Designed, composed and written as a grant proposal for the University of Idaho's sustainability center, this project was one of the first Landon and I worked on together. 

saying goodbye to a good friend

Landon's companion for 3 years and a great friend of mine, Roy, passed almost a year ago now. I made the book and poem for the service by experimenting with both hand and digital techniques.

Evidently we put the candles a little too close to each other. The outcome, however, became a beautiful piece.

skeletal rotation

Drawing 2 in class assignment. It's like inside out musical chairs with a skeleton in the middle. you get three minutes to capture the form of Dick the skeleton before you move on to the next chair.

ICMA Boise comunity center site

Every year the Idaho Concrete Masonry Association and the University of Idaho team up for a CMU design competition. For the past thirty or so years the competition has been to design a fire station.

This year the city of Boise has asked that we design a community center for at risk children that they will use to generate ideas for a real community center that will be built on our site (N five mile rd, boise ID)

Overclocked and striped UI

I have spent a fair amount of time in the past week tweaking my overclocked rendering rig i use at studio. I've been running my Intel i7930 2.8Ghz(133 bclk X 21Multiplier ) at a %150 overclock of 4.2Ghz (196 bclk x 21) but have never been able to break 51 Gflops in bench mark tests.

untill.... i discovered some UI tweaks in windows 7. I dorped the themes from windows and buttons, got rid of animations, drop shadows, transparency, as well as other bells and whistles that come with windwos 7. I also droped a bunch of unused services from msconfig from running in the background like fax, telephony, bitlocker, quicktime, among others... (this hasn't caused any major problems yet other than itunes wont run, which i'm not concerned with since i've been using foobar2000 lately to save on system resourcs during rendered sun path animations)

The results: a benchmark that breaks 51 Gflops! and on top of that, that score was achieved with a milder overclock (190 x 21) for 3.88 Ghz

I decided to tune down the overclock because i've been haveing some stability issues and wanted to see if the CPU was the culprite or if my memory latencys were off. So far it's been behaving and makes it through 8 threaded Burn tests at max load while staying under 80c temp.

Unfortunately i don't have all day to nerd out on my computer... school calls.

From home, to school

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