garethace
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I have to get the DVD edition of Minority Report – generally the flic does a good job, though the constantly changing newspapers should really be A4 tablets or something more manageable i think.
I would be nice to have A1 digital paper though, that constantly changed to update the lastest drawings etc. Save more trees too.
I do all of it myself, but i agree with you, it is time consuming and hard. Especially when you take scanning the actual pictures to the next appropriate level – individual correction!!! Check out my tutoria here:
http://www.cgarchitect.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000028;p=1#000004
Apologises btw, for not having airbrused the old campaign posters out of the views of Dublin, but i must do that soon. LOL. Funny the kinds of things you can leave behind in a photo having been so focussed upon the colour/contrast etc, etc.
If you are really desparate just email me, and i can scan your roll into my film scanner any time. Shouldn’t take my long, i can scan 6 frames as 4000 pixel resolution at a time, and burn the lot onto a CDROM in uncompressed TIF format. That is if you trusts me with your original negs! I am based here in Dublin, so i would be delighted to help out.
I was listening to Samy talk about the Calatrava documentary this morning on radio. I have never, ever seen one architect do a really good criticism of another.
Where is the Eamon Dunphy of good architectural journalistic criticism? Someone who is just so naive, they say things that everyone else is just too scared S******* to say? Or will there ever be a time in Ireland when someone like that can speak up about anything?
I respect the attitude you have shown Paul, and your motivation to make information available – even if 90% will always be kept under wraps.
“But just as the area’s public space has degraded gradually over decades, its streets can be tamed incrementally, one block or one intersection at a time. . . “
I found this quote in an article i was reading only yesterday. I think that strategy would be a wise one for Irish towns and cities. If you look at it at this level, there are sometimes positive news, sometimes little victories like Dame Lane for instance.
I went 3 rounds with a whino there myself only last year!!! So i know its charm or lack thereof personally. I have known Dublin for ten years, and it has changed slowly, in little bits here and there. Young people growing up now, don’t realise that at all.
What i am particularly interested in, is what has disappeared in time though. I.e. the very many laneways and routes commonly used in times past, which may appear on maps etc, but since have fallen prey to ‘Mass Block development’.
My only reply, to it is read this: There’s a very interesting phenomenon right now in our communities where collecting architecture is becoming a medal of status.
