tallbridgeguy

A great tutorial with a robot and photoshop. To be honest I just wanted to post the final image!

Nacho Riesco

Our office is building a can sculpture, with the final proceeds going to a local food pantry.

So I made a quick concept image to describe the project.

The weather has been unbelievable this spring. We are set to hit 85 degrees F this Saturday! ( I believe that is about 233 C, )

I wonder what the climate nay sayers think about this…..

From the Washington post,

The record warm weather in the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast continues to destroy century old records by unthinkable margins.

iPhone image

Airlight energy has a really cool rotating solar collector. (made with concrete, see that is the engineering hook..)

Another story about it here.

My first attempt at an introduction video for engineers trying out Google Sketchup.

Do me a favor, if you are new to sketchup and you try it by following this video, let me know if the video was helpful. If you already use sketchup give me some hints on how to improve my videos.

Thanks!

Straight across the Bow River it shot, the daring red tube between Eau Claire and Sunnyside, designed by an architect best known for his lofty cable bridges in gleaming white.

Dave Bronconnier looked out over the water.

The pedestrian bridge wasn’t there. The steel wasn’t fabricated. The construction contractor wasn’t chosen.

Santiago Calatrava’s bridge didn’t even have a name – it was just known as the “Calatrava bridge,” or grunted about in lunchrooms as “that bridge.”

The then-mayor studied the unreleased graphic rendering on his laptop from where he stood on the riverbank that spring day in 2009 and let his imagination place it over the river, one confidante recalls.

It may not have been what he’d expected, but it’s attractive, Bronconnier would tell others.

It finally opens to cyclists and joggers Saturday, more than 500 days after Bronconnier left office instead of about two weeks after, as was scheduled.

Live music starts at 2:15 p.m. and includes performances on the stage and on the bridge. Performers include:

Robot Workers
Hip Hop crews The Original Rudes and Grim Reminder
Spencer Jo & the Mandrills
Nix Dicksons
Locomotive Ghost
Calgary Chinese Cultural Society performers

As I sit here doing the sprinkler in my office chair (it’s a dance,what were you thinking it was) I noticed I passed 45,000 hits on my YouTube channel.

Obviously this is chicken feed in the viral video world but THANKS to all the viewers! ( maybe a video of my sprinkler dance would get some hits? Ha!)

Since I don’t have a window in my office ( think about that when you choose a career in engineering..) I have to look at a tree painting I painted a while back. The iPhone photo makes it look bad, no really it’s the phone not my lack of talent..

Thanks again YouTube viewers!

Did you know you could search patents through Google? Well I didn’t. If you search “Concrete Bridge” in Google patent search, this is what you see….

Does anybody really use patented bridges? I just can’t see how you can patent typical engineering shapes and how you make money on them.

Amazing footage and I believe free to download. (Always a good video to show students.)

Tacoma Fire Department (Video) – Castle Films (Sound)Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse (Sound Version) (Standard 4:3) (1940)