sorry i haven’t updated in… forever.  I have excuses… i’m just not going to list them here.

So i have a new apartment… i have yet to move into it officially.  So time spent there is very similar to camping out

i’ll be happier once i have moved… but somehow before i move into an apartment i get very concerned… “what if there are lots of roaches?”  “what if the plumbing explodes?” is it buyers remorse?  fear of my parent’s approval?  fear of pests?  who knows!

anyway… expect a house warming party sometime once everyone gets back in philly :)  I have a bottle opener… so you can bring wine.

and now for some advertisement?

I started reading this at the pool this morning.  Its short and sweet, perfect for reading between lifeguard shifts.  Its about an acquaintance’s experiences in a (probably Philadelphia) inner city school.  So, if you ever need to write a sociology paper, kill time at the pool, feel like reading something, or want to support a young author… grab this book.

i am less angry now.  Mostly i’m just sleepy… but i just want smart house to be over… and i don’t want to put people into my renders.  : )

every time i pass the art museum people are taking their picture with Rocky.  I’ve started to wonder how many pictures there are of people with that statue.

it makes me want to create a video of all of these still images with rocky perfectly aligned and so just the people change.  It’s especially funny when you consider the poses everyone makes around this statue.

i brought the archetects into the labs to sort out a camera move.  They loved the wireframe views of maya and had me take a screenshot of it (i wasn’t going to render one out)  if you think about it… that is pretty cool.

i didn’t get much done today.  Home to cook beans for 2 hours and do laundry.  (and take apart a bike!)

It’s not looking bad… needs doors, chimnys, and then plant life & landscaping.  Oh, and texture everything…  and maybe spend more than 10 seconds on lighting it.

p.s.  Compositng book + messing with shops/vops= shading in maya with the hypershade a lot easier.  I know what i’m doing now (sort of) and why it works/how to make it work (sort of).  Digm kids should read that book on acceptance into the program (me included).

I’m afraid i’ve been neglecting this a little bit.  So a long blog about the past week…..

Last saturday i went with my parents to the Barnes Foundation Museum

A man made his fortune in pharmaceuticals then used the money to buy art and teach students about it.  Great art, probably the best collection i’ve ever seen.  Problem–He arranged them into these wall sets and then added weird metal work & furniture around them to help you determine the forms in the paintings?  It just seems cluttered.  So cluttered you don’t even notice that there is a Picasso in the corner.  Really a weird museum.

This trip made me realize that i really like Demuth and he might be the current favorite artist

I’m still doing that smart house stuff.  One of the guys just sent me some old photos i thought i’d share.

I thought it was pretty cool.

she finally got her way (and picked a color).

yes.  Mentaly ray sun & sky.  Probably just to show people tomorrow night.  I gotta figure out how to make it less stressful on the system, i’m crashing maya already.  There are really nice railings that i had to put on a different layer.  I’ll get it sorted out.  It’s probably the brackets, which aren’t that big of a deal.  Oh welllllllll.