City Hall (WIP)

I'm currently working on a model of City Hall using photos that I had taken a few days ago.

Long time no see

Its been a while since I have been posting on this blog.  I've been busy with some school-related matters.  I hope everyone had a nice holiday break and New Years celebration.

You're probably wondering what I have planned for 2012.  I have a few ideas of what is in store for this year, as well as trying a couple of new ideas.  One of the new ideas is creating aerial video of the city using a video camera and a remote control helicopter.  There isn't many (or probably no) aerial footage of the city.  I'm currently looking into finding a decent enough helicopter that can help with the process.

Working on a new project

I noticed something for quite some time whenever I search for a business on Google Maps.  There doesn't appear to be any detailed images showing the businesses.  I decided that I should not only create maps of the buildings, but also upload images with my 18 megapixel camera to help create some realism for the user to see.

I've done one in the past with my phone camera, but the quality isn't as decent as my main camera.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NE7ippXu0dR9ScCdR7GP15YFMDEX9XGIMKPogM20Siw?hl=en-US

As a side note, please visit my DeviantArt page for more images!
http://vernancelet.deviantart.com/

My next project

Here is an image of my next project.  I obtained some information of a mini blueprint of the group of buildings.

Busy like a bee

I've been very busy for the past month.  I'm currently taking classes at SCC, including doing some work for the club.  I've been also going to meetings.

I'm planning to work on my next building project sometime soon.

Town is planning to pave down part of Mill Dam Road for a bicycle route and nature corner

The city is planning to build a new center and bicycle route down in Mill Dam Road.  Because the Starrs Cave Center is owned by the state and not city, they are wanting to build a new one in order for the city to own it.  They also want to build a large road leading to this center.  Problem is that there are houses there that have been there for more than 40 years and that it wouldn't be in much use because of how far back it is in there.  The city cannot afford with building something like that.  Many of the people in the area are pissed off with the situation and the person who is ahead of the deal is one of the supervisors at Starrs Cave.  The project suppose to start either 2012 or 2013.

Update:  I was told that they have been trying to convince the entire area to do this for the past 6 years.  The big problem is that they could vote on kicking everyone out regardless if they didn't want it or not.  It reminds me of the time when the city tore down the entire Manor area in order to sell the land to a company to build a mini mall, even though they changed their minds in building it there.  The lot is still empty and the asbestos is still there on the property ever since the buildings were torn down.

I wonder if the cause was that the property tax is high and the city has strict rules that buildings have to apply to.  After all, union businesses are excluded out of property taxes, like Wal-Mart.

What the city and Starrs Cave center should concentrate on is the agent orange that is in both the cave, the water, and in areas around Skunk River.  Agent Orange isn't something people want to mess with and it shouldn't be ignored.

Burlington Mixing Company building is complete; problems with it

Well, the model is complete.  However, its too big to upload to warehouse.  So instead, I uploaded the file in this link for you to see yourselves.

Because of these errors of file size of being too big, I decided to reduce the detail of my next models, but at the same time have some form of detail added.

Sketchup file