Laborless Weekend

This weekend, I had a few minutes to put some more stuff together on the Globe.  Although, I did spend most of the three day weekend watching reruns of Parks and Rec and mlb.tv while eating an assortment of good foods.  From what I did manage to get done: the second floor, aside from the paneling has been essentially completed.  Well, the structure itself is almost completed, because the third floor is almost a replica of the second floor.  But the massive amount of information that is now stored in this model has slowed my computer down when I try to work on it.  This also implies that all the big stuff is done, and so tedious details is probably the best description for most of what is left to be done.



In an effort to procrastinate these little complex details, I have started yet another project.  This time, it's a simple house.  Kind of...I wasn't going to put pictures up, but words are starting to fail me now :

The plan for this house was to have a Red Cedar exterior, and that still may or may not happen. The big thing that is unique here is that there is a tree/forest patch in the middle of the house.  Like an enclosed piece of land.  There is not going to be foundation in the square and will instead go straight through into the soil.  This may will cause chaos in the construction phase of a house, but that is not my problem at the moment.  The stairs will run adjacent to this indoor courtyard, and go up to the second floor, allowing the tree to get up to about 20' high.

Since it is hard for me to explain with words right now:

  The tree/forest patch will be in the middle of the house, and the height goes through the second floor.  The roof of this house will be interesting, and I have about 4 ideas running through my head on how to go about it.  But that is for a different day.  This project is an exercise  to flex my 'creativity', something that I really need to demonstrate in my portfolio.  My technical skills are good, but my artistic abilities need some tuning.  So in an effort to be more artistic, I have made two purchases:

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

Bamboo Pad

From personal experience, I can assure myself that this will be extremely frustrating.  These bamboo pads have always both fascinated me, and made me want to throw things for not being able to use it well.  They both shipped out today from Amazon, and they will probably both be here next week sometime.  So I have time to finish the Globe and the house by the time these come.  At least, that's the goal.  Eye on the prize....right?