Taking Pleasure in work

Dearest friends,

I'm in the computer lab at Meyerson right now, rather than out on Meyerson's patio for Happy Hour. I'm in some pleasureable zone where I'm enjoying all these different design programs. My new favorite is Sketch-up, seen here ---->
You can design cities and buildings all to scale relatively easily. I only know the basics so far but we're going to learn the in-depth stuff to do building features and whatnot next week.

Last week we used Illustrator to redesign a block to include townhouses, trees, parking spaces, and a park. Again, this design is pretty primitive but you get the idea.

In my Planning Theory class we used Illustrator to do more conceptual maps of cities around the world. Each person copied images from Google Earth and pasted them together as the base map in Photoshop. Then we put that map into Illustrator and drew the land uses on top of it. It was pretty time-consuming but also pretty cool. All of the maps used the same color scheme so they're easy to compare and have aesthetic unity. The map primarily shows land uses - urbanized area, water, agriculture and mining, natural land. The red lines are the primary highways.

Anyway, I have more to finish in Sketch-up and on GIS maps tonight. My parents are getting here around 9, so I hope to be done and home by then...probably not going to happen. Which means I'll be swamped on Sunday. But it's ok. It should be a really fun weekend no matter what.

I just wanted to share some of what I'm making with you. It's cool to me, sorry if it's not cool to you. I love you if you're reading this.

<3

Kristin