radiations will grill my brain!... I'm outa here... aaaaaahhhhhh... who had put that stick between my legs... *ggrr***) loooool! nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted June 24, 2003 Share Posted June 24, 2003 I mite as well join in the fun its a little messy but its home... -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kainoa Posted June 24, 2003 Share Posted June 24, 2003 In addition to the pic in my bio, here's a more recent pic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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