Optimal angle for monitor viewing?

[frederic]

Pretty cool stuff Brz... very cool.

Its too bad companies don't sell those mounts seperately to incorporate into our own furniture. But it looks easy to make... glad I have a plasma cutter :-D

 

[punkin]

Pretty cool stuff Brz... very cool.

Its too bad companies don't sell those mounts seperately to incorporate into our own furniture. But it looks easy to make... glad I have a plasma cutter :-D

Why doesn't that surpise me ?

 

[thane1200]

Thane <====== jealous!

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Take a freakin' chill-pill or something. I think you're overdoing it on the coffee too...

You need a reality check yourself.

never took ADA guidelines literally - only used them as a starting point.

Starting point? How much common sense does it take to place a fucking monitor where you can look at the damn thing where you want to. Fuck. You have a field of vison for your monitor that covers roughly 6 feet high by 3' in front of you. Now, where you going to place it hmmmm? At your feet? Above your head? Do you REALLY even need a .......good god...starting point? I guess some people even need an instruction manual for a fork.

Rule #1 in design

This years brilliant design is next years memory inventory. Studios are a perfect example. So are used car lots.
I saw so many designers and their designs for Macys come and go it was laughable. Most of which couldn't build a matchbox. Thats where I come in. One shitforbrains had the audacity to tell me his designs would revolutionize the industry. Unfortunately, Granite was not only heavy, but expensive as well. Macys issued a stop order. His next design was even funnier. A round steel DJ console "garage" built around a building column. He wanted 2 sets of QUAD bifold CURVED doors to enclose the curved console on wheels. No problem. Took a month to detail. However, to keep them in line, they needed a curved rubber threshold with a groove for the bottom door pin. I tried to warn him. He laughed. When it came time to pull the console out of the "garage", the casters at the ends of the console simply turned outwards when they hit the curved threshold. Ever try to move something with wheels facing two opposite directions? $32,000 for a console garage and they couldn't get it out. And there were FOUR stores with them!! For a week. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I wonder where he works now.
Unfuckingbelievable egos.
My ex boss had two business's. NEW storefixture manufactureing, and USED store fixtures. He built his used store fixture business from last years designers brainfarts that his OTHER business built prior. We used to have a standing joke in the shop. This years designers were our job security.
But I saw the height of designer absurdity last night. On one of the episodes of "Rides". Hahahahahaha..good grief. Had a 12,000watt audio system in a car that you couldn't take on the road. Talk about designer brainfarts. Show "car" indeed. Coffee? I don need no stinkin coffee nor a chill pill.

 

[frederic]

For some reason, I'm picturing "pimp my ride" folks standing in front of macy's, laughing :-D

 

[brzilian]

Rick,

You are an A$$ and need help. If you cant say something in a civil, adult manner than KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

You also need to understand the distinction between "stylists", and Industrial Designers. I happen to be the later.

That furniture collection is among the Top 5 best selling products for the company I worked for two years in a row. The mechanism was also used in a mobile computer cart which won a Consumers Digest "Best Buy" award last year.

http://www.bushindustries.com/pr/consumersdigest/consumersdigest.htm

I actually give a damn about something more than looks when I do my work.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

You are an A$$ and need help. If you cant say something in a civil, adult manner than KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.

Fuck off. I don't give a damn if you designed the space shuttle and what brownie buttons you get from industry, I have a right to my opinion REGARDLESS.

BTW, if you REALLY read my previous reply, you will see that I said NOTHING
in regards to YOU or your designs period.

 

[brzilian]

Fuck off.

Well done - spoken like a true ape.

I don't give a damn if you designed the space shuttle and what brownie buttons you get from industry, I have a right to my opinion REGARDLESS.

Opinion?

Sounds more like a chip on your shoulder, sour grapes or whatever you want to call it.

Time to see a shrink. You have serious misplaced anger issues.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Well done - spoken like a true ape.

I don't deny evolution. However, while I walk on two legs, you on the other hand, still leave a slime trail.

Sounds more like a chip on your shoulder, sour grapes or whatever you want to call it.

I don't call it anything except laughing experience. LOTS of it too, expecially dealing with inept and egotistical designers who think THEY are original. Give me a fucking break. A box is a box is a box, no matter how many ways you build it or decorate it or call it something else

Time to see a shrink. You have serious misplaced anger issues.

Time to stop acting like one. You have serious misplaced occupation desires. AND a blooming case of BI-POLAR disorder to boot.

 

[c7sus]

Trippy discussion.

I'm just now building a tabletop over a 1/3 section of a huge corner desk. The original carcase is 24" x 48".

I wanted my audio mons higher, first was thinking 6"--- leaves enough space for CD's under the riser. Scrap from cutting out the riser left me the option to go up 9" overall, so I went for it. The video monitor is A LOT higher than I am used to. But I like it that my audio mons are very near ear-height now. Plus, I made the desktop big enough (72" w x 38" d) to hold a U-20 keyboard, 1402 mixer, and best of all my Klipsch 2.2's!!! I had to build a pair of legs to go under the very back of the setup 'cause it was a little shakey. It's rock-solid now.

Still needs some finishing touches. I made the top from a piece of shop birch I had been using for a workbench, and an 18" x 96" rip of another sheet of birch shop ply. So I'm less than $75 materials so far. I'm thinking about getting some 2" Panduit across the back to put speaker cables into, and a little trough for audio cables behind the Mackie.

 

[brzilian]

Trippy discussion.

I'm just now building a tabletop over a 1/3 section of a huge corner desk. The original carcase is 24" x 48".

I wanted my audio mons higher, first was thinking 6"--- leaves enough space for CD's under the riser. Scrap from cutting out the riser left me the option to go up 9" overall, so I went for it. The video monitor is A LOT higher than I am used to. But I like it that my audio mons are very near ear-height now. Plus, I made the desktop big enough (72" w x 38" d) to hold a U-20 keyboard, 1402 mixer, and best of all my Klipsch 2.2's!!! I had to build a pair of legs to go under the very back of the setup 'cause it was a little shakey. It's rock-solid now.

Still needs some finishing touches. I made the top from a piece of shop birch I had been using for a workbench, and an 18" x 96" rip of another sheet of birch shop ply. So I'm less than $75 materials so far. I'm thinking about getting some 2" Panduit across the back to put speaker cables into, and a little trough for audio cables behind the Mackie.

How high off the ground is the desk? Any kind of keyboard instrument should be in a position where the keybed is no higher than 25"-26" off the ground. If it is higher, you could be hurting your wrists if you are not compensating by elevating your chair as well.

I really do not think it is wise to place the monitor over 33" off the ground, but if you have to, I sugest you angle it down so the screen is oriented torwards your face.

 

[frederic]

Why doesn't that surpise me ?

What, having a plasma cutter? I have to admit its by far the most useful metal working too.

I can cut with it (up to 5/8" thick steel too), I've even welded with it!

Plasma cutters have all their cutting heat flying out the nozzle. The nozzle itself doesn't get terribly hot. Certainly hot enough to burn your hand, but not wood.

So if you need to cut out an oddly shaped piece, instead of struggling with a small-blade sabre saw (electric or air) and deal with all the inaccuracies of holding it with your hand, then following up with several hours of grinding to get the part right, you can make a woodent template out of MDF exactly 1/2" larger than you want, place the plasma cutter tip inside the MDF pattern, pull the trigger, and cut out a perfect piece. And make about 20 before the MDF is charred enough it starts falling apart.

A friend of mine has a CNC-router table in his shop for making fancy headboards and things like that. So every once in a while I'll design my part on "Visio", half in larger than the actual part I need, export it as a DXF and take it over there with a 4x8 piece of MDF. Make a template, come home and cut away.

I've made a lot of interesting brackets and stuff like that for various project vehicles.

In fact, in a few weeks, I'll be making a full bracket set for my 500cid twin-turbo stroker, for the dual alternator, PS pump, dual AC compressor, etc. Stuff you can't buy anywhere else. Make it in a day!

And to think for the last 20 years I've hand cutting, and hand filing such parts. ACK!

 

[pdlstl]

Plasma cutters sure make a mighty fine clean cut!

I have a traditional oxy/acetylene rig and would love to have a plasma cutter!

 

[brzilian]

After reading Rick's bablings in the thread of the 20 something guy with the really nice studio, I felt it necessary to add to this one.

Rick,

Because I have found a new mission on this forum to really PISS YOU OFF and don't give a F$%K about your sorry ass life, I will give you some more info about my career to date.

That furniure collection I did for Office Max as well as a few more for both Office Max and Office Depot were done before I even turned 26 (I am 29 now).

The Target gift registry kiosk was done before my 24th birthday and by then I had also done work for Universal Studios Orlando.

Take some time to chew on that and realize you don't have to be a 60 year old bitter man to say you've accomplished something in your life.

 

[RICK FITZPATRICK]

Because I have found a new mission on this forum to really PISS YOU OFF and don't give a F$%K about your sorry ass life, I will give you some more info about my career to date.

Heres a quarter. Call someone who cares.

 

[thane1200]

Hhmmmmmm........I've always found that Fitz honestly answers my questions and gives good advice.