July's monthly single has been posted! "GD Woman" is the title track from 2011's "Freeborn" CD. Rip. Mix. Burn. Share. Link. Just play it LOUD!
Download link at the bottom left: http://about.me/flattires
And yes - the highbrow among us may be go faint at the knees or scowl disapprovingly at the more base and visceral - but I've got news for ya:
Cudos to whoever posts the source of title of the blog post. Hint: It's a movie that first inspired my love for technology and design at the age of three! It's the story of one man that can design, build and dream. And in the end he gets the hot girl with the foreign accent and gruff father-in-law (that turns out to be a soft grandfather).
Oh shit...the parallels are scary.
Do you make the decisions that your company ultimately implements? Do those decisions effect dozens (if not hundreds) of people and projects?
Are you essential to the success of your business?
Have you registered for RTC North America?
Get up on my stage one more time...
Times are tough. So here's what we're gonna do.
The first of every month the FLAT TIRES are going to put up a single. Could be a song from one of their albums. Might be a live video from a recent show. Full fidelity. Not some crappy low-bandwith MP3.
You'll be able to download the single for a month. It's yours. Rip. Mix. Burn.
As many of you know, one of the chapters in "Beyond" section in Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 is focused on using Revit in higher education. This past year, we had the pleasure of working with Singapore Polytechnic.
Well, there's a lot of buzz over the "cloud" at the moment. Apple has even got all the fanboys wetting themselves like puppies with excitement over Monday's announcement. So before Steve throws the switch on his patented "Reality Distortion Field" I thought it best to inoculate you from all the hype coming next Monday. There's a couple of options (related to Apple) and a couple of implications (for the AEC space).
How's that rollout of Revit 2012 going?
Figured out Revit Server?
How about all the other stuff in the 2012 release?
Well, there's at least two options:
Check out the insightful Terry Gross / NPR interview with Matt Parker and Trey Stone (of South Park fame) on their creative process while developing Broadway's "Book of Mormon". In contrast to taking about a week to completely write, animate and produce an episode of South Park, their Broadway production took the better part of the last 7 years.
Most surprisingly? It's not two cynical hours of bashing either religion (broadly) or Mormonism (specifically).
What if you could travel back to a time where you had no limits on your imagination?
Like when you were a kid. And you drew like this:
Wasn't I just saying how it'd be interesting if Apple bought Viber and how established companies frequently grow through acquisition rather than innovation?
And today there's this: Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion.
My advice? Put down the keyboard and slowly, quietly step back and move away from Microsoft stock.
The last post resulted in quite a few well reasoned comments and even three phone calls (one international). It seems that I've struck a chord. Three questions repeatedly arose:
Hi. Glad you're home. Long day? Sorry to hear. You may want to sit down for the next bit. I've poured you a cold one. Take off your shoes. Relax. You said some things and I said some things which is really difficult for both of us to talk about. And we need to talk. It's not you, it's me. It's not that we've grown apart. It's not that I've been thinking about seeing someone else. Well, sort of. And I really want to be friends. We can be friends, right? Take another sip and I'll explain. There's something I need to confess...
"Talk about unhealthy communication: a hospital uses GE call systems for patients, Philips Emergin as an electronic interface for notifications, Cisco wireless to connect communications devices within the hospital and Siemens for its main phone system.
Enter an iPhone pilot program for nurses, which helps them monitor patients and communicate with each other quickly across all of those platforms."
So starts a brief article over at Cult of Mac that discusses a pilot program to integrate the fragmentation that has evolved in the medical space.
Before the iPhone came along, there was this thing called the Blue Box. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first digital version and made quite a bit of money selling them to university students. Because if you had a Blue Box - you could make long distance calls to anyone in the world...for free.
In other words - Steve Job got his start by creating technology that was ripping off AT&T.
Did I mention that Blue Boxes were illegal?
I recently returned from a trip to Santiago, Chile during which I shared my experiences with BIM. It was quite an extraordinary journey that I have documented on Life@HOK. Read more about it…
Are you sitting at your desk, staring at your screen and already asking yourself how you came to be surrounded by a sea of soul sucking cubicles?
A few weeks ago, a very dear friend who (like us all) periodically struggles to juggle family, career and other commitments was told by a superior that he could either have a successful career or a family - not both. The frank implication of the message was that he needed to jettison his family if he was going to move up the corporate ladder. While the message seems rather blunt, it's strangely familiar. For those of us who have studied Architecture it's not the first time we've heard it.
FYI! Having quickly reached the "early bird" limit for attendees of Revit Technology Conference this year in Huntington Beach, CA early bird registration will close as of this Monday, 4 April (midnight PST). So far registrations have been received from 17 States across the USA as well as several other countries.
Everyone - please help us out! The FLAT TIRES are working their asses off and trying to get to the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, TN from June 9th-12th.
By clicking on this link and downloading the FLAT TIRES song "Pretty Lady", we'll be ranked according to the number of votes received. Only two bands - selected from the TOP EIGHT - will get to play at the festival. Voting ends April 15th so don't wait!
Hey, guess what? A post (or rather a link to a post) that has nothing to do with anything that's not about Revit.
David Light did a bang up job here documenting the new features coming to a workstation near you with Revit 2012.
Get out of the office early and go see Sucker Punch today. It's an original screenplay by Zack Snyder (IMDB link here), the same director behind such hits as 300, Watchman and presently tasked with directing Superman: Man of Steel.
Tell your boss you're doing it for research because 1) You need to be inspired and 2) Revit was used to design the sets and you're tired of hearing people of less experience and force of will tell you what "Revit can't do". ;)
I found this one - the Three Musketeers. Not so much for the obvious references but the un-obvious references. Two specifically. First off - well there's really 4 of them in this photo (Willem, that can be you on the right). And mainly because one of them is Charlie Sheen who at times can act like one of the key authors of this blog.
I think I'm gonna send Lynn Allen a t-shirt and CD to celebrate!
It's official! The punk rock band the FLAT TIRES and their album "Freeborn" that I had the honor of producing last fall has been put into rotation on Pandora! Here's a link to their station for your listening pleasure :) Headphones apply. NSFW.
