date: Mon Oct 30 18:18:55 2000 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: pics to: Steve Caplin Steve, Looking promising. Here a few suggestions: Clean Picture: - some birds need adding - the wind turbines need updating - the structures shown are very 1970s. We will send you some more 1990s pictures and web site - the turbines should be on the upslope of the hills behind the house - you could install some offshore wind turbines in the mid-ocean distance to replace the oil platform - the house should have some local water collection facility - pipes and water butt - the fences along the road should be replaced with hedgerow - transport should be a small biogas (green) 20 seater minibus and/or bike/motorbike - the house could have a glass atrium/conservatory to allow for passive solar heating (as well as the active solar panels you have) - could one of the fields be growing the tall grasses in one of the pictures I sent (this provides raw material for biofuels). Dirty Picture - no suggestions Might it be an idea to have a text label above each image that says: Dirty Picture: "The Future ....?" Clean Picture: "Or the Future .... ?" This should change with the animation. I prefer to think of both of these as future images presenting choices to us. The Dirty Picture may be rather too dramatic to represent now. Mike At 16:24 30/10/00 +0000, you wrote: Mike, Here's what I've been working on - the animation will come later. Let me know if I've got the right kind of elements here, and if there's anything you want added or taken away (in either pic). Steve -- Online portfolio at: [1]http://www.stevecaplin.com Tel: 020 7485 9290 Fax: 020 7267 9843 ISDN: 020 7267 6388