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Earlier this year, as part of a big landmark birthday present to myself, I spent 10 days on the east coast traveling to New York City, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.  I had never been, and am a bit of an "information junkie" and was desperate to see the hundreds of places I saw on TV, and some of the most famous places in our history as a country.  Some of those places we even have as buildings for Poser!  It was crazy to me to be standing in front of a building that only month earlier, I had put on the front page of our website.

One of those buildings is Carpenter's Hall, made for Poser by Meshbox Design.

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Meshbox Design's Carpenter's Hall is a 3D representation of the historic Philadelphia building that housed the first Continental Congress of the American Revolution. It is a two story building with a steeple - each room is completely furnished. It is based on photographs of the original building but may not be historically accurate. Includes props: chair, flagpole, bench, table.

The picture is my vacation photo...looks pretty similar to me!  Check it out, along with the entire Meshbox Design 4th of July category!






















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I have a lot of stuff on my desk.  We could do a whole series on just the Poser memorabilia on my desk.  When we moved, people kept coming by my old desk and commenting on the amount of stuff I had piling into boxes.  (To be fair, I am a collector in my real life too.)  A lot of years worth of software boxes, manuals, autographed books, comic books, etc. lined my shelves and to me became a badge of pride of the accomplishments of the community.  I've been here a long time and also inherited a lot of things a long the way and stuff just seemed to amass around me. Now I have every version of Poser released collected together showing off the mind blowing progress of digital beings while trinkets and clippings aplenty dance around them.  Poser truly is the software of 1001 uses.  Poser has been featured in the New York Times, The San Jose Mercury, and been used regularly in Maxim magazine and USA Today and I've snipped everything I can, like an addict scrapbooker determined to document this wonderful world of art.  I've attended trade shows and been told by movie studios that Poser was their "little secret" to quick previsualization and then laughed when James was used by the doctors in Nip/Tuck and the Dork solved his balding problem in the informercials on my screen.  We've come a long way baby! 

What about your Poser collections?  Do you keep all your boxes and display them with pride?  How much do you remember?  Did you hear about the Swanky Voodoo Party at Siggraph in New Orleans with Curious Labs and MetaStream?  Did you get one of the benders or fake CL tattoos we gave away the next year?  Do you have Poser 5 Demystified or the Intro to Poser DVD?  How many Poser books do you own?  Who is your favorite author?  Were you one of the lucky ones to get one of the hundreds of Poser 5 boxes the staff signed as a thank you or prize?  Do you have any random poser tidbit that you treasure?  Tell us!