Between the Lines

Events in June

I will be presenting at the following fine Autodesk partner events in June. I am pretty much heads down working on the presentation along with normal work. I will be covering Autodesk technology and innovation from the 15-20,000 foot level. I will be talking about and showing things you may have not seen publicly as well a personal invitation and challenge to help shape the future products and technologies.

•  PowerLaunch by ProSoft on June 6th, 2013
  Salt Lake City Utah.
• Design Vision and Innovation Conference by CAD-1 June 14th, 2013
  Denver Colorado

I hope to see you at one of the events.
-Shaan

Autodesk Design Night Event "Making It!"

Join the next Autodesk Design Night event "Making It!". Tuesday evening May 2, 2013  located in the amazing Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. Past Design Nights have been huge hits and the tickets sell out.

Meet the Maker in You

It’s a brave new world, and everything is changing. The oily machines of manufacturing are being joined by squeaky-clean computers, 3D printers, and digital fabrication services. Creativity is rampant and people (like you and me) are saying “see ya” to mass-produced, no individuality goods. Turns out, making exactly what you want is something anyone can do. And maker types obviously learned their kindergarten lessons because they love to share. That means one idea spawns hundreds more and innovation is running amok.

So make your way over to Design Night and: 

• Hear a talk from Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop 
• Make your own creature (don’t worry, we’ll leave the lights on)
• Build a birdhouse (bird not included)
• Eat! Drink! Make! Learn!

Get Your Tickets Now
http://designnight_maker.eventbrite.com/

Special Autodesk Live Events and You Are Invited

Please join us for the special live events on Facebook, LiveStream, and the Autodesk Area.

http://autode.sk/webcast, http://autode.sk/webcast_ls and http://area.autodesk.com/2014unfold

“It is often the arrival of a new tool that opens our minds to new opportunities we would have never imagined before. New tools not only make it possible to do new things, they also expand our vision of what could be. We will soon be announcing our 2014 portfolio of tools for design, engineering and entertainment and we invite you to join us for a special webcast on March 26, 2013 at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern, 3pm UK and 4pm Europe to learn more and see the impact that Autodesk software is having across the industries we serve.”

- The Role of Tools in Design blog post

Also check out the 2 day celebration with the Unfold event featuring Autodesk’s 2014 Animation Software tools.
http://area.autodesk.com/2014unfold

Kairos Society Summit & Some 3Doodling

Last Friday and Saturday Autodesk participated as a sponsor in the Kairos Society Summit in New York City. The Kairos Society is a non-profit organization founded to foster innovation and entrepreneurship by students.

“Founded in 2008, the Kairos Society is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in the United States. We work to find and empower the young pioneers who will push the world forward through entrepreneurship and innovation - we do so with the support of the top universities, mentors, and corporations across the globe. At the Kairos Society, we view today’s global problems as opportunities for entrepreneurs to focus on the meaningful businesses and innovations that will radically change the world for the better. Not only for our generation, but for the generations to come.”

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski were at the event as were about 6 Autodesk employees including myself presenting on the subjects of 3D design and 3D Printing. Many of our 3D printing friends like Stratasys and Shapeways were also at the event.

 

During our panel session on 3D Printing where we spoke of Autodesk role in developing software and technologies used in design and also supporting 3D printing. We covered a great deal of ground in a short amount of time to 350 students broken up into 3 groups. I absolutely love discussing technology with students as they come up with the greatest questions and ideas since they don’t know the boundaries or set in their ways. During the session I brought up the hot topic of the 3D Printing pen “3Doodler” on Kickstarter that was trying to raise $30,000 and are now OVER 1.8 million dollars and causing a buzz all over in social media and even among researchers in the 3D printing space. In fact there was a long email thread I was involved in the evening before the Kairos event discussing what it really was and if it was really 3D printing, or really a free form 3D sketching tool. When I brought up the 3Doodler topic a gentlemen in the back of the session pointed to himself and so I asked what he wanted to add to the discussion, it was none other than the co-founder of WobbleWorks and the 3Doodler pen Maxwell Bogue.
3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen

 

On Saturday we were invited to participate in the launching of the Kairos 50 on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. What a surreal and interesting venue where many of the startups in the Kairos 50 were presenting their projects.We were all dressed up in suits and I even had a tie on.

I also met Anybot a virtual presence robot that allows people to attend remote locations even attend meetings while away over the Internet.  One cool thing was the ability to attach a mobile device running Google Hangouts and that could then be used to allow people to join a Hangout session and experience an event or place remotely. Would love to have some of these at AU.

Cheers,
Shaan

[acronym] Magazine Public Sector CAD Awards

It was a great time participating as a judge in this weeks event hosted by [acronym] Magazine Public Sector CAD Awards. Hundreds attended to see the presentations by Lynn Allen and others.

Congratulations to the Winners

State and Local Government Category:

Mickel Edwards of the Iowa Department of Corrections

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Government and Contractors Category:

Suresh Neepala of Lockheed Martin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you acronym for all the hard work you did in putting on the event and for inviting me as a judge. Thank you for all the sponsors, winners, finalist, and attendees.

Cheers,
Shaan

Learn to Design for 3D Printing in NYC

If you are in New York City next week you can get a free introduction on how to design for 3D printing with Duann Scott of Shapeways. Learn from the veteran 3D printing Jedi master Duann on how to design and prepare for the materials for the 3D printing process to get the best results for your design and most economically as wasted materials is wasted money with 3D printing. Duann will be using Autodesk’s free and easy 123D Design.

Since it is February 14th aka Valentines Day, feel free to exercise your geeky Maker side by bringing a date and learn how to print your 3D designed valentine heart. If you scare your date away, perhaps it was for the best, and you will be left with more free time and able to concentrate on mastering digital fabrication nirvana.

Sign Up Here

Mother Nature Celebrity Designer

While Mother Nature has been busy piling up snow and today shutting down Salt Lake City including the major airport with freezing rain and causing my power to go out, she is also a very talented designer. Just look around you at what Mother Nature has designed from terrain, plants, animals and more. We can use bio mimicry for radical designs inspired by nature.

Consider joining us at the beautiful Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco for Design Night Thursday February 7th 2013. Tickets and more information is available at: http://autode.sk/nature

Autodesk Gallery at One Market Street in San Francisco is open free to the public. See the Gallery and the exhibits every Wednesday. http://www.autodesk.com/thegallery

Autodesk Gallery at One Market

One Market, Floor 2
San Francisco, CA 94105
map

2nd annual [acronym] Magazine Public Sector CAD Awards

Join me at a virtual event that honors and explores the best in government digital design projects. I was one of the judges on the panel. While I can’t reveal my top picks, but I can say there were some really amazing designs and projects. Register to see the winner and hear about their project.

The 2nd annual [acronym] Magazine Public Sector CAD Awards and Expo takes place on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, from 10.00 AM – 3:00 PM ET. Winners announced at 1:30 PM ET.

• Meet the Winners – Celebrate and learn from their achievements
• Attend Free Online seminars – Learn about the latest advancements in digital design technology
• Enjoy – An exciting keynote from Autodesk’s, Lynn Allen featuring “60 AutoCAD Tips in 60 Minutes

Register today at: http://acronymonline.org/acronym-magazine-cad-awards-virtual-expo/

Final Countdown and Preparation for Autodesk University 2012

This week is the last week before Autodesk University. Thousands are heading for Las Vegas in the next few days and we will be ready for them with great speakers, classes, technology, Innovation forums, vendors, AUGI Annual meeting, entertainment and more.

In this final week before AU, I am head down for my sessions and events by trying to avoid email to prevent distraction. In addition to the last week push and cramming, it is a short week in the U.S. with the Thanksgiving holiday.

I will begin my annual AU live blogging & Twitter updates next Sunday complete with photos as attendees begin to arrive and some of the behind the scenes as Autodesk University is being setup. Then as AU starts there will be daily updates, highlights, and photos as I attempt to go without sleep and cover as much of the event as humanly possible.

If this is your first AU, definitely make sure to attend the AU Freshman Orientation Monday, November 26, 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m and also learn about those of us that are AU Mentors to help you make the most of the AU experience. This is my 15th year of Autodesk University events, and the number 22 I have attended and presented at if my AU counting is right as there were multiple AUs in some years and some overseas.

Each AU event is unique and I can’t wait to experience AU 2012, and then directly afterwards get some well needed rest and recovery.

Hope to see you at AU!

Cheers,
Shaan

52 Days Until Autodesk University 2012

The days remaining are counting down fast until Autodesk University 2012. The time remaining for an early registration discount of $500 is going even faster with only 10 days remaining to the October 15th deadline.

Join the thousands seeking more knowledge of Autodesk products from some of the best in the industry in a fun networking environment that runs 24 hours a day if you don’t sleep. Nowhere else in the world will you find this large and diverse of Autodesk product experts, the latest technology, and solutions in one place, so please come join us to Learn, Connect, and Explore at Autodesk University 2012 in Las Vegas.

Cheers,
Shaan

Have Webcam - Will Travel by Internet to Your User Group Meeting

I always enjoy attending user groups and do whenever I am in a town having one. Since I cannot really travel to all user groups, and receive numerous requests to speak and attend in all corners of the globe, I felt this would be one way to attend and participate user groups and customer training sessions almost anywhere. I am expanding the number of my Autodesk presentations without the added expenses of travel, living on planes (in the Hurley seat) and those frustrating airports part. I will begin offering web based meetings to user groups and company teams.

Sweet Autodesk Post & VFX Eye Candy Friday

I always love the Autodesk Media and Entertainment customer show reels as they are full of pixel popping eye candy.

Here is the just released IBC 2012 Post & VFX Show Reel featuring visual effect and post production editing in Autodesk products by real Autodesk customers.
http://youtu.be/b1Y4Q7LLt64

cgchannel.com covered this show reel at http://bit.ly/USVT5p 

Also check out the Autodesk Smoke 2013 at IBC 2012 http://youtu.be/L1dkxFTHZKw

[acronym] Magazine CAD Awards as a Judge

I am honored to be selected as a judge this year for the [acronym] Online CAD Awards along with a panel comprised of a cross-section of industry, technology, and government professionals.

Judges:

• Tom Trezza Jr, President, Trezza Media Group

• Shaan Hurley (me), Technologist for the Office of the CTO, Autodesk, Inc..

• Brian Skripac, Director of Digital Practice, Astorino

• Scott Eden, Vice President, CADD Microsystems

• Joe Eichenseer, Building Solutions Division Manager, IMAGINiT Technologies

Read more about the judges:
http://acronymonline.org/judges/

We will be judging all submissions that show how a particular digital design application has made an impact on the government community. Conciseness and clarity are essential. Be sure to state clear objectives and share specific quantifiable results.

[acronym] Online CAD Awards
http://acronymonline.org/cad-awards/

[acronym] Online CAD Awards is an innovation contest that challenges the public sector, and the contractors that support it, to share the creative ways they have used digital design/CAD software to improve the performance of their agency and enhance the delivery of citizen-centric services.

Whether you work with computer-aided design (CAD) software, Building Information Modeling (BIM), or other engineering and design tools, we want to hear about your achievements:

• How has digital design changed the business of government in your city, county or agency?
• Have you put new ideas into practice?
• Has design software helped your agency save time and money?
• Has digital design transformed how you collaborate with team members and stakeholders?

Winners will be announced and recognized at an exciting virtual event in January 2013 featuring a keynote seminar from Lynn Allen, and others.

Submit Your Nomination Today:
Contest Entry Form, Click Here

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2012. All digital design and CAD software applications will be accepted.

Cheers,
Shaan

CAD Americas Training Days in Several Cities This Fall

Learn from the Industry's Best and Brightest

Paul Aubin Revit Expert More	Rick Ellis Civil 3D Expert More	Robert Green CAD Mgmt. Expert More	Steve Schain AutoCAD Expert More	Tod Stephens Revit Expert More

And many more!

CAD Americas Training Days is coming this Fall to several cities and hopefully one near you.

Autodesk is pleased to sponsor CAD Americas Training Days, an opportunity to work face-to-face with industry experts to build your Autodesk product skills.

9/06 – Seattle, WA
9/07 – Los Angeles, CA
9/11 – San Francisco, CA
9/13 – Phoenix, AZ
9/18 – Minneapolis, MN
9/20 – Denver, CO
9/25 – Boston, MA
9/26 – New York / NJ
9/28 – Rochester, NY
10/02 – Indianapolis, IN
10/03 – Chicago, IL
10/04 – St. Louis, MO
10/10 – Houston, TX
10/11 – Dallas, TX
10/16 – Charlotte, NC
10/17 – Washington, D.C.
10/18 – Pittsburgh, PA
10/23 – Tampa, FL
10/25 – Toronto
 

REGISTER FOR CAD AMERICAS TRAINING TODAY

Send Autodesk to SXSW

For those that are not aware of SXSW otherwise known as South by Southwest, this is a one big art, music, films, and emerging technology party, I mean event to dazzle all your senses and stimulate your mind. It is held in the awesomely unique Austin Texas.

The SXSW Panel Picker opened and Autodesk has submitted. selected to be accepted and at SXSW they need to be voted on by the community (that’s you).

Voting is open until August 31 and accounts for 30% in deciding SXSW programming. The SXSW Advisory Board (a group of industry experts from around the world) accounts for 40%, and the SXSW staff makes up the remaining 30%.

Please create an account and place your vote to have this great Autodesk panel lineup present at SXSW in March 2013!

Autodesk Submitted Panels:

Innovation Genome Project: Secret of Innovation

Bill O’Connor – One of the greatest writers and speakers Autodesk has, especially on innovation. I am not just saying that because I am a colleague and in the same CTO office, I really mean it. He is practically our executive staff go to guy on writing and assisting on speeches. He is also one of the funniest ad-lib guys around and way to fast and clever on the comebacks, and even does impersonations. Give Bill a hard time for me on Twitter at @OConnorAutodesk or better yet just follow what he is working on.

Use Your Idea to Shake Things Up at Your Company

Chris Cheung - You know only one of two people to be on the Apple iPad 3 launch event stage with a new Autodesk application SketchBook Ink.

How to Turn Your Hobby Into A Full-Time Job

Eric Wilhelm – Master of Instructables.com, the one place to learn how to make anything from Skittles Vodka to a robot.

New Opportunities for Hardware Innovators

David Lang, OpenROV; Mark Hatch, TechShop; Jesse Harrington, Autodesk – These guys are Makers, nothing more to be said except they make and help others build cool sh,t!

I am not going to beg, but please consider registering to vote and selecting the Autodesk panels thumbs up vote.

Cheers,
Shaan

Busy Week and Another Shoulder Surgery

The week started out in San Francisco with  some meetings then accompanying Dr. Louise Leakey of the Turkana Basin Institute and AfricanFossils.org speaking at Singularity University at the NASA Ames facility. I met many of the brightest young minds looking to change the lives of a billion people, as well as Ray Kurzweil and many other Silicon Valley icons including Autodesk’s own Jonathan Knowles.

Early today I head for the airport to Salt Lake City and another shoulder surgery in the morning, this time my left shoulder after having the right shoulder worked on in June.

 Then I am taking some well needed personal time off.

Cheers,
Shaan

Flying the Autodesk Octo-Copter in a very very very remote region of East Africa.

 

If you go to the middle of nowhere in East Africa, go North, and turn right, then drive another couple hours in the blazing heat, you will be where I am. Gonzalo Martinez and myself of Autodesk are capturing some of the most remote geography in Africa using a remote controlled eight bladed Octo-Copter. The photos and video are amazing as are the reaction from local nomadic tribe members when they see the copter fly by and they run to the river to see it and wonder what it is. It was an interesting language barrier experience to try to explain what it was, and what it does and that we can actually see like a bird from the copter. I am pretty sure they are convinced I am some sort of space alien. The Autodesk Octo-Copter is doing very well but heat and rough transport did cause a great deal of extra effort in repairs and adjustments and no way to get to a location to get repair parts as we had to solve the problems right here in the first field site.

 

Dealing with overheating equipment, tons of bugs of all shapes and sizes including malaria carrying mosquitos, absolutely amazing bird life, venomous scorpions and snakes like the small cobra found yesterday, sand, lack of much if any Internet access or a cell phone signal and only ~106 F. degrees and some humidity. Not getting much sleep with all the travel, work and heat. Living off the grid with solar energy and rain water. And Yes, I am loving it!

Now we have another sunset flight to prepare for as being located on the equator the sunset goes so very fast and the flood of bugs soon. The bugs can be so this it is raining bugs and your computer screen becomes unusable as it is quickly covered in bugs. 

Cheers,
Shaan

PS:
Was just told by my boss that Autodesk has a company policy to cover a single hump camel as transportation, not a double hump camel as I would have to cover the extra hump charge model..

Big Apple Event

I am in New York City for a Autodesk 123D maker and personal fabrication special media event. Autodesk CEO, Carl Bass along with Samir Hanna, VP of Consumer Products will be hosting the event. I will be providing information about the exciting announcements in real-time updates from the event using my Twitter account @ShaanHurley and later summarize on this blog.

One cannot help but think of the Frank Sinatra song New York New York and the words “if I can can Make it here, I can Make it anywhere” and how fitting that is.

Check out the Autodesk 123D free apps and Go Make Something!

Cheers,
Shaan

Utah's FIRST Robotics 2012 Competition

This past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday several high school student teams from around the Western United States converged on Salt Lake City Utah and competed in the Utah's FIRST Robotics Competition regional competition.

Over 40 teams started designing in January for the Rebound Rumble challenge which involved several challenges where the robots must autonomously make some basketball baskets shots and then the wireless controlled manual portion gathering the balls and shooting them for points as well as some obstacles and cooperation challenges where one robot helps another over an obstacle. In between the events there is fun trivia and entertainment like music and dancing to keep the crowds energy going.

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by Inventor and Engineer Dean Kamen in 1989 with the vision:
"To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders."

I was fortunate enough to attend on Friday and Saturday and meet many of the teams. Autodesk is a proud supporter and sponsor of FIRST Robotics and provides software and support for the teams in the Autodesk Education Community’s FRC Program.

Students interested in engineering + robots + music = AWESOME

Here are some photos I took with my phone.

Regional Winners

• Team 2403 Team Plasma of Mesa Arizona. The team used Autodesk Inventor to wow those in attendance with their rotating 3D model on their laptop in their booth. The team was also a regional winner in the competition with their robot. This robot would be a welcome addition to any NBA team with its ball gathering and shooting skills.
• Team 3230 Protoypex from Salt Lake City Utah
• Team 3254 The Ravens

Engineering Inspiration Award

• Team 2486 CocoNuts

FIRST Dean’s List Finalist Award

• Caitlin Vitale-Sullivan of Team 1569
• TJ Houze of Team 4348

Regional Chairman's Award

• Team 3456 LiveWire of Pocatello Idaho (3 high schools, 4 coaches, 5 thousand hours, 6 weeks of building) – (This was an amazing and energetic team!!!)

The FIRST Finals 2012 will be in St. Louis April 25-28, 2012 and live streamed by NASA webcast.

It was a great and entertaining event seeing all the different ideas in the designs and everyone so pumped up.  In speaking to several of the teams it was clear that more mentors are needed. I was asked and by at least 4 teams for the 2013 competition season and looking forward to it. It was nice to see a real mix of boys and girls as both should be active and involved as math, science, and engineering is indeed cool and fun. I would strongly recommend you go to a regional or finals event if you live near a location one is being held or better yet get involved or support a local team. To learn more checkout http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ and for younger children checkout the FIRST LEGO League.

It is all our responsibility to get our youth to get involved in math science and engineering.

Congratulations to everyone who participated, volunteered, sponsored, mentored, and the students that participated in this competition.

Cheers,
Shaan

TED 2012 - Master Class “RIP It MOD It FAB It”

Re-imagining Design and Manufacturing in the future

Tatjana Dzambazova, Technology Whisperer, Maker Extraordinaire, and Autodesk Sr. Product Manager hosted two live Master Class sessions at TED 2012 Monday this week titled “RIP MOD FAB Re-imagining Design and Manufacturing in the future. 

Tatjana’s preview video of the TED 2012 workshop: http://youtu.be/rrtysl-lcyc

The class flow was a 30 minute lecture with live demonstrations and then followed by a conversation and workshop. Tatjana covered three areas (RIP MOD FAB)  from urban level down all the way down to the nano level. She covered the available technologies, convergences, and use cases.

  

 

RIP It
From analog to digital: Using Reality Capture technologies like laser scanning and photogrammetry using Autodesk 123D Catch down to micro sensors and DNA sequencing.

Examples: digital historic preservation, education and access to scientific research such as paleontologist Louise Leakey captured important hominid and fauna fossils to 3D digital models for everyone to explore on AfricanFossils.org, real live measurement of energy performance of buildings, or just for fun.

MOD It
Modifying of digitized data (analysis, simulation) and the revolution that infinite computing brings.

FAB It
From digital back to analog: Discussed various democratized fabrication methods, laser cutting and 3d printing and the power it brings to anyone creative to participate in the creation of the world around us.

Examples: Laser cutting designs and prototypes for work, education, art or for fun. 3D printing objects, food, homes, bio printing and DNA printing, art, or just for fun.

Workshop material: Introduced Autodesk 123D Make that takes any 3D digital model and produces a vector, laser cut pattern that can construct that 3D model out of flat parts.

 

Attendees were then gathered around the machines such as the MakerBot, FARO Laser Scanner, NEXTEngine scanner, Epilog laser cutter where they received instructions about the machines, as well as instructions about the provided assembly kits that they grabbed to take and make themselves after TED.

Some of the kits

         

Attendees also received a Headphone Wrap creation by post grad student Alex Wall sponsored by Ponoko .

 

Check out the free Autodesk 123D Apps that support key parts of the personal fabrication / maker movement.

Autodesk at TED 2012 - IDEAS Cage Matches

Autodesk has an action packed week at TED 2012 and today there is the Social Space with all the great exhibits as well as the much anticipated IDEAS Cage Match tonight where cerebral heavyweights will be pitted against each other for a battle of opposing ideas in four top card matches.

Master of ceremonies Jonathan Knowles @jonathanknowles will guide you through the evening and Autodesk fellow Tom Wujec will be the daring referee in the middle of the ring between the opponents armed only with his witty banter. The goal of this fun event is to experience the passionate opinions from both sides of the issues.

Having personally attended an IDEAS Cage Match event at Autodesk University 2011 I can tell you it is an experience that will surely delight both sides of your brain. No PowerPoint, no podium, no crying uncle, just the ring with you and your opponents ideas to win over the crowd.

Are you ready for the Grey Matter Smackdown?

Autodesk at TED 2012 in Pictures

Autodesk is a sponsor at this years TED 2012 event happening this week in Long Beach California. We are posting our photos from the event on Flickr.

Two Streams

• Autodesk TED 2012 Flickr Stream
• Jonathan Knowles Flickr Stream

Some photo highlights:

  

   

Louise Leakey paleontologist with Autodesk’s Jonathan Knowles and a cardboard hominid skull reproduction created using Autodesk’s 123D Catch and Autodesk 123D Make.

 

Carter Emmart, a former TED speaker showing technology in our gallery that allows people to visualize the entire cosmos.

Peter Diamandis - TED Speaker and author of the bestselling book "Abundance".

Autodesk’s Jonathan Knowles making plans and disrupting with TEDMED founder Marc Hodosh, Bob Weiss from the X Prize Foundation, Peter "Rocket Man" Diamandis, and all around smart guy Dean Kamen at TED 2012 in Long Beach.

Autodesk’s Tatjana Dzambazova shown with some creations here held a Master Class titled “RIP MOD FAB - Re-imagining Design and Manufacturing in the future which I will cover in a future blog post.

Please enjoy more photos in our TED 2012 Stream

TED 2012

One of the most influential events in technology starts tomorrow Tuesday February 28th but there are some social spaces and workshops being held today. The TED 2012 conference founded in 1984 stands for Technology Entertainment and Design and the goal is to spread ideas worth spreading. Autodesk is committed to all three of the focuses of TED and will have several events during TED this year as well as being a TED sponsor.

Autodesk at TED: Social Space and Master Classes

Autodesk will also be holding more IDEAS Cage Fights Wednesday Night for TED attendees just like we have at the IDEAS Innovation + Design Series and recently Autodesk University. They are a great way to see opposing sides debate serious topics in a fun atmosphere.

TED presentations are published free throughout the year and if you ever thought about learning something deeply from a passionate visionary or wanted to learn to be a top level speaker, this is the right spot. You can watch previously recorded presentations on the web or your mobile devices and I would encourage you to check it out. Check it out at http://www.ted.com/ “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.”

Stay tuned for more TED related news on this blog as well as many other Autodesk blogs like Scott’s Its Alive in the Lab blog.

Shaan

Shutterbug 2011 & the Photo Stream at AU 2011

This annual fun event will be held on the Friday and Saturday following Autodesk University 2011. The event will be for photographers and sightseers to get outside the casinos and into the fresh air and sunshine to photograph the beautiful Southern Nevada landscapes and the unique Las Vegas people and sites.

Locations on Google Map:
http://g.co/maps/77vgy

Friday

• Welcome To Las Vegas sign (early 7am)
• Tule Springs Paleontology site & Tule Springs Ranch at Floyd Lamb State Park
• Zoological-Botanical Park
• Las Vegas Strip street photography From New York New York
• Fountain to Bellagio
• Lunch
• The Botanical Gardens at Bellagio
• Top of the Palms garage
• Fremont Street
• Mirage Volcano were we will throw an AU first time attendee into the volcano as an AU virgin sacrifice.
• Fountains of Bellagio
• More Las Vegas Strip street photography Bellagio North
• Dinner

Saturday

Pack a lunch

• Red Rock Canyon http://www.desertusa.com/redrock/
• Hoover Dam & Lake Mead
• Valley of Fire State park http://www.desertusa.com/nvval/
• Lunch in the beautiful Valley of Fire.

On both Friday & Saturday we will hold some Project Photofly shooting workshops so you can learn how to turn your photos into 3D models for free.  Imagine having that “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign in 3D or perhaps that odd statue, desert rock, or capture some of the weirdest people on the street as 3D head model.

You will be responsible for getting to the locations as we will not be managing carpool rides this year but you can offer seats or ask for a rideshare of other attendees. You will also be responsible for your meals.

To attend the Shutterbug event: sign up at http://bit.ly/rkDezI

I have a AU 2011 Photostream group up and ready for the fun to begin. When AU starts photos can be shared to that group. Flickr is free and a great way to share photos.
Autodesk University 2011 Photostream http://www.flickr.com/groups/au2011/

Past Autodesk University photos and Shutterbugs.

• Autodesk University 2010 Photostream
• Autodesk University 2009 Photostream
• Autodesk University 2008 Shutterbug Tour Photos
• Autodesk University 2008 Photostream
• Autodesk University 2007 Photostream
• My AU photos back to 1998 AU History in Photos

Hope to see you at AU!
Shaan

AUGI CAD Camps Seattle and Minneapolis

I will be speaking at the Seattle and Minneapolis AUGI CAD Camps the next two weeks. I will be the lunch entertainment showing some sweet Autodesk technology desserts.

In the presentation we will take a sneak peek into the some Autodesk technologies from Autodesk Labs. See where Autodesk's technology might be going and how you can get involved.

Seattle Washington - Tuesday, October 11
Minneapolis Minnesota - Tuesday, October 18

You can find information and register for these and other AUGI CAD Camp events at the CAD Camp website http://www.augicadcamp.com/ You get a discount for being an AUGI member, and the membership is free and the benefits are invaluable.

Hope to meet you there,
Shaan