Sketch Up

MODEL 3D Modeling of the World via Google

Apparently, most of the Bay Area's urban centers have been modeled in 3D, now visible on Google Earth.

Made with Google's Building Maker modeling tool: 1. select a city, 2. make a building, 3. save your building, 4. see it in Google Earth. Additionally, 3D modeling is available with Google's free SketchUp tool, which can be used to draw up floorplans, furniture, houses, parks, whatever you want. Another thing to play with.

Two Months

TIME To Waste

Currently in between stages of life, I've found myself with the rare opportunity of having two selfish months to myself, with few or no real responsibilities. So far, I've used my time haphazardly, lacking structure, consistency, and accountability; dabbling here and there. Running, cooking, sketching, stretching, and other present tense verbs marked by leisure and consumption. If I had the time to do these things 3 months ago while working 3 jobs, volunteering, and taking classes, I think I would've died of joy. Instead, I'm spoiled with boredom. Guess that's why jam tastes better on plain toast. Or nutella on crepes. Or cookies with milk! Mmmmm.

Gonna try, for the sake of meaning.

1. Volunteering: at Earthworks Community Farm & The Newport Bay Conservancy. [Both beautiful places to visit.]

2. Sharing: of ideas, stories, meals, and stuff I make.

3. Conversing: yep.

What would you do if you had two months to spare?

Al Jazeera

NEWS Al Jazeera Live Stream

Hopefully civil unrest will work toward better days.

Antipodes

BOOK Heaven & Hell by Aldous Huxley

The Tasmanian Tiger, a now-extinct marsupial once found in Australia.

Short book in pdf on the nature and significance of visionary experience.

"If you go to New South Wales, you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos. You do not invent these creatures any more than you invent marsupials... A man cannot control them. All he can do is to go to the mental equivalent of Australia and look around him." But Australia is so far away!

Huh?

LECTURE Is Sustainable Food and Agriculture the Future?

Yes, No? Not to mention, how? I wonder what the non-experts think, given the current economic system and climate we live in where price is assumed to be THE indicator of what we should or should not do. Should we rely on price, cultural trends, or our personal feelings to decide whether sustainable food and agriculture matters to us? What if face value prices, trends, and feelings are distorted via subsidies, marketing, and peer pressures? How is a non-expert supposed to sort through these variables to make a good decision? Too many questions, sorry!