...or where?  Is it a chaotic corner or are you lucky enough to have your own space

Here's my place of creation that I share with some of my dragons.  The other side of the room doubles as my dressing room :lol:

Gill

       

Wow, this looks extremely tidy, Gill! I 'm lucky to have a large desk in my big basement room that serves as a guest room, computer room, audio studio, and gym! My desk has books and CDs all over the place (off limits to anyone else!), between the graphic tablet, the printer, the large monitor, and the scanner. I find all I need there most of the times, but there are the other times when I wish it was organized (but then I find what I want, and conclude there is absolutely no need to change anything!)

I like to be tidy wherever I work!    Though what isn't in shot here is a set of stacking boxes (floral of course) that houses my disks and other paraphenalia.  It's all hidden behind the door.   Fortunately, one thing that didn't show up here was the layer of dust - hasn't been done since middle of last week (nawty me)

I ditched the printer ages ago.  The inks used to dry up and was a waste of money as I don't print very much.  If I DO need anyting printing off I zoom it over to hubby's compter and he does it.

Gill

       

Not exactly tidy, but not to messy:D

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

This is my little creative cockpit where I spend most of my free time either Vueing, making music or gaming.  Paul, I see you might be a gamer as well eh?

There was a time when this whole corner was a mass of black spaghetti cables, keyboards, huge consoles and other stuff. But the miracle of modern technology (and saving buku pennies) has allowed me to streamline down to what you see here. 

The tall black thing in the right corner is a Bose L1 sound system. The sound is so pristine it forces you to be a better musician. The black box on the floor is a power board with harmonizer and guitar synth. Wind controller, module and recording deck on the left and Alvarez, Mike Kelly and Godin instruments on the right.

I have to keep the side panel off my pc with a fan blowing into it.  My vidcard (overclocked) gets way too hot. Sometimes, I'll turn everything on and turn the lamp off and just sit back and look at all the pretty lights lol.......

Yeah man, marriage and children force me to stay home more than i would like to, so i gotta do something when not at work or in Vue, so gaming is the extra(; My Wacom is t ucked away, bit i got all the pretty lights on my G-11 keyboard and my razer copperhead to finally blink for when i a,m REALLY bored:P  You got one hell of a setup there buddy. I cannot have my cover on either as you see or it'll blow up:D My GTS is way overclocked. And still...Crysis plays like crap...looks nice though:D

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

Quite tidy Paul - for a man !!  Though the area does look very masculine.  The photos are a nice homely touch though :)

Mark, yours looks a little too chaotic for my taste but with all the music stuff in there as well, it's hardly surprising.  I do like your table lamp though. 

Thing with me is - I like using the technology but I hate it being on show.  My 2 external drives on my desk are camoflaged with dragons and postcards.    Yes, my TV is in a big cupboard and the doors are only open when it's being watched.  AND I don't have a TV in the bedroom.  Hubby has a little mini TV in his tiny computer room but I rarely go in there.  He makes model planes......I need say no more !!!!

Gill

       

Nice thread, very good idea Gill.

Here is where I sit right now - office. Being self employeed I can do Vue whenever I want - or have the time. Therefore mostly in the office, not very often at home, where i only have a bit of space on the desk of my wife. Her empire there.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

Well, my space is a bit cramped. And between the OCD and the bi-polar i kinda have to keep it relatively  clean or my head will pop:D

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

Now that looks a lovely space to work in Walther.  It looks really serene and calm.  The surroundings look great too - the shape of the windows and the old fashioned radiators.  I like that kind of thing :)  The big plant breaks up the whiteness just right.  So far, you have my favourite Vueing place!!

Gill

       

Thanks Gill. It indeed is an old castle where we have our office now since February this year. Very serene really and inspiring. I enjoy still coming here every day.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

An old castle? WOW what a wonderful place to work!!  When I win the lottery I'm going to buy me a castle

Gill

       

Well, we just rented some rooms in here of course. Not very expensive even but with a lot of atmosphere.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

Cool idea! I love seeing where everyone works. Here's my space in what used to be the diningroom. I didn't tidy... much.

Oh and I think we should all move to Wabe's office. it's big enough for the entire forum! ;)

Gosh I'm just looking again at Mark's and Trepz's systems. Fantastic looking speakers and Marks musical equipment looks great! Must sound really nice in both places. I have a couple of tiny speakers i bought at the super market. They make all sorts of fantastic noises too... especially when I set my cell phone down somewhere near them. sheesh!

My speakers are built in to the monitor but that's OK because I listen to music on the hifi (covered in a lace cloth - of course!) that's to my right :-)

Gill

       

I will trade my speakers for your dual wide screens any day of the week:D

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

Hummmm. interesting idea. I shall think about it. ;)

Some great working places, should be fun to create there!

Mine is a bit crowed, there are all kind of critters in my little part of the living room! ^_-

Peter

Is that a tigerskin chair I spy ?

Gill

       

No, it's real artifical zebra skin! ^_-

Peter

"No artificial zebras were harmed during the making of that chair!"

Gill

       

WOW, can you believe that setup Wabe has?  I think he still lives with his mother.  :^)

LOL - how do you know? And she is doing still the washing for me - no question.  But I can tell you, we have a wonderful morning here - here a little image I just did out of one of the many windows here.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

FAKE---I see some of Linda's lush plants and some from Martin Frost in the window of French Kiss! 

Can you believe how clean that room is?  Like they say, a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind :^)

And Walther always told me I wasn't quite right in the head, so...

Okay Gary! Let's see yours! :)

Oh well, you forgot to mention the fake fog plants that someone has provided! But do I feel just a bit of jealousy Gary? Good!

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

I'm green with jealousy over that view from your window wabe!  I'd love to see an outside view of the castle.  

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No problem, here is a photo taken in February (when we moved in). It is taken from the side you have seen in the first image - and you can guess which building I am in at the moment.

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

So far Wabe takes it by a landslide.  Gimme a day or so to chase the rats out of my office and remove the cobwebs  from the walls.  I also have to figure out how I am going to extricate the family of racoons living in my desk drawers.  When I have it cleaned up, I will snap a pix for you folks. 

Ok, but I would like the photo with the racoons! I don't care much about rats but racoons are funny! ^_-

Peter

Wow, i see some creative corners here ! Here 's my "room with a Vue"

The bottom pic i added for Monsoon who also seems to play guitar :-)
Wabe 's desk is out of this world indeed, it 's way to clean LOL !!

I use Mac 's but they won 't show in the pics because they are located in another room, so that there is no computer noise in the 'music room'

 

Society failed to tolerate me...

... and i have failed to tolerate society

 

Hey nice studio you have goin there!!  Looks like you're into serious production. Nice rig.

What kind of music do you make in there?  I'm trying to perfect the live looping thing with the 3 voice guitar and wind synth. Progress is nothing to write home about but it's slow and sure....

Hi,

I write pop, rock, ballads, spacemusic, dance... whatever gets in my head at any moment :-)
Once i had a gig on Eurosong 2002 on television and in the past i had various record deals.
But never it made me a rich man LOL

However since i got to know Vue and 3D i do not make music much anymore these days (sadly enough) but on the other hand i gained a lot of fun with making 3d stuff !!

 

Society failed to tolerate me...

... and i have failed to tolerate society

 

Welcome to Cambrian Moons Grand Central!!

Not a patch on Wabe's setup though, his looks like a room from one of those hip Scandinavian style catalogues.

The PC is under the left hand screen, the Mac Mini hides under the drawer unit on the right, and those are Bose Companion speakers, great for movies. Sidewinder joystick for Flight Simulator, and somewhere in there is a Wacom A6 tablet.

Midfield, two Kensington Pro trackballs, expensive but excellent.

Appropriately perhaps, the poster on the wall is from "Grace Under Pressure", the 1984 RUSH album.

www.CambrianMoons.com

Those of you with masses of equipment - you either have extreeeeeemely large houses or very understanding families :laugh:

I suppose we're lucky - 2 people in a 3 bed house.  1 for an actual bedroom the others are our own private spaces

Gill

       

Yep, thats where I am jealous!
My own working space!

Now I am in a living room corner, trying to work with my girls and my mother in law watching "Desperate housewives"!

And I am a desperate artist, maybe I could install my gear in the cellar room on the washing machine?

Peter

Just  myself to worry about spacewise. Luckily. I spend so much time there in my own little worlds that if I were married, I'd be divorced.

Quote - I suppose we're lucky - 2 people in a 3 bed house.  1 for an actual bedroom the others are our own private spaces

My wife and I are lucky in the same respect - we have 2 people in a 3 bedroom house, meaning that she can have her neat office and I can have my warzone  dump office. If I could find my camera I'd get a pic of it ;)

edit - you lot are all so neat!

Dreams are just nightmares on prozac...
Digital WasteLanD

If I can ever create a scene worth showing this is where it will come from.  Not a whole lot of room, but it'll do.

Talking of 'warzones' - I'm almost ashamed to post these....just snapped hubbys room. 

EWWWWWWWW I shudder every time I go in there.  Rows of plastic model airplanes, bits of model workinprogress on the ucky desk.  Bits of lord knows what lying around, empty coke cans......   :cursing:

He even has it painted 'man colours' - the only room in the house that's not variations on either pink or green

Gill

       

The distance shot. 

The 'Sword Of Valhalla' precariously perched on the wall was a Christmas prezzy from me a few years ago.  Luckily, neither of us has suffered a pierced foot....YET

Gill

       

Here is my little place ^^

Actually i'm stuck in a corner between the wall and the drier lol It's the only place i was supposed to be creative :)

In fact, it's the three cats's room, they rent it to me for my computer stuff. What you can't see here (and don't want to) is the 2 cat's sand box that are on the drier's right. I can tell you sometimes my creativity runs away because of the 'heavy atmosphere' LOL

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There's a lot of red in there.....good for dining rooms, not sure about creativity

Gill

       

I got portability! Yes, that is the dining room table, and that is a Macbook Pro, recently upgraded to 2MB Ram.

...Insert some witty or thought provoking comment here...

"AboranTouristCouncil" 2 MBs of RAM, no wonder those MACS are so slow, LOL!!!! I know that will get a rise out of the MACHeads, tehehe. All 4 of my machines have 4 Gigs of RAM each and I am going to install a 64 Bit OS on My E8400 that I just put a Heatsink on and Overclocked it at a Roaring 4.60GHz. But I ain't showing ya my room. My deceased wife was the Neatnic and I have things scattered everywhere!!!!!!

I would rather be Politically Incorrect,
Then have Politically Correct-Incorrectness!!!

A littkle late to the party, here is my brand new cave.

Don't let this clean corner fool you - the rest of the room is full of boxes of books I have not had time to unwrap yet :)

• agiel - www.linfa.net

I'm quite jealous of all the dual screen setups.  I'd like that but then there wouldn't be room for all my dragons, photos and pretty boxes :blink:

Gill

       

Yep, when I see those big screens!

But do as I did Gill, I use two 15" screens, I don't have the space to use bigger and for Vue 6 Esprit/Pro it does not make any difference.

Can you use two screens with 6Inf?

Peter

It's nice to get a glimpse of everybody's little creative corner.

For future reference, I made this thread a permanent feature of the Community page. Look in the Links section, next to 'A face on a name'.

Regarding the screens, I tend to use Vue on one screen at a time... the other screen is for reference material, email, IM etc...

Once you have tasted using two screens, you can't go back. It is just too useful.

• agiel - www.linfa.net

At some point, i vow to strive to pull myself away from outdoors... and when im not there, im vueing...

anyways, and take a pic.

think i need to clean.

oh and i envy you right now, Gill.  a room to yourself.  oooooooooo.  i am currently in a 7 and a half foot wide by 32 foot long mobile "home".  The only door leads to outside and the outhouse.  you'd hate my house.  neatniks always do. =D  things tend to be clean - but not tidy or neat.  its really hard to here

i gave up a lot to live my dream in alaska, but even though i miss it, i wouldnt trade it for anything...

and i agree, agiel - once you go dual....

wow.

i have managed to drag vue (and poser) onto my second screen, as well as componants of them (animation pallet in vue, various popout windows in both), AND make vue stretch across both (i quickly had to stop that - it made me nausiated) - now, the programs stick to screen 1 - and chat, email, etc on second screen.

how did i ever live without this?  wow.
~meli

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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Haven't seen you around Melikia. Hope things are okay.

I'm still tidying. :-)

hey mycat!

I've been around, just very quiet =D  took longer than i had hoped to recover from surgery this past february.

by the time my body finally settled down, my parents & daughter came up for a visit.

im still recovering from THAT (and its been a month LOL)

no worries though... once snow flies again (mid to late september) you'll be seeing a lot more of me - to the point you'll probably be begging me to hush already ;)

im also in the process of convincing people to try the PLE - and then getting them hooked... MUAHAHAHAHAHA.

even my daughter had the basics figured out in 2 shakes of a lambs tail.  at some point, i shall have to get vue for her.  she keeps getting overwhelmed looking at the poser 6 i got her LOL.

"MOMMY!  SHES A PRETZEL!"

good, honey... now - remember those dials?  twirl 'em =D

but its difficult teaching long distance like i have to with her (until someone decides to give my dad a job up here)

chuckles

good news is, even with all the chaos in my life (i really have GOT to get a better nickname for myself - the chaotic kitty just adds more chaos LOL), i managed to land a job illustrating a children's book with a local published author - so, i foresee a few months of being "quiet" again - once they get what they're wanting to me LOL.

uggg - i need to tidy things and then find my camera LOL.  ebil hubby hid it.  i know where the tripod is - not that THAT helps.

how is it in such a small space, i can still lose things?

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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Well here's my little creating space LOL!!! :biggrin:

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face. I am a traveler of both time and space ....Kashmir, Led Zeppelin

My room is a complete dump :p
Wall to wall with D&D and art stuff...old Iron Maiden, D&D  and Christos Achilleos posters :)

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Tutorials on Poser imports to Vue/Bryce, Postwork, Vue rendering/lighting, etc etc!

But some folks (men in particular) seem to thrive better in messy dumps.

:lol:

Gill

       

I have a low untidyness threshold, easily solved by frequent visits to the charity shop and eBay.

www.CambrianMoons.com

Gill',
true! true! ;)
hm, dunno if you know the UK celebrity naturalist/animal conservationist, David Bellamy, I kind of look like him with the beard my pals say...
lampoons David Bellamy, but in his own bedroom!

*"The flowa and the fauna of the avewage Man's bedroom is wondewfully wich stuff! Mmmmm, look at those socks! Looks like they have been bweeding! There's tons of the buggers, evewrywhewre!"

:lol:

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Well as the addage goes...."If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what's an empty desk the sign of?" :)

It has taken me most of my life to graduate from male slobhood and in fact, it was our craft that helped me. Once I realized how very important it is to keep one's files organized and started doing it, it sort of oozed out of my machine and into my surroundings. It's not perfect, of course, but a far cry from the maelstrom it used to be.

Quote - Gill',
true! true! ;)
hm, dunno if you know the UK celebrity naturalist/animal conservationist, David Bellamy, I kind of look like him with the beard my pals say...
lampoons David Bellamy, but in his own bedroom!

*"The flowa and the fauna of the avewage Man's bedroom is wondewfully wich stuff! Mmmmm, look at those socks! Looks like they have been bweeding! There's tons of the buggers, evewrywhewre!"

:lol:

Yea, course I know David Bellamy (not personally of course!).  Socks are bad enough, it's when the manpants start bweeding under the bed that makes me barf   :lol:

Gill

       

Gil,

looks at her location in left of text
*"DOH!" 

• Location: Olde England
  :p

Hehe!! Long as they aren't the genus Skiddus Markuss, it's ok!
But then again, gals seem to think their handbags are the TARDIS...
:woot:

Monsoon,
yeah, I get the urgings ot tidy up as I get older..I resist, mostly... :biggrin:

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my, dumb place =D and yes, it's a lame laptop (but it works! ;))

Oh crikey - do you put your bum on that?  I like my comfort - an old Edwardian nursing chair with an added feather cushion on top !! 

My bum may be well padded but I couldna sit on that :lol:

Gill

       

Vaaern: At least you have someplace to let it sit overnight for those long renders. I use the dining room table, and unless I put my 'toys' away, no one gets to eat dinner.

...Insert some witty or thought provoking comment here...

This is my comfy seat of power

Gill

       

haha, yea but my problem is on the other side of the picture, and that would be my door, i'm living with my parents and I must put my computer off after midnight, so no overnight renders for me (the sound of my laptop would irritated me endlessly so i don't mind :p

aren't you glad vue can pause & resume renders?  i jumped up and down for joy when i discovered that feature =D

.....am waiting for hubby to bring me new desk inside & for me to get to organize it before i take a pic.  i DID get the old desk clean, though =D  ... mostly ;)

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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Depends how old your desk is.  I'd love an old antique oak desk to work from rather than the ucky orange pine one that I have.   I may paint it one day....white or pink.....

Gill

       

I have this ikea dumpster like thing :p it's falling apart but as long as it doesn't collapse, me happy :p

my "old" desk is only a little over a year old, but its really too large for this infinitely tiny place.  once we can build, this one will come out of storage.

my "new" desk is 2' deep by 3' wide, came from the transfer site (reuse section), and hubby is trying to build shelves for me.  good thing is, new desk is short enough for me, too =-D

now, if it would just stop raining so we can get this done....

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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I'm a month or so late on this, but here's my desk. It's door atop some "liberated" milk crates.

This is a music studio, too, but I did away with all external gear other than an interface box and percussion and key controllers (Thank gawd for loops and VST instruments). I don't miss the days of miking drum kits, calibrating tape machines and hand-splicing 1/4" tape.

As a drummer, I tend to program most of my rhythm guitars, but should I get stuck, I'm fortunate to have some good guitarist friends who are willing to e-mail me real tracks. I love the net for  working collaboratively!

That's Princess Magoo under the throne.

Have to agree that Wabe's place owns those of us mere mortals, but we soldier on! *D

Why buy a desk when you can recycle some crates and a door !  If it works for you then it's great!

Looks like you have a comfy chair by the window too.

BTW, I found it amusing that you have a forum page (probably this one) on the screen when you took the photo and with my avatar showing :lol:

Gill

       

I kept thinking that any day now I'll tidy up my main working area, but I didnt. So perhaps I can shame myself into getting on with it :) . Mainly its my place for painting watercolor, but I need the laptop to refer to my poser/Vue creation. I havnt painted for nearly a year so I have now a lot of CG images to refer too, just need to start. I basically took over our basement area, which is a walk-out type, large windows/doors with lots of light. I can see my back garden, a park like green belt area and the Rockies in the background. Not a castle, but I think its almost as fancy as wabe's work space:)

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
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Since the view of the outside is a bit washedout in the previous post, here is what I can see from my window when I paint.

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
http://artpearl.redbubble.com/

...and this is where I actually do most of my Poser/vue/photoshop work. It is just left of my painting area, and supposed to be an extra guest room, but its very comfoie and the coolest (temperature-wise) place in the house, so that's where I am most of the time.

PS - I'm not bragging about the nice place I have, but I'm not apologizing for it either, done my share of living in slams and also done my share of only being able to paint on the dinning table when we dont need it for dining with guest, when the kids dont need it to do their projects, my husband doesnt need it to prepare his lectures...

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
http://artpearl.redbubble.com/

The view from your window is really lovely!  Must be good for the inspiration

Having a place where you can just go and work whenever the mood takes you is a blessing.  I love it for my computer work but I have your old problem when I want to sew - I have to use the dining table as there's no space up here for all my sewing paraphenalia.  Trouble is, the dining table is in our conservatory.  Sometimes very pleasant, but cold in winter and often like an oven in summer

Gill

       

Gillbrooks, you have a good eye. That is indeed this forum page on my monitor. Reading it was what prompted me to take the shot. *D

Artpearl, that is a lovely view from your window.

An update...I now Vue 32 inches at a time:D Now if i can only find that elusive "make art" button:D

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

I wish mine was that big!

Gill

       

HEY! My stupid piccie didnt show up...

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

Puts my 22" to shame :crying:

Gill

       

WOW !! That is one big piece of a monitor :-)
I wonder, is your mouse pointer not often lost somewhere in that amount of space ?

I have a wacom tablet now, but before that, i used a regular mouse and with my dual 20" widescreen monitor setup, i often had to search for the mouse pointer in all that space LOL !

 

Society failed to tolerate me...

... and i have failed to tolerate society

 

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"I wish mine was that big"

Yeah, I hear that all the time:P

Honestly though, I am having issues as of right now. go here if you wanna know why not to buy one:P

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

This is my 3D/ gaming/ web/ music/ etc. etc. creation lair (click for larger image).  It's a bonus room (no closet) that shares the upstairs with another room.  Live in this house all alone.

> Quote - This is my comfy seat of power

Hey Gill, you'd like my chair.  It used to have the same material you see on the back (burlap type stuff).  And the seat pad wore out.  I re-upolstered the seat and arms with ultra-leather.  The seat is tripple padded (never sink down to the wood at 190lbs) and the arms are double padded).  It's pretty comfy!

Hi krickerd,

Looks like you got the same monitors as i do (Samsung SyncMaster 206 BW)
Am i correct ?

 

Society failed to tolerate me...

... and i have failed to tolerate society

 

Quote - > Quote - This is my comfy seat of power

Hey Gill, you'd like my chair.  It used to have the same material you see on the back (burlap type stuff).  And the seat pad wore out.  I re-upolstered the seat and arms with ultra-leather.  The seat is tripple padded (never sink down to the wood at 190lbs) and the arms are double padded).  It's pretty comfy!

You've got a really good dedicated space there !!  You even look like a reposed Bruce Willis in the photo :lol:

Not sure about the chair - sounding very unladylike leather often makes my bum sweat !  :blushing:
Plus I'm more of a floral person as the photos may show - I've yet to see white leather with floral motifs printed on but I'd consider buying some if I saw it - as long as I didn't use it to cover a seat !

Gill

       

Quote - Hi krickerd,

Looks like you got the same monitors as i do (Samsung SyncMaster 206 BW)
Am i correct ?

Close... mine are 906 BW.

Well... its been HOW long since I promised this?  FINALLY!  my desk came inside.  After being rained & snowed on, its still in good condition - gotta love metal ;)

The shelves on the desk fell into my hands at just the right moment, same with the ones between the couch & tv.

THIS is my office/living room.  My throne of power (and i fight for my chair).  yes, that is the fridge to one side of my desk, marking the edge of the kitchen.  The fridge is almost directly opposite the front (only) door.

The images pointing towards the TV were taken in the MIDDLE of my "kitchen", with only slight cropping to remove the trash can from the photo.

I DID blur/block identifying features in photos of my daughter, as well as blurred any writing that was personal or could have a copyright issue (looks under desk at the row of cleaning products & canned air)  tried to anyway ;)

Gill -  i think you would suffer greatly in my house.  If i covered everything that visually disruptive, it would feel extremely closed in.  This is, strangely enough, the most open this trailer has felt since the day we moved in.

as you can see... every inch of space has to count.  Its also a work in progress =D

After i post this message, will post the second pic depicting the "entire living room/entertainment room/office"

if you're claustrophobic....

i wouldnt recommend visiting =D

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and the second one... of my living room LOL.

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WOW, who is the poor soul who's face is burned out of the pic on that wall:P

"Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw."

My daughter - the primary focus of my protectiveness.

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Well, I sort of know what it's like dealing with small living spaces - though ours is just the holiday caravan that belongs to my in-laws.  It's 38' x 12'  but it doesn't house all our stuff - only what we need while we're there and I never toake my laptop with me so no computer stuff either.

Gill

       

*grins...
i finally measured the length of this thing... 32' (inside - give or take a few inches)... and 7 & a half foot wide (inside).  again, give or take a few inches either way for the "STRAIGHT" walls that the landlord remodelled long ago... chuckles

the smallest place i ever lived in was, if i recall correctly, approx. 18' long & 8' wide.  did that for 3 months, but the good thing was, it was in my parents back yard, so could go inside the "big house" during the day - where there was a kitchen, a tv, computers, and most importantly, a working bathroom.

oh wait.  wrong.  it was a very large 8-person tent for a summer when i moved back up here to alaska.  big enough for a futon mattress on the ground and our suitcases. 

grins travel trailers are fun.  as long as you're not living in one permanently and have attempted to shove 50 pounds of (CENSORED) into a 2 and a half pound bag.

thank goodness my main creative outlet is now poser & vue.  i clutter my hard drive, NOT my living space =D  (dont get me wrong... i have several large boxes in here full of craft paints & glues & other crafty things that cant freeze - the rest of my crafty things are in a storage unit until such time as my living space grows.  it will happen.  eventually.)

Meanwhile, i keep finding creative means of storage & downsizing - and i have also learned what a person can actually live without LOL.

and what they can't.

Anyone want some snow?  I got a yard outside with snow almost 2 feet deep.  come & get it & its yours!

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I just made some Vue snow so that'll do me for a while.  We had a bit of snow last month but it didn't stick.    Boring at the moment - usual cold, wet and windy 

Gill

       

I would show my little piece of area I call my own computer networking  but with college collection of paper work and books and other things I'm almost embaressed to show it
Just picture if you will a desktop with scattered paper and some were under it all there is a keyboard and mouse :P

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Currently study in Parapsychology

Mine's not quite as tidy as that first photo I psoted.  Hardly been up here for over a week due to our new arrival (paws not feet) so everything's just getting chucked on here.  Had to clear a space tonight to sign my hubby's anniversary card (20 years tomorrow - blimey!!!)

:b_shocked:

Gill

       

Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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Thank you !  We didin't get chance for a lie-in (hubby has a few days off work) as we were woken by a hungry pup at just after 7am.  

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

:blink:

Gill

       

The view from my window, taken a couple of weeks ago when it was really Autumny. South Wales Valleys

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face. I am a traveler of both time and space ....Kashmir, Led Zeppelin

We don't go to South Wales often enough......lovely scenery there, but our caravan is just on the edge of Snowdonia so we tend to stick to North and Mid.
We have a few places earmarked that we want to go.....maybe next year we'll get round to it !

Gill

       

 OK, here is an other vue place. I just took the picture – as you can see we have a bit of snow!

Very technical looking corner.  The leopardskin cushion does add a little softness

Gill

       

Ah ! It is always a pleasure to see other Mac users :-)

 

Society failed to tolerate me...

... and i have failed to tolerate society

 

@gillbrooks: well, it's more technical because graphic design is my job. If it would be too comfortable I would drink more coffee than to do my work :blushing: At the opposite side of my "office" is my private place and there you can see more of these "wild things" like the leopardskin ...

@strenia: Greetings to your Mac from my Macs "Eddie", "Amanda" and "Deep Thought"

My setup is in my dressing room.  I think even if I had a proper office I'd still have to bring in my flowery cushions and pretty bits.  Can't help it :lol:

Gill

       

 Yes, I can imagine, after I've seen the photo of your setup (nice place). Roses, roses, roses. It's pretty!

Attached Link: gallery of painting and other work

Hi everyone. i usually don't visit the forums, but i decided that i should check it out and maybe get involved with some and this is the one that caught my eye. i'm always fascinated by how other artists work and their spaces...they range from chaotic to nearly pristine and every degree in between. i thought i'd throw my hat in the ring. i'm lucky enough to have a room for a studio, but how organized or chaotic it is depends on the current project/s that i've involved myself in....i took this a couple of minutes ago and didn't clean anything up, so here it stands (or sulks) in it's cluttered glory. (if you notice, i have two chairs close to one another with totally different projects going on....that's so i can quickly move to the one i'm not supposed to be working on in a flash, and work on that one). so, is thread properly named "A Room With A Vue"?

Ah but it looks like organised clutter

Actually, it looks like you've got  a lot of inspirational stuff in there - a very good place to work

Gill

       

"organized clutter"...that's what i was claiming, but it never seems to sound believable... and i'm writing down the phrase "inspirational stuff" for the next time someone suggests that i might get more done if i clean the studio up. but, it is a very good place to work!

I realised looking through this thread, that ive spend too much time at my work.
My studio at home isn't that cozy at all. Tho I live of making images and music I dont have one single bit on my walls. Its very minimalistic.
However here is my 35mm film rig, used it a few times in junction with vue ( tracking footage yada yada ) Its one of the props I got close to me when working, including music gear ~

Cosy doesn't work for everyone. 

I have a complete 'technoban' in our house.  Even the telly is in a cupboard and the doors are only open when it's being watched.    Hi fi is in another cupboard and as the door is glass fronted, I have lace hung up inside to hide what's in there !

Even in the kitchen - I have a flowery curtain hiding the washing m/c and dishwasher !!
:b_unbelievable:

Gill

       

like this?

I like those computer cabinets but 2 drawbacks are not enough legroom to stretch out and I like to lean on my elbows when I'm working - can't really do that on those things.  

The main box is hidden in the cupboard part of my desk, my external drives are covered with dragons, postcards and other paraphenalia.  If I really want to get paranoid I can make a flowery cover to go over the monitor when it's not in use  :lol:

Gill

       

LOL...kind of like having kids, but keeping them in the backroom...especially when guest come over?

A more representative picture of how I Vue... usually, it involves having a cat on my lap, my shoulder, around my feet or on my graphic tablet.

• agiel - www.linfa.net

AWWWWW that's sweet.

Last Friday night we had very strong winds and I ended up cradling our 4month old pup in one arm while trying to Vue on my laptop with the other......

Your cat statue is great !

Gill

       

I got the cat status in an antique store. It is made of metal and weighs a ton. I think it is supposed to be a candle holder of some sort.

The cats look at it and think he is a snob (he never answers them and looks condescending standing on his hind legs like that all the time).

It is nice to have a cat built-in to my desktop - especially to keep my hands warm in winter. The only problem is that the bulk makes drawing on my tablet more difficult :)

• agiel - www.linfa.net

LOL... my cat always wants my slippers :-)

So you have warm hands while i got warm feet :-D

 

Society failed to tolerate me...

... and i have failed to tolerate society

 

Maya likes my slippers too, but she not only sleeps on them, she likes to eat things there too so sometimes I get soggy feet
:b_upset:

Gill

       

Gill... cayenne pepper on slippers, not only helps break puppy chewing, but keeps feet warm ;)

how's the lil scamp doin?  we want an updated piccie!!! =D

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Oh, she doesn't chew them....just takes her doggie treats on to them to eat - especially those rawhide chews that go really sticky and soggy after a while !!

I'll take a piccie on Christmas morning when she's 'opening' her presents

Gill

       

This was Maya's favourite present (off my mom).  She's spent many hours since Christmas morning with this. Only MY dog could be so pleased with a string of plastic sausages with silly faces !! Sorry, chopped her head off with this shot - I zoomed too much !

Gill

       

she's grown sooo much!  awww, what a beauty she is!

our rajiah-puppy loves to chew on smelly socks, so it could be worse than the silly plastic sausages ;) 

We took her to "sled dog training camp" late last winter (back to the Mackey's where she came from for a few weeks for him to evaluate her and see if he wants to potentially use her in his team - he does!)... she was sooo happy to see us when we came and picked her up a few weeks later... she crawled into the back seat of the car we had just picked up that day (old one died during all this LOL), layed her head between the front seats and proceeded to drool the entire way back home.  Behaved?  very well behaved... but my cup holder was FULL of DROOL.  EWWW.

(yes, i cleaned it out... ignoring hubby's statement of "just let it stay there, it'll evaporate eventually"  UGGG)

it's difficult to photograph pets...  once they know what you're doing, they either vanish, or get right in your face going "whatcha doin?  whats that?  can i lick it?  can i eat it?"

awww... give maya a big ol hug and rubbin from me =D

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Xmas day we took her to my brothers house as that's where all the family were.  My nephew and niece were there with their 2 dogs.  Both labs.  Maya has met Jessica a few times - she's only a couple of months older than ours.  She met Muttley for the first time.  He's now 12 months old and like a sumo wrestler!    He was being held by my nephew but straining to get at Maya.

Little miss butter wouldn't melt just kept eyeballing him - daring him to come over. 
:sneaky:

Gill

       

Quote - ...or where?  Is it a chaotic corner or are you lucky enough to have your own space

Here's my place of creation that I share with some of my dragons.  The other side of the room doubles as my dressing room :lol:

I love that cute wooden desk - especially those small drawers!

I think that this is just the most "cutest" topic and I love seeing everyone else's computer spaces!

I know I have a picture of my own computer space already on my computer (was sending it to my brother so that we could compare our "clutter") but wouldn't you know I can't find it!  If I can't find it soon then I'll just have to take another picture and post it here!

Quote - At some point, i vow to strive to pull myself away from outdoors... and when im not there, im vueing...

anyways, and take a pic.

think i need to clean.

oh and i envy you right now, Gill.  a room to yourself.  oooooooooo.  i am currently in a 7 and a half foot wide by 32 foot long mobile "home".  The only door leads to outside and the outhouse.  you'd hate my house.  neatniks always do. =D  things tend to be clean - but not tidy or neat.  its really hard to here

i gave up a lot to live my dream in alaska, but even though i miss it, i wouldnt trade it for anything...

and i agree, agiel - once you go dual....

wow.

i have managed to drag vue (and poser) onto my second screen, as well as componants of them (animation pallet in vue, various popout windows in both), AND make vue stretch across both (i quickly had to stop that - it made me nausiated) - now, the programs stick to screen 1 - and chat, email, etc on second screen.

how did i ever live without this?  wow.
~meli

Guess I should say that I'm living in a standard sized house - 3 bedrooms - one for the computer which is part computer room and part cat's room! -LOL!

My mother passed away in 2006 and left me the house and it is just so full of memories that I haven't changed a thing yet!

Quote - > Quote - ...or where?  Is it a chaotic corner or are you lucky enough to have your own space

Here's my place of creation that I share with some of my dragons.  The other side of the room doubles as my dressing room :lol:

I love that cute wooden desk - especially those small drawers!

I think that this is just the most "cutest" topic and I love seeing everyone else's computer spaces!

I know I have a picture of my own computer space already on my computer (was sending it to my brother so that we could compare our "clutter") but wouldn't you know I can't find it!  If I can't find it soon then I'll just have to take another picture and post it here!

The desk isn't quite so tidy today as I've been updating one of my older store items so I've been ignoring the 'tidying up' part !

The little drawers on the top are part of the removable monitor stand - I changed the boring wooden knobs for the pretty floral china ones. 

I didn't intend the desk to stay that orangey 'antique pine' - I was going to paint it white and stencil flowers on it but I'm never off the computer long enough to do it!!

Love to see your photo if you find it

Gill