Wacom Boy

What’s up docs?

This is my little space where I draw all the funny stuff that you find in our Newsletters. I like to draw in Photoshop with my preciousssss, the Wacom Intuos Tablet.

Today I’ve finished drawing a new comic strip that will appear soon in the Fifth Newsletter.

So... stay tuned!!

***SPOILER ALERT*** (((Up!)))

Luis

How Wide is Your Angle?

Dear Followers... who says we can't do two things at once?

Today Jon was having lunch while interviewing the Decathletes for a video. At that same moment, he was also setting up a Twitter account, while taking outside shots of the School of Architecture. David was keeping him company along the way, except for that lunch part. Everything is going according to plan, and on Monday we will finish the interviews and start working on the graphics and art design.

It is interesting how much people change when in front of (or behind) a camera...

Lumus Maxima

The lighting team (Jordi & Victor) don't stop. We paid one of our last visits of the year to Philips today, as we are getting ready to program the lighting protocol for the automatic control system.

Today's acquisitions included a 7W LED bulb for our workstation lamp and 3 LED candles.

The 7W LED bulb caught my attention from the beginning. Its lumen flow is equivalent to that of a 40W tungsten bulb and it doesn't get hot. It also has a life of 45000 hours (45 times that of a common bulb!) and it still projects warm white light (3100K). And here's the best thing: when you buy it, it's already set to replace any ordinary bulb (unscrew the old one, screw in your new MasterLED). The only thing I am not happy about is that it is a bit heavy for its size. Still, I am simply amazed at how easy it can be to start saving energy. It's all about the small changes you make...

TeamSPAIN

Today's Interview

Today "La aventura del Saber," also known as "The Adventure of Knowledge," a very important program broadcasted on "La 2" and "TVE international" (two international broadcasting channels from Spain), is filming a special report about the Solar Decathlon 2009 and the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010.

The interview and the report will be shown sometime in September of 2009! We'll keep you posted.

TeamSPAIN

Tools, Tools, Tools...

Hello Everybody,

Today, Jordi and Katja bought a lot of tools and equipment for the House's construction site. Hammers, screwdrivers, generators, safety equipment, scaffolding, cleaning material, etc.

WE ARE READY TO ASSEMBLE OUR HOUSE NEXT WEEK

We'll see you next week on site!

TeamSPAIN

Lights, Camera... Action!

Yep! We are preparing another video, making it the third that we are currently working on.

This time we are filming a "B&W House Video Presentation." In this video, we will introduce you to our big bosses from the University and to members of the Spanish government, and all the members of TeamSPAIN will introduce you to the features of The B&W House. The goal is to make this video be something that we can show on the Internet, on TV, and at the Mall in Washington, too!

We have just finished writing the script, and we will start filming tomorrow. Some of our team members are feeling a little nervous about getting in front of the camera, but they are brave people and we are confident they will do a good job ;-)

In the meantime, there is a conference being held at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid, at which the Vice-Chancellor of our University will be introducing The Solar Decathlon competition. A group of decathletes will also be visiting the construction site of our House pretty much every day, in order to make sure that everything is running smoothly there.

Lots of action is happening here… not bad at all!

Newsletter Issue Number 4

Hello Everyone!

We have just released our Fourth Newsletter, filled with articles about SIMA, our presentation in Rivas, information about our sponsors, a brand new comic strip, and much more! We are already working on the next issue, but you can enjoy this one in the meantime.

TeamSPAIN