Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 is finally starting to ship to our brothers up north in Canada. Jay Polding sends us a couple of shots plugging the Ontario Revit Users Group as well as Canada’s main export…
Mmmmmm…beer.
I recently took a day off (imagine that!) and spent the day with my family at our local water park. This would have made for some interesting new ‘in the wild’ pictures, but you can imagine what the water slide would have done to a copy of MARA 2011… Here are some of the latest entries from our readers.
Sean Burke from Seattle poses a copy of MARA 2011 in front of the city model at NBBJ:
One of my personal favorites…another submission from David Light getting quite literally ‘in the wild:’
So don’t be a tortoise…make like a hare and pick up your copy now! If you already have, please write a review on Amazon.com.
-- allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.
-- allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.
-- allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.
-- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.
-- allow blind people to break locks on electronic books so that they can use them with read-aloud software and similar aides.
iPads are next. And speaking of iPads...Mastering Revit 2011 looks amazing on it. That's right! Downloadable versions should be available as eBook and Kindle versions in a few days or so. Here's a screen grab from the Table of Contents.
Before we get to our latest ‘in the wild’ pics, we’d like to toot our own horns just a bit more…please forgive us. In the product details for Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 on Amazon, we have been holding steady as the #1 book in the categories of CAD, Drawing & Modeling and even Autocad! THANK YOU to all of our early adopters!!
Moving on to our ‘in the wild’ submittals…Steve Stafford creates a surreal composition of beer and scale architecture while attending the SCRUG meeting…
Our own MARA 2011 contributing author, David Light, got his copy today and shows it off in the London office of HOK…
In today’s episode, Brok Howard from St. Louis gets some rest and relaxation with his copy of MARA 2011 in the beautiful Citygarden:
But what should you do with your previous editions of Mastering Revit Architecture? Don’t throw them out! Take Tobias Hathorn’s suggestion for MARA recycling…
Keep those fun pics coming! See our original post for instructions on how to submit your own ‘in the wild’ photo.
We’re getting some great responses to our call for pictures of your copy of Mastering Revit Architecture 2011 out and about. Here are the latest entries.
Court Myers from Oklahoma City spotted Yoda brushing up on his Revit skills… “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
Robert Yori from New York makes sure that his copy of MARA 2011 gets the proper amount of fresh air and exercise…waiting for the bus:
And soaking in the sights on Wall Street:
As of Friday July 16, Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 has been shipping in the continental United States – all 5-1/2 pounds of it! We know we have some really creative friends, so let’s just see how creative you can be…
Step One: Get a copy of MARA 2011 here or here.
Step Two: Take a photo or short video of the book out ‘in the wild.’
Step Three: Email it to us
Step Four: Don’t forget to leave a review on Amazon…please!
If your entries are creative and cool – remember, we’re big South Park/Futurama/Family Guy fans – we’ll post them right here for everyone to see.
Our first pic is from fellow Revit guru, Mark Schmieding. He snapped this self-portrait while the film crew for Transformers 3 was causing mass destruction outside his Chicago office. We like to follow the words of director Michael Bay who once exclaimed…”I demand things to be AWESOME!”
Not from Mark, but on the Transformers theme…
The first sighting of our new book – Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 – has been reported in the US! Eddy got his shipment of promo copies today and just take a look at the size of this one…
Eddy, Phil and I are really proud of the content we’ve developed for this year’s edition. We hope you’ll enjoy it, too. As always, feel free to drop us a line at MasteringRevit or visit our Facebook page.
It’s still available at the discounted preorder price on Amazon.com, so hurry up before it goes up to regular price.
On July 12, 1960, the Etch-A-Sketch went on sale. An article in WIRED explains more about how this timeless toy does what it does.
Simple: “An internal stylus is used to…sketch onto a glass window coated with aluminum powder.”
Complex: “…employs a fairly sophisticated pulley system that operates the orthogonal rails that move the stylus around when the knobs are turned.” Try making a perfectly diagonal line on one!!
Anyway, I was immediately reminded of an image my friend Eric Bobrow of Bobrow Consulting once shared with me:
Are you still using CAD? Have you ever thought of what CAD really is? Think about it…
Just a quick note that I will be giving a lecture in New York City at the Center for Architecture on July 13. My presentation is titled “buildingSMART in Architecture” and will be focused on how the design profession needs to step up to the plate and provide more relevance to the building process before builders and fabricators take over our services – and fees. Several project case studies from HOK will be presented to support the notion of using BIM and integrated design and delivery to support life-cycle information stewardship, rather than just the latest way to deliver paper documents.
Registration is free, but you must RSVP at the AIA NY website by clicking here.
