Damian Holmes

I recently went back to Australia for one month due to the five year rule in China. Whilst in Australia I found it interesting how when you return to your own country that you can see opportunities for ideas and development that otherwise would have alluded you if you where living there. This can also [...]

As apart of my setting goals for 2010 I set 5 words – one of which was Simple.
Simple Ideas. Simple Concepts. Simple Processes and Simplify.
Tonight I decided to Simplify my web reading. In 2009, I read too much business news, business trends, social media trends which often was great for small talk but often [...]

Recently, I went to my local Xinjiang Noodle shop for lunch. I ordered my usual and sat down inside on a stool. As I sat there looking around at the full tables, I wondered why is it so many people come here. Now to explain the scene, Xinjiang Noodle shops often have three or four [...]

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Seems shanghai tweeple are starting to use foursquare more after a prompt on twitter by @chijs last sunday and when Scott Ballantyne(shanghai twitterville member) mentioned that it may be used for his coffee – Flying Turtle Coffee.
So what is FourSquare? Its a social networking + game play in your city(or cities) website. Not [...]

Yesterday, Dreamhost went down and my main landscape architecture site worldlandscapearchitect.com (gets 15000/month visitors) is still down and its on a Virtual Private Server which I pay good money for every month. I have been with Dreamhost since 2006 and have used them hosting and domain registration for 90% of my domain names, but recently [...]

Last Thursday, I attended the GIGA Print presentation given by Mario Van der Meulen of SGTH Designs. It was an interesting presentation about the Print industry and how as graphic and print designers can be more effective in design. Some of the talk was doom and gloom about the environment but it focused more on [...]

I am currently working on a website for my Landscape Architecture.Urban Design & Site Furniture Design Studio called SUSTAIN.DS.  Hopefully, I will have finished in English by the end of this week and launched next week. Then the Chinese version will follow the week after. Wish me luck.

Sustainable Sites is an initiative with a interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.

Jason King is a Senior Associate at Greenworks and an enthusiastic landscape [...]

Grumblings have started at the New York Post about the escalating maintenance costs ($500,000+ per acre) of the Highline. The newly opened stage 1 of the Highline project has become too successful with somewhere between 3-4 times as many visitors as expected and with more people comes more maintenance = higher costs. To cover [...]

Just read Chris Grygiel of Seattlepi.com blog post about the new tree measure in Seattle that could grant developers exemption for retaining trees if the trees preclude or prohibit the development of the site. This new tree protection measure seems a ham-fisted attempt at protecting trees which are in current developments (houses, offices, etc) [...]