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Basement Remodel

One of our Basement Remodels. #architecture

We designed this house from the ground up. After a few years in the house, the owners decided to finish the basement.

The design employs some green features, like soy foam insulation, metal studs, locally sourced products, etc.

You can see more photos of this and other projects on our website:
http://susangrant.net

Check out this video on YouTube:

Commercial, Residential, Consulting & Pre-Planning services also available.

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Why $0.00 is the Future of #Business

Editor Chris Anderson of Wired magazine talks about retail, services & parts of digital content being FREE in the digital 2.0 world.

"Free is a psychology" -- indeed.

In the book, Anderson talks about the long-time practice of giving something away to get long-term customers. Anderson feels this is what periodicals and some OTHER INDUSTRIES will have to do in a more competitive climate going forward.

"Why $0.00 is the Future of #Business"

FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson <http://ow.ly/hV4s> < --- online version requires Flash.

Wired MAGAZINE Article at: <http://ow.ly/hUXN>

See the Anderson interview on Charlie Rose at <http://ow.ly/hUVX>

Funny, the people at Reliable Home (a Design/ Build Company in the western suburbs of Chicago) "give away" architectural design services, and it actually gains them more prospects/customers. It's also funny how naive those same people are in thinking that the services Reliable provides are "Free" -- when in fact Reliable charges them 2-3 times more money in the end (than if they had gone the traditional route of hiring a separate architect, contractor, etc.) He's basically advocating using an inducement (or loss-leader in retail) to increase your prospect counts (which turns into customers/clients.)

Anderson is right about the psychology of "FREE". It does work.

There is also a free MP3 (iTunes) audiobook version.

<http://ow.ly/hVdv> <- Free Audio MP3 Book

(When is "FREE" not free? when it's a paperback at Amazon for $27. )

Interesting discussion..

(Dinkyshop tried giving away free iPhone wallpapers etc.. had mixed results.. My website sgrantdesign.com though, has proven Anderson's argument.)

Susan G.

Free Screencastimg with ScreenJelly

Nice Cloud App. Allows you to record/capture and share three minutes of screencasting. Post on Twitter, etc.

Screencasting doesn't have to be a complicated affair. If all you need is a quick screencast to show a friend how to do something or commemorate your awesome Line Rider skills, Screenjelly can deliver.

To use ScreenJelly all you need is a java-enabled web browser. Visit the website, select your audio device (if you desire audio with your screencast) and hit the big red button. You get a brief warning count down and then you're on your way.

You can share your video directly via email or on various social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, Digg, and Friend Feed. You can record up to three minutes of video with audio, there is no option to edit in any way save for starting from scratch.

One minor caveat: if you have multiple monitors you will only be able to record on the primary monitor—although you can place a browser with Screenjelly loaded on the secondary monitor which makes it easy to smoothly start and stop your recording. If you have a favorite tool for simple screencasting, let's hear about it in the comments below.

Screenjelly [via DownloadSquad]

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Architect Loses Sight, Keeps Working

Inspiration: When Bay Area architect Chris Downey lost his sight last year, he refused to consider a career change. http://bit.ly/186lwq

#architecture
via tweeter @aksvenska
From Architectural Record

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14yr old Keys Beats Serena Wms

From nbcphiladelphia.com

Shot without Panorama Stitching

This is 2/2 shots before the stitching. AutoStitch takes multiple iPhone images and merges them into a single panoramic image.

It's pretty cool, and very easy to use.
Google AutoStitch app for iPhone.

Scroll down to the next post to see the panoramic..

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Evening Sky Panoramic w/ AutoStitcher

Two shots taken (11july 09) with my iPhone were stitched together with AutoStitch app.

Chicago Evening Lakefront using iPhone apps: iFlash & AutoStitch.

Hey iFlash, what's up with that lousy bug that creates a line on the right side of the image? It doesn't happen in any other iPhone app and can not be duplicated when just using the regular iPhone camera app. (the line is not in the original photo..)

just trying some things out..
Thanks,
SG

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Puppet Theatre at Harvard's Carpenter Center

Puppet Theater at Harvard’s Carpenter Center

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The Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the only major Le Corbusier-designed building in North America. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this building, a crazy-looking temporary puppet theatre was constructed within its sunken courtyard.

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French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe and Harvard assistant professor of architecture, Michael Meredith, collaborated on the structure using the help of computer technology and a team of GSD students. For them, metaphorical identities for the structure included an egg, a seed, a tumor, an alien spacecraft, and Le Corbusier’s brain.

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The structure is built with 500 white polycarbonate panels – each unique in shape — held together by 2,000 bolts to form a rigid frame covered in real moss, not its plastic imitation.

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Link Via [Judit Bellostes]

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iHouse: Small House Pre-Fab

Small Pre-Fab House #architecture

Thanks to Clayton Homes, the “i” prefix has finally made its way into the small house market. After 75 years of mobile home manufacturing, the i-house is Clayton’s first big stab at green building. On the swankier end of things, the i-house is super stylish and slightly more expensive than some of the minimalist exemplars featured here at Small House Style, but Clayton’s new invention might yet be considered a steal.

Clayton Homes i-house

On the inside, the i-house has all the amenities of the trendiest of contemporary homes: from flooring to faucets to light fixtures, everything looks snappy and up-to-date. On the exterior, butterfly-style roofing enables rain collection, optional solar panels account for about half of the house’s energy needs, and low-e windows contribute to making the i-house Energy Star® approved. In short, once you factor in stylishness and energy savings (according to Clayton, about $1/day can cover all electricity and heating costs), the i-house seems like a pretty good deal, all things considered. Comments on various blogs and websites suggest that the i-house might be too “Ikea” for some, but it’s definitely an exciting green prefab model, and it can’t hurt to throw it into the mix. For more on i-house configurations, square footage options, and prices, look here.

Clayton Homes i-house